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The sun was now resting his huge disk upon 1 of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day; and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Still, 2 however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors : forming out of their unsubstantial gloom, the show of pyramids and towers; some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched be3 neath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting. Nearer to the 4 beach, the tide rippled onward in waves of sparkling silver, that imperceptibly, yet rapidly, gained upon the sand.

With a mind employed in admiration of the romantic 5 scene, or perhaps on some more agitating topic, Miss Wardour advanced in silence by her father's side; whose recently offended dignity did not stoop to open any conversation. Following the windings of the beach, they passed 6 one projecting point or headland of rock after another, and now found themselves under a huge and continued extent of the precipices by which that iron-bound coast is in most places defended. Long projecting reefs of rock, extending 7 under water, and only evincing their existence by here and there a peak entirely bare, or by the breakers which foamed over those that were partially covered, rendered Knockwinnock bay dreaded by pilots and ship-masters. The 8 crags which rose between the beach and the mainland, to the height of two or three hundred feet, afforded in their crevices shelter for unnumbered sea-fowl, in situations seemingly secured by their dizzy height from the rapacity of man. Many of these wild tribes, with the instinct which 9 sends them to seek the land before a storm arises, were now winging toward their nests with the shrill and dissonant clang which announces disquietude and fear.

The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere 10 he had altogether sunk below the horizon; and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of evening. The wind began next to arise; but its wild and moan11 ing sound was heard for some time, and its effects became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, be

12 gan to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows; forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder.

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Appalled by this sudden change of weather, Miss Wardour drew close to her father, and held his arm fast. “I 14 wish," at length she said, but almost in a whisper, as if ashamed to express her increasing apprehension, "I wish we had kept the road we intended, or waited at Monkbarns for the carriage." Sir Walter Scott.

Sentence 2d. The last part may be treated either as a single compact, third form, or a perfect loose. I prefer the former, with the correlative words, as— so, thus: as with gold, with purple, so with dark red." A similar construction is, "Either John did it, William did it, or James did it." Sentence 14th.—I wish we had either kept, or had waited.

SEC. XVII.

BEAUTY: A FRAIL POSSESSION.

Beauty is but a vain, a fleeting good:
A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly:
1 A flower that dies, when almost in the bud:
A brittle glass that breaketh presently:
A fleeting good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead, within an hour.

As goods, when lost, we know, are seldom found;
As fading gloss no rubbing can excite :

2 As flowers, when dead, are trampled on the ground;
As broken glass no cement can unite;

So beauty, blemished once, is ever lost,

In spite of physic, painting, pains and cost. Shakspeare.

SEC. XVIII. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GOODNESS AND

HAPPINESS.

1 To be good, is to be happy: angels

Are happier than men, because they're better.
Guilt is the source of sorrow: 'tis the fiend,
The avenging fiend, that follows us behind

2 With whips and stings: the blest know none of this,
But rest in everlasting peace of mind,

And find the height of all their heaven is goodness.

Rowe.

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SEC. XIX. THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been 2 here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now

whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 3 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha 4 saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection of the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the 5 resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and 6 believeth in me, shall never die. Believest thou this? 7 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the son of God, who should come into the world. 8 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly saying, The Master has come, 9 and calleth for thee. As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him. Now Jesus was not yet 10 come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

The Jews, then, who were with her in the house, and 11 comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her: saying, She goeth unto the grave, to weep there.

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Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet: saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. When 13 Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weep

ing who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was 14 troubled, and said, where have ye laid him! They say 15 unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept- 16 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! And some of 17 them said, Could not this man who openeth the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have 18 died? Jesus, therefore again groaning in himself, cometh 19 to the grave. It was a cave; and a stone lay upon it. 20 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister 21 of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he

stinketh; for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith 22 unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?

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Then they took away the stone from the place where the 24 dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew 25 that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. When he had thus spoken, he cried with a 26 loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! and he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and 27 his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Sentence 2d.-The first part of a declarative compact; i. e. fragmentary compact correlative words, therefore-because. The second part beginning with because, assigning a reason for her thus knowing, is understood.

Sentence 4th.-Just like the preceding, with the reason for knowing under stood.

SEC. XX. THE INFLUENCE OF ELEGANT LITERATURE.

There also are the eloquence, the literature, the poetry of all times and tongues: those glorious efforts of genius that rule, with a never dying sway, over our sympathies 1 and affections: commanding our smiles and tears; kindling the imagination; warming the heart; filling the fancy with beauty; and awing the soul with the sublime, the terrible, the powerful, the infinite.

Ye grand inventions of ancient bards! ye gay creations 2 of modern fancy! ye bright visions! ye fervid and impassioned thoughts! serve ye all for no better purpose than the pastime of an idle hour?

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Ah! not so: not so. It is yours to stir to the bottom the dull and stagnant soul: ye can carry man out of himself and make him feel his kindred with his whole race: ye can teach him to look beyond external and physical na4 ture for enjoyment and for power; ye rouse him from the deep lethargy of sense, raise him above "the worthless thing we are," and reveal to him his capacity for purer purposes, and a nobler state of being. Verplanck.

Sentence 2d.-Semi-interrogative: first part compound compellative exclamatory; and the second, compound definite compact. The two parts relatively form a close sentence. The exclamation points represent commas. Sentence 3d.-A compound declarative perfect loose, preceded by the spontaneous exclamation ah! which is here merely the key-note of the sentence.

SEC. XXI. THE POOR WIDOW.

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury; and he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites; and he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all; for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God; but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

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SEC. XXII. THE VALUE OF PUBLIC FAITH.

To expatiate on the value of public faith may pass with some men for declamation: to such men I have nothing to

say. To others, I will urge, can any circumstance mark upon a people more turpitude and debasement? can any 2 thing tend more to make men think themselves mean; or to degrade to a lower point their estimation of virtue, and their standard of action?

It would not merely demoralize mankind; it tends to break all the ligaments of society; to dissolve that mys3 terious charm which attracts individuals to the nation; and to inspire in its stead a repulsive sense of shame and disgust.

What is patriotism?

4 Is it a narrow affection for the 5 spot where a man was born? are the very clods where we tread entitled to this ardent preference because they are greener? No, sir, this is not the character of the virtue, 6 and it soars higher for its object: it is an extended selflove: mingling with all the enjoyments of life, and twisting itself with the minutest filaments of the heart. It is 7 thus we obey the laws of society, because they are the laws of virtue. In their authority we see, not the array 8 of force and terror, but the venerable image of our coun9 try's honor. Every good citizen makes that honor his own; and cherishes it, not only as precious, but as sacred: he is willing to risk his life in its defence, and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it; for what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a state renounces the principles that constitute their security? Or, if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoy10 ments be in a country, odious in the eye of strangers and 11 dishonored in his own? Could he look with affection and

veneration to such a country as his parent? The sense of 12 having one would die within him: he would blush for his

patriotism, if he retained any; and justly; for it would be 13 a vice. He would be a banished man in his native land. Ames.

Sentence 6th.-No, is followed by its equivalent: and, after virtue, is clearly used instead of for. The whole sentence is then a compound double compact, with the first, second and third propositions or parts expressed. The connective between the second and third part understood; and the third part a perfect loose declarative.

Sentence 10th.-Contrast between the first part of the semi-interrogative and the first part of the preceding; which requires for the former a delivery with artial close.

SEC. XXIII. A MORAL CHANGE ALLEGORICALLY DESCRIBED.

1 I was a stricken deer, that left the herd
Long since. With many an arrow deep infixed
2 My panting side was charged, when I withdrew

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