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790. ALL LABOR EQUALLY HONORABLE.

9. R. RUSSELL.

I WILL inquire, whether the scholar would not occasionally consult his own welfare, by adopting an active pursuit, in which he might become distinguished, instead of clinging to mediocrity in a high profession, simply because he has received a degree from an university, and fears that he might fall from Brahmin to Pariah, and lose caste in the descent. There is an aristocracy of letters, and it cannot only be borne, but regarded with reverence, when its claims are founded on intellectual superiority, or acquisition of knowledge surpassing that of ordinary men. But the pride that cannot read its diploma, without the aid of grammar and dictionary, should not be offended at the suggestion, that there are other roads to success than through the Court Room, Hospital, or Divinity School There is esteem, respect, veneration, for the profound, conscien tious lawyer, the skilful, scientific physician, and the fearless, truth-telling minister of God. They are "all, all honorable men;" no earthly position can be higher, no sphere of usefulness more extensive But it is another thing to adopt a profession, merely because it is considered respectable; to be a nuisance in an unswept chamber, garnished with dusty newspapers, and a few dog-eared. bilious looking volumes, where the gaunt spider holds undisturbed possession, no fratricidal hand ejecting him from his cobweb office, for there is a tacit understanding between the occupants, and they practice in company, with that bond of sympathy, which arises from kindred employment; or, to become co-partner with death, as the sulky rattles and squeaks on the highway, with barely acquirement enough in it to pass for Doctor, reputation depending on some happy blunder, in the course of a series of experiments instituted on the ground that there is luck in many trials; or to drag heavily along, where the spirit is weak and the flesh is unwilling, the six days' task a labor of desperation, reluctantly worried through, that there may be much endurance on the seventh.

The common notion, that a collegiate education is a preparation for a learned profession alone, has spoiled many a good carpenter, done great injustice to the sledge and anvil, and committed fraud on the corn and potatoe field. It turns a cold shoulder to the leather apron, sustains Rob Roy's opinion of weavers and spinners, looks superciliously on trade, and has an unqualified repugnance for every thing that requires the labor of hands as well us head. It keeps up the absurdity, that the farmer's son should not return to the plough, that the young mechanic must not again wield the hammer, and that four years are lost, when the graduate finds himself over the merchant's Letter-Book, instead of Blackstone's Commentaries; as though education could not be useful out of an allotted line, and would not compensate its possessor, whether the signover his door proclaims him shoemaker, or attorney at law.

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qualified, dares do what he feels he can do well. What matters it, that a strip of parchment attests his prescriptive claim to scholastic honors, and a college catalogue wafts his name to posterity? If he has a genius, for making shoes, or laying stone wall, let him make shoes, or lay stone wall. Either is as honorable as filling writs, prescribing doses, or writing sermons because Sunday is coming.

791. PRESS ON.

PRESS on surmount the rocky steeps,
Climb boldly, o'er the torrent's arch:
He fails, alone, who feebly creeps,

He wins, who dares the hero's march
Be thou a hero! let thy might

Tramp on eternal snows its way,
And, through the ebon walls of night,
Hew down a passage unto day.
Press on if once, and twice, thy feet

Slip back, and stumble, harder try;
From him, who never dreads to meet
Danger and death, they're sure to fly.
To coward ranks, the bullet speeds,
While, on their breasts, who never quail,
Gleams, guardian of chivalric deeds,
Bright courage, like a coat of mail.
Press on! if Fortune play thee false
To-day, to-morrow she'll be true;
Whom now she sinks, she now exalts,
Taking old gifts, and granting new.
The wisdom of the present hour

Makes up for follies, past and gone:
To weakness, strength succeeds, and power
From frailty springs-press on! press on!
Therefore, press on! and reach the goal,
And gain the prize, and wear the crown:
Faint not for, to the steadfast soul,

Come wealth, and honor, and renown, To thine own self be true, and keep Thy mind from sloth, thy heart from soil; Press on and thou shalt surely reap A heavenly harvest, for thy toil!

792. THE PLOUGH.-ANONYMOUS LET them sing, who may, of the battle fray, And the deeds, that have long since past; Let them chant, in praise of the tar, whose days

I

would render to these, all the worship you please,

Are spent on the ocean vast;

I would honor them, even Now,

But I'd give far more, from my heart's full store,
To the cause of the Good Old Plough.
How pleasant to me. is the song from the tree,
And the rich and blossoming bough;
Oh! these are the sweets, which the rustic greets,
As he follows the Good Old Plough.
Though he follows no hound, yet his day is crowned,
With a triumph, as good, I trow,
As though antlered head, at his feet lay dead,
Full many there be, that we daily see,
Instead of the Good Old Plough.

With a selfish and hollow pride,
Who the plougman's lot, in his humble cot,

With a scornful look deride.

