448. THE HUMAN VOICE. Among all Maxims. 1. Blind men must not undertake to the wonderful varieties of artificial instru- judge of colors. 2. Gamesters and race-horses nevments, which discourse excellent music, er last long. 3. Forgiveness and smiles are the where shall we find one that can be compared best revenge. 4. They, are not our best friends, to the human voice? And where can we who praise us to our faces. 5. An honest man's find an instrument comparable to the human word is as good as his bond. 6. Never få for mind? upon whose stops the real musician, praise; it is not worth the bait. 7. None but a the poet, and the orator, sometimes lays his good man can become a perfect orator. 8. Cultivate a love of truth, and cleave to it wiu all your hands, and avails himself of the entire com- heart. 9. Female delicacy is the best prezervative pass of its magnificent capacities! Oh! the of female honor. 10. Idleness is the 1tfuge of length, the breadth, the height, and the depth weak minds, and the holliday of fools. of music and eloquence! They are high as heaven, deep as hell, and broad as the uni

verse.

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are, of IMAGINATION-all compact:
One-sees more devils-than vast hell can hold;
That-is the MADMAN: the LOVER, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty-in a brow of Egypt:
The POET's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, [HEAVEN;
Doth glance from HEAVEN-to earth, from earth-to
And, as IMAGINATION-bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen,
Forms them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing,
A local habitation, and a name.

The Trine in Man. There are three

things of which human beings consist, the soul, the mind and the body; the inmost is the soul, the mediate is the mind, and the ultimate the body: the first is that which receives life from Him, who is life itself; the second, is the sphere of the activities of that life; and the third, is the medium through which those activities are manifested: but it should be remembered, that there is, as the apostle says, a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."

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Varieties. 1. Nature-makes no emendations; she labors for all: her's is not mo449. CICERO AND DEMOSTHENES. An saic work. 2. The more there is prosaic in rator, addressing himself more to the pas- orators, poets and artists, the less are they sions, naturally has much passionate ardor; natural; the less do they resemble the copiwhilst another, possessing an elevation of ous streams of the fountain. 3. The more style and majestic gravity, is never cold, there is of progression, the more there is of though he has not the same vehemence: truth, and nature; and the more extensive, in this respect do these great orators differ. general, durable, and noble is the effect: Demosthenes-abounds in concise sublimity; thus is formed the least plant, and the most Cicero,-in diffuseness: the former, on ac- exalted man. 4. Nature is everywhere simcount of his destroying, and consuming ev-ilar to herself; she never acts arbitrarily, erything by his violence, rapidity, strength, and vehemence, may be compared to a hurricane, or thunderbolt: the latter, to a wide extended conflagration, spreading in every direction, with a great, constant, and irresistible flame.

Anecdote. Envy and Jealousy. Colonel
Thornton, of the British army, could not bear
to hear the Americans praised. When he
was at Charleston, S. C., some ladies were
eulogising Washington; to which he replied,
with a scornful air, "I should be very glad to
get a sight of your Col. Washington; I have
heard much talk about him, but have never
seen him." "Had you looked behind you, at
the battle of Cowpens," rejoined one of the
ladies, "
you might easily have enjoyed that
pleasure."

With illustration simple, yet profound, and with unfaltering zeal
He spake from a warm heart, and made even cold hearts feel;
This--is eloquence-'tis the intense,

Impassioned fervor-of a mind, deep fraught

With native energy, when soul, and sense

Burst forth, embodied in the burning thought;
When look, emotion, tone, and all combine;
When the whole man-is eloquent with mind;
A form that comes not to the call or quest,
But from the gifted soul, and the deep feeling breast.
The farmers patient care-and toil
Are oftener wznting-than the soil,

never contrary to her laws: the same wis dom and power produce all varieties, agreea. ble to one law, one will. Either all things are subject to the law of order, or nothing is Home! how that blessed word—thrills the ear' '

In it-what recollections blend!

