with the proper music of notes and tones I confess myself unable to judge but I cannot observe without disgust what effusions of nonsense and vulgarity are frequently preferred by musical composers as the vehicles of their finest airs

There is a beautiful simplicity in the music of your favourite Madrigal The stream that shineth bright the poetry too is very pleasing especially these lines

Like a rainbow's fairy form
Drawn upon the sullen storm
Thy bright image treasured well
On my weary heart doth dwell
Till all life's shadows fade away

Upon the beams of endless day

Passion never reasons nor speculates till its ardour begins to cool it never leads to long discourse or declamation on the contrary it expresses itself most commonly in short broken and interrupted speeches corresponding to the violent and desultory emotions of the mind

Purity of style or grammatical truth consisteth in the conformity of the expression to the sentiment which the speaker or the writer intends to convey by it moral truth in the conformity of the sentiment intended to be conveyed to the sentiment actually entertained by him and logical truth in the conformity of the sentiment to the nature of things

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just
And he but naked though locked up in steel
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted

Odes may be comprised under four denominations first Sacred odes or those composed on religious subjects secondly Heroic odes which are employed in the praise of heroes thirdly Moral and Phi losophical odes where the sentiments are chiefly inspired by virtue fourthly Festive and Amorous odes calculated merely for pleasure and amusement

You say you are a better soldier

Let it appear so make your vaunting true

And it shall please me well for mine own part
I shall be glad to learn of noble men

You wrong me every way you wrong me Brutus

I said an elder soldier not a better

The hum of a little tune to which in our infancy we have often listened the course of a brook which in our childhood we have frequently traced the ruins of an ancient building which we remember almost entire these remembrances sweep over the mind with an enchanting power of tenderness and melancholy at whose bidding the pleasures the business the ambition of the present moment fade and disappear

O could I flow like thee and make thy stream

My great example as it is my theme

Though deep yet clear though gentle yet not dull
Strong without rage without o'erflowing full

The country on being conquered by Joshua was divided by lot among the Jewish tribes Asher Naphtali Zebulon and Issachar occupying that northern territory afterwards called Galilee Ephraim and part of Manasseh possessing Samaria Benjamin Dan Judah and Simeon inhabiting Judea while Reuben Gad and the remainder of Manasseh shared among them in compliance with their own desire the rich pasture lands on the east of Jordan

This prerogative the intellect has above all the other faculties that whether it be or be not immediately addressed by the speaker it must be regarded by him either ultimately or subordinately ultimately when the direct purpose of the discourse is information or conviction subordinately when the end is pleasure emotion or persuasion

Saida as Sidon is now called has a population of about 7000 including a considerable number of Christians and has some trade in olive-oil corn and dye-woods and also in silk for the cultivation of which the neighbourhood abounds in orchards of mulberry trees in the plains of Saida there is a rich variety and abundance of fruit almonds figs oranges lemons &c. being exported annually in considerable quantities

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness
This is the state of man to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope to-morrow blossoms
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him

The third day comes a frost a killing frost
And when he thinks good easy man full surely

His greatness is a ripening nips his root

And then he falls as I do

While the Romans still hesitated because of the depth of the tide the standard-bearer of the Tenth Legion having implored the gods to be propitious exclaimed Leap soldiers from the ship if ye would save your Eagle from falling into British hands I for one will do my duty to my country and commander with this loud challenge he jumped boldly overboard and began to advance his standard towards the shore whereupon the other soldiers arousing each other to avert the threatened ignominy rushed into the waves and pressed vigorously on the foe

There as I lay a vision came

Or was it fancy's airy spell
Came rapid as the arrowy flame
Resistless as the ocean swell

To Nebuchadnezzar the famous city of Babylon owed whatever it possessed of strength of beauty or convenience its solid walls with their hundred gates immense in circuit height and thickness its stately temple and its proud palace with the hanging gardens its regular streets and spacious squares the embankments which confined the river the canals which carried off the floods and the vast reservoir which in seasons of drought for to the vicissitudes of immoderate rains and drought the climate was liable supplied the city and the adjacent country with water

Most of the modern writers says Isaac Taylor who have laboured and very commendably in providing elementary books for children appear to have adopted the principle which at a first glance offers itself as natural and reasonable namely that the axiomatic rudiments or comprehensive aphorisms of a science because it is from them that every thing else results are the first things to be taught to children or in other words that what is last attained by the cultivators of any branch of knowledge is what we should first impart in teaching it but this principle as it stands in contrariety to the process of discovery for we first employ ourselves upon unconnected and incidental facts and last of all digest what we have

learned in a systematic form so is it in practice opposed to the order of nature in developing the human faculties

Harley had drawn a shilling from his pocket but Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it Virtue held back his arm but a milder form a younger sister of Virtue's not so severe as Virtue nor so serious as Pity smiled upon him his fingers lost their compression nor did Virtue offer to catch the money as it fell it had no sooner reached the ground than the watchful cur a trick he had been taught snapped it up and contrary to the most approved method of stewardship delivered it immediately into the hands of his master.

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