Yet, I'd rather take, aye, a hearty shake

From his hand, than to wealthiness bow; For the honest grasp, of that hand's rough clasp Hath guided the Good Old Plough. All honor be, then, to these gray old men, When, at last, they are bowed with toil Their warfare then o'er, why, they battle no mor And the chaplet each wears, is his silver hams, For they've conquered the stubborn soil. And ne'er shall the victor's brow, With a laurelled crows, to the grave go down. Like these sons of the Good Old Plough.

793. WORK ENOUGH FOR ALL.-G. R. RUSSELL.

IT is a common complaint, perpetually reiterated, that the occupations of life are filled to overflowing; that the avenues to wealth, or distinction, are so crowded with competitors, that it is hopeless to endeavor to make way in the dense and jostling masses. Long before Cheops had planted the basement stone of his pyramid, when, Sphinx and Colossi had not yet been fashioned into their huge existence, and the untouched quarry had given out neither temple nor monument, the young Egyptian, as he looked along the Nile, may have mourned that he was born too late. Fate had done him injustice, in withholding his individual being till the destinies of man were accomplished. His imagination warmed at what he might have been, had his chances been commensurate with his merits; but what remained for him now, in this worn out, battered, used up hulk of a world, but to sorrow for the good old times, which had exhausted all resources!

The Roman youth, as he assumed the "toga virilis," and, in all the consciousness of newly acquired dignity, folded about him his fresh insignia of manhood, thought that it should have been put on some centuries earlier. Standing amidst inemorials of past glories, where arch and column told of triumphs, which had secured boundless dominion, he felt that nothing was left for the exercise of his genius, or the energies of his enterprise.

The mournful lamentation of antiquity has not been weakened in its transmission, and it is not more reasonable now, than when it groaned by the Nile and Tiber. There is always room enough in the world, and work waiting for willing hands. The charm that conquers obstacle and commands success, is strong Will and strong Work. Application is the friend and ally of genius. The laborious scholar, the diligent merchant, the industrious mechanic, the hard-working farmer, are thriving men, and take rank in the world, while genius, by itself, lies in idle admiration of a fame that is ever prospective. The hare sleeps or amuses himself by the wayside, and the tortoise wins the race.

Even the gold of California requires hard work. It cannot be had for the gathering, nor is it to be coaxed out with kid gloves. The patents of nobility, on the Sacramento, are the hard hand and the sun-burned face of the laboring man.

Genius will, alone, do but little in this matter-of fact, utilitarian, hard-working world. He who would master circumstances must come down from the clouds, and bend to unren itting toil. To few of the sons of men is given an exception from the common doom.

"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

MAY giance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,"

and yet, in all that space, encounter nothing but air, too impalpable to be wrought into a local habitation or a name. His suspended pen may wait in vain for the inspiration that le to bring immortality and when, at last. it

descends on the expectant foolscap, it is. perhaps, only to chronicle rhymes which chall jingle, for a day, in some weekly newspaper. He who draws on genius alone, is oftentimes answered by-no funds; his drafts are unexpectedly protested, and he finds himself bankrupt, even while unlimited wealth seems glittering around him.

It is not revealed how much of the celebrity of gifted men has been dependent on "hard digging." The rough drafts of inspiration are not printed; the pen-crossings, those modernized marks of the inverted stylum, curl up chimney. There may have been much perplexity, before smooth verses, which fall so harmoniously on the ear, were tortured into existence; many a trial, before the splendid figure could be hammered into shape. The wondrous efforts of the mightiest masters of art have something in them besides genius. The transfigned divinity of Raphael, and the walls covered over by a percil which seems to have been dipped in sunbeams, are records not only of the mind, that could image to itself those creations, but of the intense study which, it is known, he devoted to the elements of his at Not by sudden flashes came the graceful proportions, which give such exceed. ing ber.aty to his works. Genius trusted not to itself alone, but gathered from science illustrated in the anatomical room, and from untiring contemplation of dead and living model, every auxiliary that could contribute to excellence.

When Michael Angelo hewed out his thought in marble, or personated. in fresco, the awful conceptions of the bard he loved so well, giving material form to more than the ideal of Dante, he produced the result of profound meditation, mingled with the severest application to the acquirement of all knowledge that could aid his unrivalled power.

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CONTENTS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION.

381

Stairs, and of Riding, 191; Evening Bells. 27;
Ethics, 106; Eve's Lament, 137; Everything
Useful, 214; Eve, 233; Experience, 87, 144; Ex-
clamation, 90; Extemporizing, 138, 156; Explo
sion and Expulsion, the difference, 26, 63; Ex-