It tells of childhood's scenes so dear,

And speaks-of many a cherished friend
O! through the world, where'er we re
Though souls be pure-and lips be kind,
The heart-with fondness--turns to home,
Still turns to those-it left behind.
The bird, that soars to yonder skies,

Though nigh to heaven, still seems unblessed;
It leaves them, and with rapture flies
Downward-to its own much-loved nest.
Though beauteous scenes-may meet its view
And breezes blow-from balmy groves,
With wing untired—and bosom true,
It turns to that dear spot it loves.
When heaven-shall bid this soul depart,
This form-return to kindred earth,
May the last throb, which swells my heart.
Heave, where it started into birth.
And should affection-shed one tear,
Should friendship-linger round my tomb;
The tribute will be doubly dear,

When given by those of "home, sweet home."

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450. POETRY-may be written in rhyme, Maxims. 1. It is better to do and not promor blank verse. Rhyme is the correspond- ise, than to promise and not perform. 2. A benefit ance of sounds, in the ending of two (or is a common tie between the giver and receiver. mere successive or alternate words or sylla-3. The consciousness of well doing is an ample re'bles of two or more lines, forming a couplet ward. 4. As benevolence is the most sociable of or triplet: see the various examples given. all virtues, so it is the most extensive. 5. Do not Rythmus, in the poetic art, means the rela- postpone until tomorrow, what ought to be done tive duration of the time occupied in pro- to-day. 6. Without a friend, the world is but a nouncing the syllables; in the art of music wilderness. 7. The more we know our hearts, the it signifies the relative duration of the sound, less shall we be disposed to trust in ourselves. & that enters into the musical composition: Obedience is better than sacrifice, and is inseperasee measures of speech and song. bly wedded to happiness. 9. We should not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the path of danger. 10. He doeth much, that doeth a thing well.

Lo! the poor Indian,-whose untutored mind,
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind:
His soul proud SCIENCE-never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk, or milky way;
Yet, simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humble heaven;-
Some safer world-in depth of wood embraced,
Some happier island-in the watery waste;
Where slaves, once more, their native land behold,
NO FIENDS torment-no CHRISTIANS thirst for gold.
451. SKIPS AND SLIDES. By closely ob-
serving the movements of the voice, when
under the perfect command of the mind, you
will see that it changes its pitch, by leaps of
ɔne or more notes, in passing from word to
word, and sometimes from syllable to sylla-
ble, and also slides upwards and downwards;
which skips and slides are almost infinitely
diversified, expressing all the shades of tho't
and feeling, and playing upon the minds of
the listeners, with a kind of supernatural
power, the whole range of tunes from grave
to gay, from gentle to severe. The worlds
of mind and matter are full of music and

oratory.

Even age itself-is cheered with music;

It wakes a glad remembrance of our youth,
Calls back past joys, and warms us into transports.
Nature is the glass-reflecting God,
As, by the sea-reflected is the sun.
Too glorious to be gazed on-in his sphere.
The night

Hath been to me-a more familiar face
Than that of man; and, in her starry shade
Of dim, and solitary loveliness,

I learned the language-of another world.
Parting-they seemed to tread upon the air,
Twin roses, by the zephyr blown apart,
Only to meet again--more close, and share
The inward fragrance-of each other's heart.
Nothing- --is made out of Nothing.
Good, in his "Book of Nature," contends, that
there is no absurdity, in the supposition, of God
ereating something-out of nothing; and he main-
tains, that the proposition, conveying this idea, is
only relatively absurd, and not absolutely. But it
is absolutely absurd. When God said, "Let there
be light, and there was light," light cannot be said
to have been created out of nothing, but from God
himself; not out of God, but by his Divine Will,
through his Divine Truth. So, we may conceive,
that God, by his Will, made atmospheric matter,
and then created it in form.

Enou to live in tempest; die in port.

