[Din DO. ]

88. D has two sounds; first, its name sound; DAME; dart, dawn, dab; deed, dead; die, did; dole, do, dog; duke, duck, druid; doit, doubt; a dan-dy de-frauded his dad-dy of his sec-ondhand-ed sad-dle, arid dubbed the had-dok a la-dy-bird; the double head-ed pad-dy, nod-ding at noon-day, de-ter-mined to rid-dle ted-ded hay in the fields till doomsday; the dog-ged dry-ads ad-dict-ed to depre-da-tions, robbed the day-dawn of its dread-ed di-a-dem, and erred and strayed a good deal the down-ward road to ad-en

dum.

89. I must give all the sounds, particularly the final ones, with great care, and never run the words together, making one, out of three. And is pronounced six different ways; only one of which is right. Some

call it an, or en; others, un, nd, or n; and a few-and; thus good-an-bad causen effect; loaves-en-fishes, hills-un groves; pen un-ink, you-nd I, or youn-I; an-desaid; hooks-en-eyes, wor-sen-worse, pleas. ure-un-pain; cakes-n-beer, to-un-the; round'n-round, ol-d'n-young, voice-n-ear; breaden-butter; vir-tu-n-vice; Jame-zen-John: solem-un-sub-lime, up-'n-down, pies'-ncakes. I will avoid such glaring faults, and give to each letter its appropriate sound.

Notes. 1. Here the delicate ear may perceive the aspirate

after the vocal part of d, as after b, and some other letters. The vocal is made, (see engraving,) by pressing the tongue against the gums of the upper fore-teeth, (the incisors,) and the roof of the mouth, beginning to say d, without the e sound; and the aspirated part, by removing the tongue, and the organs taking their natural positions; but avoid giving the aspirate of the vocal consonants, any vocality. 2. By whispering the vocal consonants, the aspi

rate only is heard. 3. Dis silent in hand-sel, hand-saw, handsome, hand-ker-chief, and the first d in Wednes-day, stadt-holder, and in Dnie-per, (Nee-per,) and Dnies-ter, (Nees-ter). 4. Do not give the sound of f to d in any word; as-grand-eur, zold-ier, verd-ure, ed-u-cate, ob-dn-rate, cred-u-lous, mod-u-late, &c.; but speak them as though written grand-yur, sold-yur, &c.; the same analogy prevails in na-ture, fort-une, &c. 5. The following partieipials and adjectives, should be pronounced without abridgment;

a Liess-ed man gives unfeign-ed thanks to his learn-ed friend, and Jelov-ed lady; some wing-ed ammals are curs-ed things; you say he curs'd and bless'd him, for he feigu'd that he had learn'd his lessson, 6. Pronounce words in the Bible, the same as in other

books.

Anecdote. Blushing. A certain fashionable and dissipated youth, more famed for his red nose, than for his wit, on approaching a female, who was highly rouged, said; "Miss; you blush from modesty." "Pardon me Sir," she replied, "I blush from reflection."

Kindness-in woman, not their beauteous looks Shall win my love.

90. As practicing on the gutterals very much improves the voice, by giving it depth of tone, and imparting to it smoothness and strength, I will repeat the following, with force and energy, and at the same time convert all the breath into sound: the dis-carded hands dread-ed the sounds of the muffled drums; that broke on the sad-den'd dream-er's ears, mad-dened by des-pair; the blood ebb'd and flow'd from their double dy'd shields, and worlds on words, and friends on friends by thousands roll'd.

Proverbs. 1. An irritable and passionate man-is a downright drunkard. 2. Better go to keaven in rags, than to hell, in embroidery. 3. Common sense-is the growth of all countries, but very rare. 4. Death has nothing terrible in it, but what life has made so. 5. Every vice fights against nature. 6. Folly-is never long pleased with itself. 7. Guilt-is always jealous. 8. He that shows his passion, tells his enemy where to hit him. 9. It is pride, not nature, that craves much. 10. Keep out of broils, and you will neither be a principal nor a witness. 11.

One dog barking, another soon joins him. 12. Money-is a good servant, but a bad master,

Changes. We see that all material objects around us are changing; their colors change just as the particles are disturbed in their relations. This result is not owing to any natural cause, but to the Divine Power. And are there not higher influences more potent, tho' invisible, acting on man's moral nature, pervading the deepest abysses of his affection, and the darkest recesses of his

thoughts; to purify the one, and enlighten

the other, and from the chaos of both-to educe order, beauty and happiness? And why is it not changed? Shall we deny to his moral nature, the powers and capacities which we assign to stocks and stones? Or, is the Almighty less inclined to bring the most highly endowed of his creatures into the harmony and blessedness of his own Divine Order? To affirm either would be the grossest reflection on the character of God, and the nature of his works. If man, then, be not changed, so as to reflect the likeness and image of his Creator and Redeemer, it must be in consequence of his own depraved will, and blinded understand ing.