A-its Sounds, 17, 18, 19, 20-2-4-7-9: Ab-95; Difference 55, 64; Difficulty, 201; Discov
stract Questions, 131-5: Action and Reaction,ery of Glass, 78; Disease of the Throat, 149
82: Accent, 69, 60: Accommodating, 24: Acute Disinterestedness, 15; Diogenes, 17; Dismiss
Pain, 196: Admiration, 179, 198: Admonition, ing, 207; Distraction, 207; Dr. Faustus and the
199, 201: Advice to a Traveler, 151: Afraid to do Devil, 183; Division of Prose and Poetry 79,
I, 143: Afraid of Work, 80: Affectation, 202:164; Doctor'm. 38; Down with your Dust, 141;
Affectuous and Heart, 71: A Fool, 192: Afirm- Dorsal and Abdominal Muscles, 57; Dr. and Pa.
ing, 200: Agriculture. 96: Agrippa's Promise kept, ver, 106; Don't know him. 119; Double Mean-
186: A get off, 33: Alderman's great Toe, 147: ing, 78; Dotage, 207; Don't Swear, 208; Dress,
Alexander and the Pirate, 110: All the Pauses, 101; Dramatic, 153; Drunkard, 113; Draco's
93: All the World a Stage, 154: All the Vowel Laws, 151; Dyspepsia, 104; Dueling, 122; Du
sounds, 33: Amazement, 188, 201: Amusements, ties, 30; Dying but once, 81; Dynamics, 140-2;
52: Anecdote on every page: Analysis and Syn- Dying Christian, 123.
thesia, 24-9, &c.: Analogies, 27. 72: Anger, 154, E-its Sounds, 21-2-4-9, 57-8, 17; Eat Bacon,
150-2: Anthony's Challenge, 89: Anxiety, 217: 203; Ecstasy, 175; Educators, 25; Education, 18,
Application, 102: Appropriate Sign, 148: Archi-25, 76, 143-7, 162, 180, 236; Effects of Know-
tecture, 103: Arab and Foot prints, 86: Arbitra-ledge, 138; Effective Style, 162; Effects of Suc-
ry Rules, 162: Articulation, 24, 56: Arms, 224-9: cess, 204; Eliza's wise Choice, 207; Elocution,
A Scold, 55: Association of Ideas, 169: Aspi- 18, 28, 33-9, 45, 156: Elocution st, 37; Eloquence,
rates, 65: Attention, 187: Astonishment, 198: 126, 163-4; Emmet's Betrothed, 76; End, Cause,
Attitudes, 10, 236: Au, 25-6: Authority, 44, Effect, 124-8, 132; Emphasis, 98, 118; by Stress,
202: Autumn, 75, 96: Awkwardness, 237: Aver-101-2-3; by Changing it, 102-4-5; by higher Pitch,
sion, 179.
106; by Quantity, 107-8-9; by a Pause, 113;
B-one Sound, 35: Base Character, 145: Beau- Enjoyment. 94; Eau, Ew, 25; Enunciation, 61;
ty, Wit and Gold, 142: Beautiful World, 197: Encouraging, 208; Envy, 152; Epitaph, 129; En-
Beauty, 136, 154: In the Deep, 164: Be earnest, vy and Jealousy, 166; Earnestness of Manner,
139, 152: Beware of relying too much on Inflec-151; Error and Truth, 24; Equality. 51; Eter
tions, 169: Bille, 17, 128, 146: Birth Day, 71:nal Joy, 28; Eternal Progress, 37; Et quette of
Bigots, 102: Blood Globules, 10: Eoasting, 210:
Bushing, 40: Boards or Sheep, 85: Bound in
call, not lettered, 220: Botany, 93: Book-keep-
ing, 36: Blundering on the Truth, 72: Boys and
Frogs. 97: Botany Bay Patriots, 160: Blind
man's Rose, 169: Blown up Lieutenant, 71: Bo-tremes, 208; Eyes, 228.
dy and Mind, 70: Bonaparte's Check, 52: Boun- F-its Sounds, 42-3; Face, 227; Faults in Ar-
daries of Knowledge, 56: Boundless Nature of ticulation, 43; Fatigue, 209; Far West, 8; Feet
Oratory, 66: Book of Nature, 203: Bourdaloue, and Hands. 11, 225-6, 236; Female Education,
171: Braying, 223: Breathing, 9, 69, 87: Brough- 137; Fear, 191; Fisherman, 115; Finishing one's
am's Eye, 45: Brotherly Love, 190: Bruce and Studies, 67; Force of Habit, 115; Folly and Wis-
the Spider, 213: Brutus, 32: Buffoonery, 204: dom, 97; Flying from and to the Church, 117;
Bunyan's Indictment, 211: Butterfly, 117.
Forehead, 232; Free to do Good, 192; Freedom,
C-its Sounds, 36-7-8-9; Cadence, 139; Catch-28, 78; Franklin's Epitaph, 204; Freedom of
ing a Tartar, 27; Causes of Greek Perfection, Thought, 45; Free Schools, 173; 44 Sounds, 63;
27 Cause and Effect, 32, 99; Census of 1840, Frederick the Great, 47; Friendship, 171; Free-
156; Ch. 87-9, 59; Changes, 40; Change, of Ac-dom of the Press, 148; Forming Theories, 232
cent. 71-2: Characteristics of Man, 119; Chil- Fright, 183; Fury, 180.
dren and Animals, 121; Chinese, 33; Chinese G-its Sounds, 44-5-6; Gambling. 153; Gener
Physicians. 156; Cheerfulness, 172; Child of al Intelligence, 23; Geography, 101; Garrick
Promise, 19; Christian Character, 53; Choice 175, 221; he sat for Fielding's portrait, 219;
of a Husband, 135; Chemistry, 95; Cicero, 32, Gentleman and Tenant, S; Genius. 219; Ges
74, 11, 166, 233; Clay, 149; Clemency to Ruffi-tures, 231; Gh, 42-5; Giving, Granting, 210
ans, 210, 215; Clergyman in Lent, 63; Classifica- Glottis, 11; Goblin full of Wrath, 126; Good
tion of Consonants, 64-5-7-8; Client's Bones, Sense. 84; Goodness of Providence, 81; Good
145; Cobler. 122; Colon, 87; Colonel, his own Works, 126; Goldsmith's Gold Pill, 121; Good
trumpeter, 118; Coincidences, 7; Combina- Name, 128; Good Example. 149; Government,
tions of Waves, 130; Common Opinions, 55; 116, 139; Grand Objects, 56; Gradations, 50
Common Sense, 107; Compassion, 117, 123; Com- Gratitude, 163, 211; Gravity, 209: Greek and
pressions and Contractions, 21; Commendation, Irish, 101; Great Mistake, 231; Grief, 184, 213,
205; Conciseness, 164; Conduct towards Swear- Grumblers, 151;
ers, 125; Confidence.-Courage, 210; Confine-
ment of Debtors, 139; Contentment, 83; Con-
quering Love, 168; Conjunction, 168; Contrary,
157; Considerate Minister, 46; Contempt, 190;
Construction of Houses, 105; Contrasts, 33; Con-
sonant Sounds, 35; Constitutional Law, 115;
Cottage for the Poor, 225; Cure for Sore Eyes,
223; Curran, 19; his Daughter, 76.