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Anecdote. Moro, duke of Milan, having displayed before the foreign embassadors his magnificence and his riches, which excelled those of every other prince, said to them: Has a man, possessed of so much wealth and prosperity, anything to desire in this world?"" One thing only," said one of them, a nail to fix the wheel of fortune." disgraced society, that of swearing admits of Swearing. Of all the crimes, that ever the least palliation. be derived from it; and nothing but perverseNo possible benefit can ness and depravity of human nature, would valence, that by many, it is mistaken for a ever have suggested it; yet such is its prefashionable acquirement, and considered, by unreflecting persons, as indicative of energy

and decision of character.

those who are in the love, and under the in-
Varieties. 1. Duty sounds sweetly, to
fluence of truth and goodness: its path does
not lead thro' thorny places, and over cheer-
less wastes; but winds pleasantly, amid
green meadows and shady groves. 2. A new
truth is, to some, as impossible of discovery,
as the new world was to the faithless cotem-
poraries of Columbus; they do not believe in
such a thing; and more than this, they will
not believe in it: yet they will sit in judg-
ment on those who do believe in such a con-
traband article, and condemn them without
mercy.

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,
While I look upward to thee. It would seem
As if God-pour'd thee from his "hollow hand,"
And hung his bow upon thine awful front;
And spoke, in that loud voice, which seem'd to him
Who dwelt in Patmos-for his Saviour's sake,
"The sound of many waters;" and had bade
Thy flood-to chronicle the ages back,
And notch His centuries-in the eternal rocks.

Deep-calleth unto deep. And what are we,
That hear the question-of that voice sublime?
O! what are all the notes, that ever rung
From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side.
Yea, what is all the riot-man can make
In his short life, to thy unceasing roar!
And yet, bold babbler what art thou—to Him
Who drown'd a worca, and heaped the waters fat
Above its loftiest mountains?—a light wave,
That breaks, and whispers-of its Maker's might.

Say, what can Chloe want? she wants a heart

452. OBSERVATIONS. No one can ever |
vecome a good reader, or speaker, by reading
in a book; because what is thus acquired
is more from thought than from feeling;
and of course, has less of freedom in it;
and we are, from the necessity of the case,
more or less constrained and mechanical.
What we hear, enters more directly into the
affectuous part of the mind, than what we see,
and becomes more readily a part of ourselves,
i. e. becomes conjoined instead of being ad-
joined: relatively, as the food which we eat,
digests and is appropriated, and a plaster
that is merely stuck on the body. Thus, we
can see a philosophic reason why faith is
said to come by hearing, and that we walk
by faith, and not by sight: i. e. from love,
that casts out the fear that hath torment; that
fear which enslaves body and mind, instead
of making both free.

Ever distinguish substances-from sound;
There is, in liberty, what gods approve;
And only men, like gods, have taste to share;
There is, in liberty, what pride perverts,
To serve sedition, and perplex command.
True liberty-leaves all things free, but guilt;
And fetters everything-but art, and virtue;
False liberty-holds nothing bound, but power,
And lets loose-every tie, that strengthens law.
Home-is man's ark, when trouble springs;
When gathering tempests-shade his morrow;
And woman's love-the bird, that brings

His peace-branch--o'er a flood of sorrow.
453. CONQUERING-LOVE. To learn al-
most any art, or science, appears arduous, or
difficult, at first; but if we have a heart for
any work, it soon becomes comparatively
easy. To make a common watch, or a watch
worn in a ring; to sail over the vast ocean,
&c., seems at first, almost impossible; yet
they are constantly practiced. The grand
secret of simplifying a science is analyzing
it; in beginning with what is easy, and pro-
ceeding to the combinations, difficult, most
difficult: by this method, miracles may be
wrought the hill of science must be ascend-
ed step by step.

Conceptions. Would it not be well for metaphysicians to distinguish between the conception of abstract truth, and the conception of past perception, by calling the latter-mental perception, as contradistinguished from all other? Anecdote. Rouge. A female, praising the beautiful color, used by the artist on her miniature, was told by him, that he did not doubt she was a woman of good taste; for they both bought their rouge at the same shop. True philosophy discerns

A ray of heavenly light--gilding all forms
Terrestri il,-in the vast, the minute,
The unambiguous footsteps of a God,
Who gives his lustre-to an insect's wing,

And wheels his throne, upon the rolling worlds.

