320 TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS EXEMPLIFIED. WORTH OF HUMAN NATURE. laps. ୭ No. 1.Where, unreasonable complainer! dost thou stand, and what S. Caps. 2. is around thee The world spreads before its sublime .c. 3. mysteries, where the thoughts ofsages lose themselves in won 4. der; the ocean lifts up its etinal anthems to thine ear; the # 5. golden sun lights thy path; the wide Heavens stretch them- h 6. selves above thee, and worlds rise upon worlds, and systems/9 7. beyond systems, to infinity; and dost thou stand in centre of the no8. all this, to complain of thy lot and place?, break] 9. Pupil of that infinite teaching minister at Nature's great 10. altar! child of heaven's favor! ennobled being! redeemed 11. creature! must thou pine in moping and envious melancholy, sullen T 12. amidst the plenitude of the whole creation? But thy neigh13. bor is above thee, thou sayest. What then? What is that to Rom. 14. thee? What though the shout of millions rose around him? 15. What is that to the million voiced nature that God has given 3/11/ 17. but thy nature thy favored, sacred, and glorious nature is It 18. thine; it is the reality, to which praise is but a fleeting breath. Lead 19. Thou canst meditate the things which ppplouse but cele- applause 20. brates. 21. I Lead In that thou art a man, thou art (exalted infinitely above what tr. 22. any man can be, in that that he is praised. I would rather be Stet. 23. the humblest man in the world, than barely be thought greater Ital. 24. than the greatest. Not one of the crowds that listened to 25. the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero, - not one who has w hace 6 bent with admiration over the pages of Homer and Shake-2y.§) better ## 27. speare, not one who followed in the train of Caesar or of 28. Napoleon, (would part with the humblest power of thought, 29. for all the faye that is echoing over the world and through m 30. the ages. Dewey. S. Caps. as a man, than king. 321 PRECEDING PAGE AFTER CORRECTION. WORTH OF HUMAN NATURE. WHERE, unreasonable complainer! dost thou stand, and what is around thee? The world spreads before thee its sublime mysteries, where the thoughts of sages lose themselves in wonder; the ocean lifts up its eternal anthems to thine ear; the golden sun lights thy path; the wide heavens stretch themselves above thee, and worlds rise upon worlds, and systems beyond systems, to infinity; and dost thou stand in the centre of all this, to complain of thy lot and place? Pupil of that infinite teaching! minister at Nature's great altar! child of Heaven's favor! ennobled being! redeemed creature! must thou pine in sullen and envious melancholy, amidst the plenitude of the whole creation? "But thy neighbor is above thee," thou sayest. What then? What is that to thee? What though the shout of millions rose around him? What is that to the million-voiced nature that God has given thee? That shout dies away into the vacant air; it is not his but thy nature - thy favored, sacred, and glorious nature is thine. It is the reality, to which praise is but a fleeting breath. Thou canst meditate the things which applause but celebrates. In that thou art a man, thou art infinitely exalted above what any man can be, in that he is praised. I would rather be the humblest man in the world, than barely be thought greater than the greatest. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Not one of the crowds that listened to the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero, not one who has bent with admiration over the pages of Homer and Shakspeare, not one who followed in the train of Cæsar or of Napoleon, would part with the humblest power of thought, for all the fame that is echoing over the world and through the ages. DEWEY. INDE X. A. Abbreviations require periods after "Above all," as an adverbial phrase, pointed with a comma, 72, a. 66 Accordingly," 72, a. Adjectives, two, without a conjunc- tion between them, 33, 34, d—g. solidated with nouns, 215. Adverbs, 29, d; 30, j; 33, d; 34, e, j; Adverbial phrases, 22, VI. ;' 72–74. Algebraic signs, list of, 301. "And," between two words of the tween two short clauses, a verb Apostrophe, rules and remarks on Appellations of God and Christ, ini- ors, for references, 240. "As," signifying in the manner in "As-as," "as-so," the correla- "As well as," between two words "As yet," and similar phrases, 72, a "As," "namely," &c., 128; 138, d. three asterisks, 237, V. Authors, the duty of, to point their B. "Because," the comma sometimes omitted before, 89, e. "Besides," used as a preposition or a conjunction, 74, j. Bible references, how pointed, 100, j; Blank at the beginning of a poetical Blunders in sense caused by a habit Brace, for what purpose used, 231 "But," between two words con- Between a word and a phrase, or Capitals, their uses and applications, Cedilla, the, 239, XII. Change of subject, abrupt, preceded Chanting service in the Liturgy, a colon inserted in each verse of, 141. Chapters of the Bible referred to by numeral letters, 150, V., 1; 151, b. |