Dts Sounds, 40-1; Day of Life. 84; Dandy
Officer, 155: Dandies and Puppies, 221; Danger-
ous Biting. 76; Dangers of bad Company, 131;
Dear Wife, 29; Delivery and Painting, 94;
Death of a Heart-Friend, 97; Dead and Living
Temples, 201; Deformed Chest, 9; Debt, 118;
Deceiver, 145; Declamatory and Hortatory. 153;
Dead Languages, 221; Departed Year. 45; Death
and Idleness, 137; Demosthenes, 32, 74, 145, 166,
233 Denying, 206; Despair, 185, 213: Delight,
173: Despotism, 126; Delivery, 150-8; Dia-
phragm, 10; Devotion, 159: Desire, 178; Dia-
tonic Scale, 34. 154; Diphthongs, 31-2; Discre-
tion, 177; Discovery of a Beauty. 229; Disobe-
dience to Deceased Parents, 227; Dissimulation,

H-47, 62-3-5-8; Half Murder, 127; Hamlet's
Instructions on Delivery, 157; Hands and Feet,
11, 224-9; Habits of Thought, 19; Habits. 29;
Hatred. 179, 182; Happiness. 204; Hard Ques-
tions, 223; Harrison and Sunday School Teach-
er, 41; Half Mourning, 61; Hally and Newton,
65; Heart and Lungs, 10; Head. 227; Hanging
for Fashion's Sake, 91; Hearing and Speaking,
168; Heathens going to Heaven, 133; Historian,
194; Too High or too Low, 133; Home, 41. 166;
Hope, 157, 178; Honesty, 171; Honor, 49. 193,
209; Howard, 59, 25, 226; Hoarseness-Caus:,
and Cure, 62; Horticulture, 98: Holding one's
own, 69; Horace, 74; How to Prize good For-
tune. 209; How to Succeed, 146, 236; How to
get rid of Admirers. 149; How to produce Sounds,
18: Human Form Clothed, 8; Fuman Nature,
178; Human Testimony, 11; Humbugs. 108;
Humanity Rewarded, 33.

I-its Sounds. 22-4; 21-2-9, ES: Important
Considerations, 73, 108: Ideas, 159: Ignorance
and Error, 160-9; and Willfulness, 161: Impa-
tience, 210; Importance of Early Principles 15,

382

CONTENTS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION.

gin of Language, 66; Oratorical and Poetical
Actions and Gestures, 11, 12, 13, 14. 15, 16; and
from 172 onwards; Orthography, 64-5-6-7, 81;
One Thing at a Time, 114; Orthoepy, 1; Ou,
26; Ou and Ow, 32; Osseus or Bony System. 7.
Our Country, 151; Our Food. 31: Our Book 237;
Ourselves and others, 43; Our Sight, 134.

