8. It cannot be too often repeated that it is not the so-called blessings of life, its sunshine and calm, that make men, but its rugged experiences, its storms, tempests, and trials. Early adversity, especially, is often a blessing in disguise. It is the rough Atlantic seas, the cold, dark, winter nights, and the fierce "northers," that make the English and the American sailors the toughest and most skilful in the world. Want, opposition, roughness alternating with smoothness, difficulty with ease, storm with sunshine, sorrow with joy--these make the discipline of life. 9. Never give up! though the grape-shot may rattle, Stand like a rock, and the storm or the battle Providence wisely has mingled the cup; ad-ver-sa-ry column New Words in this Lesson. his-to-ri-ans mod-ern ad-ver-si-ty de-ter-mi-na-tion im-pos-si-bil-i-ties or-gan-ized Questions:-1. What reason did a carpenter give for carefully planing a magistrate's bench? 2. For what have nearly all great men been remarkable? What was said of Julius Cæsar? Of Hannibal? 3. What did Napoleon say about the word "impossible"? About the Alps? With what result? 4. During what war did Wellington show his firmness? 5. Of what was the Battle of Waterloo an illustration? How long did the British army stand up against the French fire? How did they charge at last? 6. With what does history abound? How did Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo? 7. How was it that Washington triumphed at last? What did Lord Chatham say when told that a thing was impossible? 8. What do more to make men than the so-called blessings of life? What make British and American sailors the best in the world? Notes and Meanings. 1 Smiles, Sam-u-el, biographer and historian. "Self-Help," a work on man's power to help himself. Mag-is-trate, one of the chief officers of a town or a city. 2 Tow-ered, risen. He in Ju-li-us Cæ-sar (100 B.C.-44 B. C.), a Han-ni-bal, a great general who lived His-to-ri-ans, writers of history. 3 Na-po-le-on (1769-1821), Emperor of the French. Defeated by Wellington at Waterloo, 1815. Died an exile at St. Helena. Char-ac-ter-is-tics, marks in his character. Ge-ni-us, power of mind. Alps, chief mountains in Europe. Sim-plon, a mountain peak of the 4 Ad-ver-sa-ry, enemy. [Alps. Wel-ling-ton (1769-1852), a great soldier and statesman. Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, 1815. Pe-nin-su-lar War, fought in Spain and Portugal between the British and the French. Summary:-The will of a man makes or clears the way he wishes to go. Great energy of will has been possessed by nearly all successful men. The lives of Julius Cæsar, Hannibal, Napoleon, Wellington, Washington, and Lord Chatham are illustrations of the proverb, "Where there's a will there's a way." Our motto should be, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Exercises: 1. Parse and analyze: Where there's a will there's a way. 2. Change into Nouns-English, great, impossible, replied, conquer, obey, rough, American. 3. Make Sentences containing the words-seems, seams; sear, sere, seer; sees, seize. 4. What do we mean when we say, Give examples. But now I often wish the night 2. I remember, I remember The roses red and white, 3. I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as To swallows on the wing. 4. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops It was a childish ignorance; But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THOMAS HOOD.5 New Words in this Lesson. ig-no-rance la-bur-num li-lacs Notes and Meanings. 1 Wink, moment; time in which one can wink. Too long a day, never so weary as to wish for night. Borne my breath away, brought death. 3 Flew on feathers, light-hearted; free from care. Heavy, weary; anxious. Fe-ver, hot; tired; excited. 4 Child-ish ig-no-rance, child's want of knowledge. Lit-tle joy, no cause for happiness. 5 Thom-as Hood (1798-1845), poet and humorist. He wrote the Song of the Shirt. Summary: In this poem we have the writer's childish innocence and freedom from care contrasted with the weariness and cares of his manhood. Then the days were never too long, for they brought only continual pleasure; now he sometimes feels as if life itself were too long. His remembrances of his childhood are bright and joyous, while his present lot is dark and sorrowful. Exercises-1. Parse and analyze: His present lot is dark and sorrowful. 2. Add ing to agree, dye, eye, hie, shoe, hoe, singe, tinge. 3. Make Sentences containing-sew, sow, so; shear, sheer; sheath, sheathe. 4. What do you remember of your early Childhood? USING THE EYES. 1. The difference between men consists, in a great measure, in the intelligence of their observation. The Russian proverb says of the non-observant man, "He goes through the forest and sees no firewood." "The wise man's eyes are in his head," says Solomon; "but the fool walketh in darkness.” 2. "Sir," said Johnson, on one occasion, to a fine gentleman just returned from Italy, “some men will learn more in the Hampstead stage than others in the tour of Europe." It is the mind that sees, as well as the eye. 3. Many, before Galileo, had seen a suspended weight swing before their eyes with a measured beat; but he was the first to detect the value of the fact. One of the vergers, in the cathedral at Pisa, after replenishing with oil a lamp which hung from the roof, left it swinging to and fro; and Galileo, |