Maxims. 1. A people's education-is a na tion's best defence. 2. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. 3. Who aims at excellence, will be above mediocrity; and who aims at mediocrity, will fall short of it. 4. Forbearance is a domestic jewel. 5. The affection of parents is best shown to their children, by teaching them what is good and true. 6. Feeble are the efforts in which the heart has no share. 7. By taking in passing it over-he is superior. 8. Loveliness revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but needs not the aid of ornament; but is, when wa adorned, adorned the most. 9. No one ever dul, nor ever can, do any one an injury, without doing a greater injury to himself. 10. It is better not to know the truth, than to know it, and not do it.

Pursuit of Knowledge. He, that en larges his curiosity after the works of nature, demonstrably multiplies the inlets to happiness; therefore, we should cherish ardor in the pursuit of useful knowledge, and remember, that a blighted spring makes a barren year, and that the vernal flowers, however beautiful and gay, are only intended by nature as preparatives to autumnal fruits.

Varieties. 1. Business letters should al-
ways be written with great clearness and per-
spicuity: every paragraph should be so
plain, that the dullest fellow cannot mistake
it, nor be obliged to read it twice, to under-
stand it. 2. Lawyers and their clients re-
mind one of two rows of persons at a fire;
one-passing full buckets, the other return-
ing empty ones. 3. The bump of self-esteem
is so prominent on some men's heads, that
they can't keep their hats on in a windy day,
4. A crow will fly at the rate of 20 miles an
hour; a hawk, 40; and an eagle 80. 5.
The heaviest fetter, that ever weighed down
the limbs of a captive, is as the robe of the
gossamer, compared with the pledge of a
man of honor. 6. An envious person, wax-
eth lean with the fatness of his neighbor. 7,
Nature-supplies the raw material, and edu
cation-is the manufacturer.
The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego,
And leap, exulting, like the bounding roe.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks;
It still looks home, and short excursions makes;
But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks.
Come, gentle Spring, etherial mildness, come,
And, from the bosom of yon dropping cloud.
(While music wakes around,) vailed in a shower
Of shadowing roses, on the plains descend.
The man, that dares traduce, because he can,
With safety to himself, is not a man.

Slander-meets no regards from noble minds;
Only the base-believe what the base utter.
If I lose mine honor, I lose myself;
Mine honor-is my life; both grow in one;
Take honor from me-and my life is done.
He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again.

454. INFLECTIONS AND INTONATIONS. Maxims. 1. The wise man thinks he knows The author is perfectly satisfied, that most but little; the fool thinks he knows it all. 2. He, of his predecessors have depended entirely who cannot govern himself, cannot govern others. too much upon the inflections, to produce 3. He is a poor wretch, whose Lopes are confined variety, instead of upon the intonations of to this world. 4. He, who employs himself well, the voice the former, invariably makes mecan never want for something to do. 5. Umbrage chanical readers and speakers; while the should never be taken, where offence was never intended. 6. Deride not the unfortunate. 7. Ia latter, being founded in nature, makes natural ones: the one is of the head, and is the conversation, avoid the extremes of talkativeness and silence. 8. Lawyers' gowns are often lined result of thought and calculation; and the with the willfulness of their clients. 9. Good book other of the heart, and is the spontaneous ef are the only paper currency, that is better than fusion of the affections: the former spreads silver or gold. 10. No man may be both accuser, a tail before the mind; the latter takes it and judge. 11. At every trifle-scorn to take offence. away. Is it not so? Choose ye. Nature Anecdote. A Rose. A blind man, having knows a great deal more than art; listen to a shrew for his wife, was told by one of his her teachings and her verdict. friends, that she was a rose. He replied, "1 do not doubt it; for I feel the thorns daily."

Laconics.