Imagination, 166: Inadequacy of Language, 85; | Orator's Field. 165-how they are made 68; Ori-
Independence Forever, 104, 132; Indian Virtue,
235; Injuring Others, 205; Inflections, 119, 125,
169; Inducing Disease, 127; Influence, 79, 160;
Importance of Observation, 86; Inconsistency,
145; Industry, 99, 164; Innocent and Guilty, 28;
In the Truth, 48; Interrogation. 89; Intellectual,
71; Intentions, 71; Intuition, 157; Invalids, 122;
Involuntary efforts, 99; Investigation of Thought,
190; Irresolution, 172, 217; It looked so Pretty,
129.

J-its Sounds, 44.58: Jaw Breakers, 61, and
from 17-62; Jealousy, 214, 224; Joy, 173; Jolly
Laughter, 174; Judging, 215; Jury and the Liar,
120: Justice, 92; Just Aristides, 134.

K-ite Sound, 37; Keel Hauling 75; Keeping
Time from Eternity, 64; King and his Fool, 231;
Kinds of Poetry, 99; King of Poland in France,
207; King's Evil, 31; Kingly Dinner, 151; Kings
and their Trade, 156; Kirwan, 27; Known by the
Fruits, 77; Kosciusko, 96.

tience and Perseverance, 42; Patrick Henry's
P-52; Parenthesis, 91; Party Spirit, 35, Pa-
212; Pardoning, 217; Patience won't have me,
Treason, 143; Passions and Actions. 170-1, 206,
66; Parish Clerk and the Banns, 84; Painting.
208; Painter and the King, 92; Patriots, 153;
verance, 146: Perplexity, 217; Peter the Great
Pelayo, 186; Pauses, 85, &c.: Period, 88; Perse-
217; Peter Pricker Prandle, 52; Philosophy of
Mind, 98, 123. &c.; Philosopher Outdone, 195;
Philosophy, 121; Physiological Ignorance, 203;
Phrenology, 228: Philosophy and Love. 57; Play
143-4-7; Pitt, 31, 88; Ph, 42-3; Pleasures of
on Words, 174; Perspiration, &c., 8; Pitch, 123,
Piety, 217; Plato, 17; Play on X's, 56; Poor
Priest and the King at Prayer, 208: Political
Economy, 111; Position of Body, 17; Polyglot of
Body and Mind, 230; Poisoned Cup and Cyrus;
189; Pioneers, 150; Position in Bed. 79; Polite-
Fund, 200; Point of Law. 132; Pope and the ?,
159; Pots and all gone. 173; Principles of Elo-
cution, from 17-237; Prejudice, 140; Precept
and Example, 141; Precipitancy, 62; Pride, 154.
218, 219; Prize of Immortality, 184; Preceding
Principles, 125, &c.; Position of Feet and Hands,
11; Progress of Society, 119; Prayer to the Con-
gregation, 39; Proverbs on every page, Prom-
est, 59; Powerful Stimulus. 145: Punning, 172;
ises. 124; Promising, 219; Principal and Inter-
Pronunciation, 81, 84; Provincialisms, 83; Pro-
longation of Sound, 70. 73: Providence, 117; Pi-
ty. 177, 225, 83; Public Speakers should live long-
est, 149: Pursuit of Knowledge, 168; Pupil and
Apprentice. 46; Pulpit and Theatres. 132; Pune-
tual Hearers, 139; Punishments, 218; Pulpit
Flattery, 189; Pungent Preaching, 212.

L-48; Labor, 72; Language (two kinds), 21;
Laconics, often; Law, 109; Last words of Mar-
mion, 115; Lafayette, 94; Language of Feeling,
222; Laughing Scientifically, 77; Lawyer's Hat,
22; Lawyers' Mistake, 29; Lawyer and Physi-
cian, 90; Lawyer and Client. 107, 176; Learning,
148; Legendary Tales, 106; Listening, 187: Liv-ness, 142; Polycarp and h's Lord, 153; Poor
ing Temples, 89: Lisping, 36; Logic, 156; Loins
of the Mind, 63; Look at Home. 175; Lost Purse,
206; Long Enough, 49; Lord Thurlow's Speech
from the Woolsack, 200; Love, 176, 187, 159, 217;
Love of Justice, 186; Love and Liberty, 140;
Love and Alcohol, 125; Love on the Scaffold,
232; Love and the Stars, 109: Lovely Qualities,
233; Luxury, 171; Lying, 155; Lycurgus, 51;
Lyceums, 148.