Varieties. 1. Why is the letter D like a sailor? because it follows the C. 2. Books, (says Lord Bacon,) should have no patrons, but truth and reason. 3. Who follows not virtue in youth, cannot fly vice in old age. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be a dear article to you in the end. 5. Those-bear disappointments the best, who have been most used to them. 6. Confidence-produces more conversation than either wit or talent. 7. Attend well to all that is said; for noihing-exists in vain, either in outward aeation, in the mind, in the speech, or in the actions.

Authors, before they write, should read.

95. Let the position be erect, and the body balanced on the foot upon which you stand: banish all care and anxiety from the mind; let the forehead be perfectly smooth, the lungs entirely quiescent, and make every effort from the abdominal region. To expand the thorax and become straight, strike the PALMS of the hands together before, and the backs of them behind, turning the thumbs upward: do all with a united action of the body and mind, the center of exertion being in the small of the back; be in earnest, but husband your breath and strength; breathe

often, and be perfectly free, easy, indepen

dent, and natural.

96. F has two sounds: first, name sound: FIFE; off with the scarf from the calf's head; the af-fable buf-foon, faith-ful to its gaffer, lifts his wife's fa-ther from

the cof-fin, and puts in the fret- [Fin FIFE.] ful cuf-fy; fear-ful of the effects, the frightful fel-low prof-fers his hand-ker-chief to fire off the dan-druff from the fit-ful fool's of-fensive fowl-ing-piece.

97. If you read and speak slow, and articulate well, you will always be heard with attention; although your delivery, in other respects, may be very faulty and remember, that it is not necessary to speak very loud, in order to be understood, but very distinctly, and, of course, deliberately. The sweeter, and more musical your voice is, the better, and the farther you may be heard, the more accurate will be your pronunciation, and with the more pleasure and profit will you be listened to.

98. Irregulars, Gh and Ph frequently have this sound; Phil-ip Brough, laugh'd enough at the phantoms of the her-maph-rodite phi-los-o-phy, to make the nymph Saphi-ra have a phthis-i-cal hic-cough; the seraph's draught of the proph-e-cy was lith-o

graph'd for an eph-a of phos-pho-res-ent naph-tha, and a spher-i-cal trough of tough

phys ic.

Notes. 1. To make this dento-labial aspirate, press the under lip against the upper fore teeth, as seen in the engraving, and blow out the first sound of the word fire! 2. Gh, are sulent in drought, burrough, nigh, high, brought, dough, flight, ec.; and hand h in phthis-i-cal. 3. The difficulty of applying rules, to the pronunciation of our language, may be illustrated by the two following lines, where ough is pronounced in different ways; as o, uff, off, ow, co, and ock. Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through, O'er life's dark lough my course I will pursue.

Anecdote. Natural Death. An old man, who had been a close observer all his life, when dangerously sick, was urged by his friends, to take advice of a quack; but objected, saying, "I wish to die a natural death."

The patient mind, by yielding-overcomes.

Proverbs. 1. Hope-is a good breakfast, Lua a bad supper. 2. It is right to put every thing to its proper use. 3. Open confession-is good for the soul. 4. Pride-must have a fall. 5. The lower mill-stone-grinds as well as the upper one. 6. Venture not all in one vessel. 7. What one ardently desires, he easily believes. 8. Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. 9. A man that breaks his word, bids others be false to him. 10. Amendment-is repentance. 1. There is nothing useless to a person of sense.

12. The hand of the diligent-maketh rich.

Patience and Perseverance. Let any one consider, with attention, the structure

of a common engine to raise water. Let him observe the intricacy of the machinery, and behold in what vasi quantities one of the heaviest elements is forced out of its course; and then let him reflect how many experiments must have been tried in vain, how many obstacles overcome, before a frame of such wonderful variety in its parts, could have been successfully put together: after which consideration let him pursue his enterprise with hope of success, supporting the spirit of industry, by thinking how much may be done by patience and perseverance.

Varieties. Was the last war with Eng. land-justifiable? 2. In every thing you undertake, have some definite object in mind. 3. Persons of either sex-may captivate, by assuming a feigned character; but when the deception is found out, disgrace and unhappiness will be the consequences of the fraud. 4. All truths-are the forms of heavenly loves; and all falsities are the forms of infernal loves. 5. While we co-operate with Nature, we cannot labor too much-for the development and perfection of body and mind; but when we force or contradict her, so far from mending and improving "the

human form divine," we actually degrade it below the brute. 6. How ridiculous some people make themselves appear, by giving their opinions for or against a thing, with which they are unacquainted! 7. The law

of God is divine and eternal, and no person has a right to alter, add, or diminish, one word: it must speak for itself, and stand by itself.

Who needs a teacher-to admonish him, [mist?
That flesh is grass? That earthly things-are
What are our joys-but dreams? and what our
But goodly shadows in the summer cloud 1 [hopee,
There's not a wind that blows, but bears with it
Some rainbow promise. Not a moment flies,
But puts its sickle-in the fields of life,
[carss.
And mows its thousands, with their joys and

Our early days!-How often-back

We turn-on Life's bewildering track,
To where, o'er hill, and valley, plays
The sunlight of our early days!
A monkey, to reform the times,
Resolved to visit foreign climes.