456. THE PASSIONS AND ACTIONS. The 1. All men, possessed of real numan mind we contemplate under two power, are upright and honest: craft is but the grand divisions, called Will and Understand-substitute of power. 2. To answer wit by reason, ing the former is the receptacle, or conti- is like trying to hold an eel by the tail. 3. Frenent, of our passions, emotions, affections;quent intercourse often forms such a similarity, the latter-of our thoughts. To attend to that we not only assure a mental likeness, but contract some resemblance in voice and features. the workings of mind, to trace the power that external objects have over it, to discern 4. The more ideas included in our own words, and the more cases an axiom is applied to, the more the nature of the emotions and affections, extensive and powerful will they be. 5. The imand to comprehend the reasons of their being affected in a particular manner, must have provement of the internal, will also be the improvement of the external. 6. A little vice often a direct influence on our pursuits, character deforms the whole countenance; as one single and happiness, as private citizens, and as false trait in a portrait, makes the whole a carripublic speakers. cature. 7. The noblest talents may rust in indolence; and the most moderate, by industry, may be astonishingly improved.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy,
I VIRTUE'S prize.

[friend.

Anecdote. A Good Hint. A clergyman and Garrick the tragedian, were spending an evening together; and among other topics of conversation, that of delivery was introduced. The man of the pulpit asked Garrick, "Why is it, you are able to produce so much more effect, with the recital of your fictions, than we do. by the delivery of the most important truths?" The man of the stage replied-"My Lord, you speak truths, as if they were fictions; we speak fictions, as if they were truths."

the property of a truly good man, to do great and good things, though he risk everything by it.

In faith, and hope, the world will disagree; But all mankind's concern-is charity. He gave to mercy-all he had, a tear; He gained from heaven, ('twas all he wished,) a In the faithful husbandman-you see, What all-true christians-ought to be. Speak of me, as I am nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught-m malice. Honor, and shame, from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 457. An accurate analysis of the passions and affections is, to the moralist, as well as Action. To do an ill action is base; to the student in elocution, what the science of do a good one, which involves you in no dananatomy, and physiology is to the physi-ger, is nothing more than common; but it is cian and surgeon: it constitutes the first principles of rational practice for both; it is, in a moral view, the anatomy of the heart; discloses why and how it beats; indicates appearances in a sound and healthy state, and detects diseases, with their causes, and is much more fortunate in applying remedies. Stages of Progress. Useful discoveries and improvements generally have four distinct stages in their progress to universality. The first 18, when the theory is pronounced false, contrary to experience, absurd and unworthy of the attention of sensible men. The second is, when they are claimed as having been known before; thus, depriving the medium-of all credit for more industry, discrimination and originality, than others. The third is, when they are denounced as perilous nnovations, endangering the religion and moráls of society. The fourth is, when they are received as established truths by every body; the only wonder being, that they should ever have been doubted, they are in such perfect harmony with

e laws of the universe.

The meek-ey'd morn appears, mother of dews,
At first, faint glimmering-in the dappled eart;
Till, far o'er ether-spreads the wid'ning glow;
And, from before the lustre of her face,
White break the clouds away. With quicken'd step,
Brown night-retires; young day pours in apace,
And opens all the lawny prospect wide.
The dripping rock, the mount sin's misty top,
Swell on the sight, and brighten-with the dawn.

If, on a sudden, he begins to rise,

No ran that lives, can count his enemies.

Varieties. 1. The coin, that is most current among mankind-is flattery: the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be. 2. Bring the entire powers of your mind, to bear on whatever study you undertake, with a singleness of purpose, and you will not fail of success. 3. The predominance of a favorite study, affects all the subordinate purposes of the intellect. 4. Vex not thy heart, in seeking-what were far better unfound. 5. In reference to certain prin ciples and persons, unstable people cry out, at first, "ALL HAIL, but afterwards, 66 CRUCIFY CRUCIFY!" 6. Luxury is an enticing pleasure, which hath honey in her mouth, but gall in her heart, and a sting in her embrace. 7. Let your rule of action be, to perform, faithfully, and without solicitude, the duty of the present hour; let the futur take care of itself.

Two tasks are ours, to know-and understand,
Evil, and good, and name their various band;
But worthier far, with cheerful will, to choose
Whate'er is good, and all the ill-refuse.
Why all this toil-for triumphs of an hour?
What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame."
Earth's highest station ends in-" Here he lies:"
And-dust-to dust"-concludes her noblest song.

Virtue itself, 'scapes not calumn.c strokes.