M-49; Management of the Breath, 97; Man
a Microcosm, 88. 2013; Making Resolutions, 203;
Madness, 231; Making Game of a Lady, 113;
Material of all Sounds. 47; Means of Happiness,
95; Mahomet and the Hill. 112; Malice. 216;
Matter and Manner, 50, 131, 158, 161; Mathe-
matics, 54: Mark to Hit, 113; Means of getting
Living, 105; Mediums. 20-1; Male and Female
Voices, 147; Maxims, everywhere; Mercy, 177;
Mathematical Honor, 68; Matrimony, 56; Mel-ers, 20: Quaker Presents, 199: Qualities. 22:
Q-37; Quack, 82: Qualifications of Teach-
ancholy, 216: Means to be used. 19; Men and Quantity, 70: Qualities of Voice, 140, 142: Qua-
Brutes 38: Merchants and Pigeons, 111; Men-ker and Soldier, 125: Question Direct, -9:
tal Violence, 57: Mediocrity, 157; Melody, 135-6; Queen's Reprimand
Miser, 87; Mineralogy, 91: Mirth, 174; Minor Queen Elizabeth and her Ladies, 195: Quinc
Passions, 199: Ministry of Angels. 171; Mock tillian, 229.
to her Daughter. 224:
Trial of a King, 205: Moon Eclipsed. 93: Mono-
tone, 119: Mourners, 187: Movement of Voice,
13; Modulation, 143-4; Modes of Spelling, 67;
Mother's Injunction and Bible, 82: Mouthing,
116; Mother perishing in a Snow Storm. 111;
Mother and Daughter in Prison, 1-5; Modesty,
218, 223: Mouth 229; Mr. Psalter. 36: Music.
101, 163-4-5; Mummy, 23; Muscle Breakers, 43,
52, and among the Letters; My Mother. 210;
Musical Pun. 34: Muscular System. 7: Muscular
Action. 9, and elsewhere; Mutual Mistake, $9.
N-50-1; Nature always True, 159. 205; Nat-
ural Theology, 90: Nature and Art. 151: Natu-
ralists and Realists. 137: Narrow Escape, 25;
Natural Philosophy, 25: Natural Death, 42; Nai-
oral and Spiritual 18; Natural History. 86; Nall
Fortune's Wheel, 167: Niagara Falls, 167: New
Character. 99: New Field 68: Nerves of Or-
ganic Lif 5-of Motion and Sense. 6-of Res-
piration, : Ng. 51: Nobleman and Beggar Boy.
191; Newton and his Bog. 225; Nothing True
but Heaven, 189; Nothing from Nothing. 167;
Number. 155; Nursery. 9,

0-25-6-7; 19, 24-9. 20. 57; Obeying Orders.
146: Observe, 205; Oi and Ov, 31: Oui and New
Methods of Spelling, 65-C-7: Old Habits, 124;
Only way to teach Read ng, 159: Only Natural
Sound. 18; and Notes on, 47; Que Tongue
enough, 48: Opening the Month, 110: Operating
Circumstances, 162; Oratory, 2, 4, 10, 156;

134: Raising Rent, 70: Rage, 10: Rapture, 176:
R-53-4: Rainbow, 175: Ranges of Voice,
Range of Knowledge, 66: Railery, 12, 220
Reading. 33, 57, 103, 120: Reading Rooms, 46:
Reasoning, 202: Recitations. 166: from 2/7-316:
Recipients, 52: Reading by vowel sounds. 35:
Religious Persecutions 1-7: Reading Discours-
es, 71: Remorse 184. 220: Refusing, 219: Rea -
son, 121, 227: Reproach, 182: Reproving, 221:
Revision, 117: Refinement, 93: Rhetoric. 16:
234: Reforms 164: Riches and Tale: i, 12:
Rhetorical Pause, 92, 108: Rhetorical Action
Right Views. 50 Rythm, 96: Rhymetry und
the Queen, 125 la's Address to the Pern
vians, 153; Rhyme, 167: Rose, 72: Revenge
Grave Stones, 41: Ronge. 168: Romes, 200
181: Ruined Debtor's satisfaction, 179: Rum and

Safe now, 222: Satan's Speech, 169: Svie
S-36-8-9, 42. 46: Sadness and Sorrow, I f
Fuel, 20: Sailor and Countess' Ty s. Ra: Hader
and Highwaymen. 114: Semi-colon, Si: Scienc
114: Scientific Enthusiasın, 1-1: service. In:
tion. 1-2: Seasons. 23: Se fishness, 128, 16:
Wind. 23: Self-love. 73: Sea Lawyers, 77.
Scorn, 10. 292: Seeing Right, 220: Feerga
Sense governs, 129: Sheridan, 107: Shouting
115: School Teachers. 10: Sight Reading, 57
Ships an ! Sides. 167: Shame, 23. Schoolmas-
ter and Peri's, 43: Sharp Reply, 163: Slander.
19: Slender Voice, 155: Sinking in the Sto

CONTENTS OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS.

mach, 92; Sounds, 22; Simple Laughter, 192; Simple Bodily Pain,
196; Speculation like a Cold Bath, 144; Strong Points, 106; Stand-
ing, 22; Starry Firmament [Addison], 46; Strength of Voice, 145;
Society owes all a Living, 63; Sources of Faults, 235; Socrates
and the Tyrants, 102; Speaking the Gauntlet, 116; Student's Poe-
try, 116; Sommerfield and the Bishop, 138; Standard of Speaking,
152; Sterling Integrity, 154; Style, 148, 151-9, 160-1-2; Stress,
67; Sublimity and Pathos, 22; Striking out Beauties, 177; Stage
Regulator, 178; Sowing and Reaping, 180; Suggestions, 154, 235;
Surmise, 215; Suspicion, 224; Stupidity, 30; Stretch of Thought,
231; Spinsters, 54; Successful Speaker, 128; Swiss Retort, 127;
Swearing King, 103; Standing, 22; Swearing, 167; Surprise, 188,
223; Stages of Progress, 170