99. He who attempts to make an inroad on the existing state of things, though evidently for the better, will find a few to encourage and assist him, in effecting a useful reform; and many who will treat his honest exertions with resentment and contempt, and cling to their old errors with a fonder pertinacity, the more vigorous is the effort to tear them from their arms. There is more hope of a fool, than of one wise in his own conceit.

100. The second sound of F, is that of V: OF; (never off, nor uv;) there-of here-of, where-of; the only words in our language, in which F, has this sound: a piece of cake, not a piece-ucake, nor a piece-ur-cake.

[Fin OF.]

101. Muscle Breakers. Thou waft'd'st the rickety skiff over the mountain height cliffs, and clearly saw'st the full orb'd moon, in whose silvery and effulgent light, thou reef'd'st the haggled sails of the ship-wrecked vessel, on the rock-bound coast of Kamscat-ka. He was an unamiable, disrespectful, incommunicative, disingenuous, formidable, unmanageable, intolerable and pusilanimous old bachelor. Get the latest amended edition of Charles Smith's Thucyd-i-des, and study the colonist's best in

terests.

102. Irregulars. V has this vocal aspirate; also Ph in a few words; my vain nephew, Ste-phen Van-de-ver, be-lieves Ve-nus a ves-tal vir-gin, who viv-i-fies his shiv-ered liv-er, and im-proves his vel-vet voice, so as to speak with viv-id viv-ac-i-ty; the brave chev-a-lier be-haves like a vol-a-tile con-ser-va-tive, and says, he loves white wine vin-e-gar with veal vict-uals every warm day in the vo-cal vales of Vu-co-var.

103. FAULTS in articulation, early contracted, are suffered to gain strength by habit, and grow so inveterate by time, as to be almost incurable. Hence, parents should assist their children to pronounce correctly, in their first attempts to speak, instead of permitting them to pronounce in a faulty manner: but some, so far from endeavoring to correct them, encourage them to go on in their baby talk; thus cultivating a vicious mode of articulation. Has wisdom fled from men; or was she driven away?

Notes. 1. This diphthongal sound, is made like that of f,

with the addition of a voice sound in the larynx: see engraving. 2 A modification of this sound, with the upper lip over-lapping the un. der me, and blowing down on the chin, gives a very good imita. tion of the humble-bee. 3. Avoid saying gim me some, for give me some; I haint got any, for I have not got any; I don't luft to go; for, I don't love, (like rather,) to go; you'll haff to do it; for you will have to do it.

What is a man,

If his chief good and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure,
He, th't made us, with such large discourse,
Looking before, and after, gave us not

That capability and god-like reason,
To rust in us-unused.

Proverbs. 1. A good cause makes a cut heart, and a strong arm. 2. Better ten guilty persons escape, than one innocently suffer. 3 Criminals-are punished, that crime may be prevented. 4. Drunkenness-turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. 5. He that goes to church, with an evil intention, goes on the devil's errand. 6. Most things have handles; and a wise man takes hold of the best. 7. Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies, yet they are often in our own bosom. 8. Poverty-makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows. 9. Make yourself all honey, and the flies will be sure to devour you. 10. Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools. 11. A stitch in time-saves nine.. 12. The idle man's head, is the devil's workshop.

Anecdote. School master and pupil. A school master-asked a boy, one very cold winter morning, what was the Latin-for the word cold: at which the boy hesitated, -saying, I have it at my finger's ends.

Ourselves and Others. That mandeserves the thanks of his country, who connects with his own-the good of others. The philosopher-enlightens the WORLD; the manufacturer-employs the needy; and the merchant-gratifies the rich, by procu. ring the varieties of every clime. The miser, altho' he may be no burden on society, yet, thinking only of himself, affords no one else either profit, or pleasure. As it is not of any one to have a very large share of happiness, that man will, of course, have the largest portion, who makes himself-a partner in the happiness of others. The BENEVOLENT are sharers in every one's joys.

Varieties. 1. Ought not the study of our language be made part of our education? 2. He who is slowest in making a promise, is generally the most faithful in performing it. 3. They who are governed by reason, need no other motive than the goodness of a thing, to induce them to practice it. 4. A reading people will become a thinking people; and then they are capable of becoming a rational and a great people. 5. The happiness of every one depends more on the state of his own mind, than on any external circum stance; nay, more than all external things put together. 6. There is no one so despicable, but may be able, in some way, and at some time, to revenge our impositions. 7 Desire-seeks an end the nature of the de sire, love and life, may be known by its end When lowly Merit--feels misfortune's blow, And seeks relief from penury and wo, Hope fills with rapture-every generous heart, To share its treasures, and its hopes impart; As, rising o'er the sordid lust of gold,

It shows the impress of a heavenly mould!

Whose nature is so far from doing harm,
That he suspects none.