What does she say of the burning of widows in India? What is the law mentioned by Sinbad? What can you say of Lord Bute? Why did they not issue the shilling in Queen Elizabeth's time? What can you say of Henrietta? How came she to her end? What can you say of the Irish jury? Describe Rubens and Lady Jane Douglass' portraits. What of the Lady's law suit? Describe the several portraits. No. 2. Leisurely, circumnavigate, protected, external, appeared, inscription, concealment, fugitive, religious, heedless, introduction, tightly, allegorical, connected, suspect, unhappy, admirably, produced, appendage, involved, occasionally, deception. No. 6. Punctuate last verse. No. 7. Grander and grandeur, pastor and pasture, fault and false, bridle and bridal, relict and relic, concur and conquer, chant and chance, affect and effect, accept and except. No. 8. § 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 13. § 5. No. 10. Analyze the first verse. § 1. Note. No. 12. All the important words in the lesson. Remark. Let the pupil remember that not the longest words are the most important always. Part Second. a Sound of ex? b§ 11. 4. c Sound of vowel? d Why!? e Sound of k? f £60,000 is nearly $3,000,000. g What figure of speech? h Why a comma? k § 26. 1. m Why parading? No. 1. What can you say of the fig-trees? What was the remark of Bishop Hall? What can you say of the boy that smoked? What was the remark of a Scotchman? What does she say of the expense of tobacco and snuff? What does she say of a certain apothecary? What can you say of the confession of an Opium Eater? What did Coleridge do? What can you say of the flower garden? What can you say of exotics? How many took care of this garden? What can you say of birds? What of her witty remark? What blunder was made? What can you say of the trees on the walks of Mount Stewart? What did she wish she was? Why? The concluding remark? No. 2. Collect, including, powerful, audible, irregular, luxuriantly, successfully, frightful, excellent, zealous, disagreeably, helpless. No. 3. E-tar-nal-ly for eter-nel-ly, as-y-lum for a-sy-lum, vir-tu for virt-yue. stun for stone, nei-ther for ne-ther, jined for joined, bust-ing for burst-ing. No. 6. Punctuation omitted in first and last verse; correct them. No. 7. Colonel and kurnel, purl and pearl, urn and earn, wart and wert, current and courant, goal and gaol, genius and genus, line and loin, beetle, beadle, and beagle. No. 8. § 3. 6. 7. 8. 9. No. 10. Let the teacher ask such questions on analyzing sentences as occur to him. It is a very important exercise. No. 12. All the words in last verse. LESSON XLI. A LITTLE GIRL'S LAMENT FOR THE FAIRIES. 1. АH! wherec are all the fairies flown ?a 'Mid lawns and bowers, when daylight's done, 2. You wearyc me,-you tiresome doll !b A fairy's wand, my good Miss Poll,b Had sported all the day:b But now, oh dear!a that cannot be, 3. Now, there are none of them to ask No diamonds now reward the task, This world is quite a stupid place, Now fairies are away. 4. We cannot meet them at a spring, For water to our doors we bring, One still finds toads; I've seen them crawl But diamonds,c-none; they vanish'd all When fairies went away. 5. There's puss sits purring by the fire, The stupid thing! I do so tire 6. The bean-stalks in our gardens all,n 7. And books-and maps-and lessons-ah! But now there's no such luck for me! The fairiest are away. 8. Farewell to fairy finery! To fairy presents rare; No slippers made of glass have we, Nor pumpkin coach-nor coachman ratm Nor lizard footman gay; Nor steeds those mice that feared no catm 9. They meet no longer by the light One would but catch a cold or fever, And these are things that happened never, 10. Farewell to all the pretty tales, On mushroom tables, in the dales, 11. Farewell like theirs my song is donec a What inflection? b Give the reason for the punctuation. of the vowel? d Sound of n? n § 45. m § 46. t § 49. 1. this comma? p Sound of g? No. 2. Tiresome, disgrace, leaden, instruction, slowly. No. 3. Punk-in for pump-kin. No. 6. Punctuate last verse. c Sound o Why No. 7. Reign, rein, and rain, muscat and muskcat, either and ether, loath and loathe, marsh and mash, dent and dense, colture and culture, order and ordure, radicle and radical, mettle and metal, rood and rude, least and less, deference and difference, shelling and shilling. No. 8. With what tone of voice ought verse fifth to be read? No. 12. All the words in last verse. Look in Dictionary for every word you do not fully understand. LESSON XLII. TIME.* It is of the utmost consequence that we improve our time. "Never," says one, delay till to-morrow, what reason and conscience tell you ought to be performed to-day. To-morrow is not yours, and, though you should live to enjoy it, you * Let the pupil learn to value time, when he reads, how many great men have valued it. must not overload it with a burden not its own." "God, (says another,) who is liberal and generous in all other gifts, teaches us, by the wise economy of his Providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the right management of our time; for he never gives us two moments together; he gives us only the second as he takes away the first, and keeps the third in his hands, leaving us in an absolute uncertainty whether he will give it us or not." 2. Grotius used to take for his motto, "Hora ruit," to put himself in continual remembrance, that he should usefully employ that time which was flying away with extreme rapidity; and yet, so great a sense had he of the non-improvement of it, that, with all his learning, when he came to die, he exclaimed, "I have wasted my life in incessant toil, and have done nothing." 3. Dr. Cotton Mather was so careful to redeem his time, that, to prevent the tediousness of visits, he wrote over his study door in capital letters-" BE SHORT." 4. Mr. Henry Jessey, a non-conformist minister, had the following motto put over his study door: "Whatever friend comes hither, 5. Titus, the Roman Emperor, throughout the course of his whole life, called himself to an account every night for the actions of the past day; and as often as he found he had slipped any one day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial," Perdidi diem;" I have lost a day. Thus may every man say, who suffers a day to pass without doing something for God, for his soul, or for his fellow creatures. 6. "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves," was a very just and sensible reflection of old Mr. Lounds, the famous Secretary of the Treasury under William III., Anne, and George I. "I therefore recommend to you," says an author, "to take care of minutes, for hours will take care of themselves. Be doing something or other all day long, and not neglect half hours and quarters of hours, which, at the year's end, amount to a great sum." 7. "An Italian philosopher," says Dr. Johnson, "expressed in his motto, that time was his estate; an estate, indeed, which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abun |