T-39, 41; Talent, 120; Tale of Wonder, 226; Tallow and
Taient, 158; Telling Stories, 78; To teach Children, 109; Tele.
scope, 91; Terror, 183, 225, 231; Temperance, 198 Teaching,
225; Theology, 19; Tendency of our Language, 157; Theatres,
174; Thinking, 175; Thought and Feeling, 114; Thats, 49; This-
de Sifter, 60; True Wisdom, 34; Triphthongs, 32: Three Essen-
tials in all things, 51: Th, 60-1, True Empire, 76: Three De-
grees of Speech, 112: Three modes of Existence, 121: Thorax,
9: Tight Dressing, 9: These are my Jewels, 196: Time in Man,
166: Truth, 171, 192: True Happiness, 172: This World, 202:
A fleeting show, 189; True Eloquence, 209: To act a Passion, 212:
Too common, 221: True Modesty, 21: To and The, 57: Tough
Animal, 79: Truths not Fictions, 170: Too hard, 142: Truth and
Nature, 130: To prevent Suicide, 108: Turn Bread into Stones,
202: Tyrolese Songs, 234: Transition, 146: True Philosophy, 135:
To succeed, 146: Tremor of Voice, 156: Try again, 156: Tran-

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quillity, 172: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, 228: The Feet, 174:
Twilight Dews, 193: Thou art, O God, 158: The Rose, 72: The
Union, 55.

U-28-9, 30, 22, 24, 55, 58: Ugly Dreams, 165: Unaccented
Vowels, 75: Uncertain quantity of Wine, 62: Unwelcome Visitor,
74: Use of Spelling, 68.

V-43: Vanity Reproved, 162: Vain Mother, 58: Vs. ieties on
every page: Veneration, 189, 226: Ventriloquism, 60: Vehemence
of Action, 232: Views of Truth, 211: Virtue the best Treasure, 222:
Virtue before Riches, 160: Virtuous Friendship, 237: Vexation,
227: Voice, 166; Vocal Organs, 11; Vocal Gymnastics, 23.

W-55, 26; Warren's Address at the Battle of Bunker Hill,
paraphrased, 57; War and Truth, 90; Washington and Mother,
194; and W. and the U. S., 100; Wh, 62; What is Ours, 61; Wet
Minister, 18; What a Bug! 226; Waves or Circumflexes, 180-8
Weeping Emperor, 218; What the Youth had learned, 115; Who
is wrong in the Argument, 122; What for? 150; We love them
so, 60; Who rules? 53; Whitfield Rambling, 50; Wm. Penn, 37;
Wirt, 150; Windpipe, &c., 11; Wife, 153; Wild Oats, 19; Win
ter Evenings, 62; Wisdom of our Ancestors, 129: Weeping, 194
William and Lucy, 194: Word Painting, 95, 139, 142: Whipped
for making Rhymes, 191: Words, 20: Worth, 65: Woman, 75,
133, 136, 152: Wouder, 188, 226: Woman as she should be, 32:
Working a Passage, 98: Wrong Choice, 47: Written Language,
53-4: World not all a fleeting show, 85: Written Page, 230.
X-Pages 56, 57, 63, 64, 65, and 38.
Y-Pages 58, 22, 23, 24, 29, 63, 6-4.
Z-Pages 35, 46, 63, 67: Zo-ol-o-gy, 7, 104.

CONTENTS OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS.

Dice effects of Time, 161; Disappointed Ambition,
240; Domestic Love and Happiness, 201; Doctor
and Pupil, 203: Douglas' Account of Himself, 244,
Duries of American Citizens, 311; Dying Christian
to nis Soul, 123.

-Earch has been all alive, 231; Early Rising
and Prayer, 251; Elaration, 278; Ellees of Gen-
tleness, 213; Eloquence, werds of fire, 222; Em-
met's Betrothe 1, 76: Emmer's Vindication in full,

A-A Battle Field, 242; Abuse of Authority, 269;nity of Human Nature, 305; Discoveries, 304
Action in War, 232; Accomplished Young Lady,
261; Adams and Jefferson, 273; Address to Death,
218; Address to the Ocean, 262; Adherence to
Truth, 270; Advantages of Knowledge, 201: Affec-
tation in Ministers, 235; A fawning Publican, 215;
Against the American War, 213; Alexander's Feast,
315; Alexander Selkirk, 295; All Labor equally
honorable, 379; All the World's & Stage, 154: A
Mother's Kindness, 207; A Mother's Love, 239;
America (poetry), 277; Ainerica (prose), 250; Amer-36; Eulogium on Kesriusko, 295; Eulogium on
ican Flag, 233; Anthony's Oration over Carcar, 252;
Aaron Burr and Blennerhassett, 255; A Tile of
Wouder, 226; A Rainy Day, 230; Aspirations of
Youth, 246; Atheist and Acorn, 250; Austrian
Slanders and Hungarian Bravery, 316; Autumn
Evening, 75.

B-Bdance of happiness equal, 220; Baron's
Last Banquet, 269; Basque Girl, 213; Battle Field,
295; Be earnest! Heart's Apostle, 183: Beauty,
Wit, and Gold, 142; Beautiful Cloud, 11; Bean-
ties of Nature, 302; Benefits of Agriculture, 288;
Beggar's Petition, 275; Beware the first approach
of Crime, 88; Beware of Avarice. 226; Best of
Wives, 314; Bitter Want, 212; Book of Nature,
203; Bud of Moral Beauty, 231; Putas' Herangue,
251; Burial of Sir John Moore, 242.

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the South, 254; Dalegium on the North, 251: Fu-
ropean Freedon, V. N.B; Evening Bells, 27; Eve's
Love for Adam. 294; Eve's Lanen on leaving Par-
adise, 137; Exile of Erin, 273; Expresive Silence!
muse His praise, 183; Exlioration to be courageous,

208.

F-Falls of Niagara, 167; Famine in Irelan1, 376;
Fancied Infalibility, 238; Fatal Remerabrance, 229;
Fear of Death. 185: Female Character, 295; Fever
Dream, 265; Fire-Side, 235; Flight of Time, 232;
Flight of Xerxes, 241; Flowers and Precipice, 314;
Fortune Teller, 282; Footsteps of Angels, 273:
Fourth of July, 373; Freedom's Song, 204; Free-
dom's Votaries, 201; Frenchman and his Host, 281
G-Gambling, 153; Gambler's Wife, 257; Gen-
ticness, 177; tienius, 259; Genuine Taste. 257;
C-Capabilities of Hangry and her Sympathi-Ginevra, 272, Giving a Daughter in Marriage, 210;
zers, 316; Cassius against Cæsar, 242; Carelessness | Give thy thoughts no tongue, 151; God in Nature,
of Wrongs, 225, Colo's Senate, 276; Cato's Solilo- | 276; God's Works praio him, 46; Golden Medium,
quy, 310; Changing, forever Changing, 45: Changes
Af Mind, 255; Changing and Unclringing, 259;
Charms of Youth, 202; Charity (St. Paul), 261;
Character of Woman. 248; Character of Cassius,
221; Casracter of Pitt, 297; Character of Bona-
pete 502; Character of a good Parson, 315; Chase
(a), 284; Cheerfulness in Retirement, 172; Chest-
nur Horse, 249; Childe Harolde, 252; Christ stilling
the Tempest, 380; Cicero's Oration, Veres, 3;
Comfort in Afliction, 122; Commerce, Art, and
Religion. 375: Comfort in Dying, 216; Concealed
Love, 250; Confidence not to be placed in Man, 150;
Constancy of Woman, 295; Converse with God,
207; Coral Grove, 250; Coquetry Punished,. 263;
Curiosity, 184: Curran's Daughter, 76; Cure for
Hard Tiuica, 285.

213; Good in all Providences, 77; Goodness of God.
255; Goodness of Presidence, 81; Good Night, 282
Good Morche v. 237: Grave of the Renowned, 310;
Greek Literarum, 207; Groves-God's First Tem-
ples, 283; Grif deploring loss of Happiness, 184.

20-lai!! Memory, Hail! 231: Hannibal to his
Soldiers, 27: Hulet's Instructions on Deliver.
157; Happy he School Boy, 227; Harvest Moon
112; Hat thou dream't, 165; Hatred cursing, 179:
Heart-Friend, 269; leavenly Love, 137; Highest
Occupation of Goaius, 259; Honest Fame, or none,
148; Home, how that blessed Word, 166; Honesty.
174; Hohenlinden, 290; Home, 313; Hope, 157;
Hope for All, 178: How sleep the Brave, 162; Hot-
spur's Apology, 155; How to live, 161; How beau-
tiful the World, 197; How beautiful is Night, 206;
--Dagger Scene, 193; Daily Self-Examination, How Scholars are made, 370; Human Life, 309; Hun-
86: Darkness. 258; Days of Trial to All, 104: Da-gary and her Sympathizers. 316; Hungary's grea:
vid's Lanent over Absalom, 206; Death of a Heart
Friend, 79; Death and Sin, 101; Deserted Wife,
94; Despair of Mercy, 212; Dew-drop in Spring,
201 Destruction of denacherib's Amy, 240; Dig

strogies, 200; Hunters of Gold, 87; Hypocrites
in Region, 71; Hypocrite, 273.

Z--Idleness, 310; Imagination, 221; I met a
Fool in the Forest, 192; Immortality of the Soul

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