12 found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

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And he said, Behold now: I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall twenty be 14 found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

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And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found 16 there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left com17 muning with Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his own place.

Sentence 1st.-Semi-interrogative, with close construction.

Sentence 2d.-Peradventure is here the equivalent of if: the semi-interroga tive therefore has a compact construction. Sentence 3d.-An indirect interrog. compound perfect loose: first part imperf. loose.

If music be the food of love, play on :
1 Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again: it had a dying fall:
2 O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets :

3 Stealing and giving odor.-Enough: no more;
"T is not so sweet now as it was before.-

Shakspeare.

Sentence 3d.-No more, and what follows, form the first and second parts of a double compact; but it is to be observed that the second part, is in turn the first part of another, of which the other parts are suppressed. "Play no more, for therefore it is not, &c."

SEC. LXXXIX. THE APPROACH TO PALMYRA.

1 Upon this boundless desert we now soon entered. The 2 scene which it presented was more dismal than I can describe. A red moving sand, or hard and baked by the heat of a sun such as Rome never knows; low gray rocks just rising here and there above the level of the plain, with now and then the dead and glittering trunk of a vast cedar, whose roots seemed as if they had outlasted centuries; the 3 bones of camels and elephants, scattered on either hand, dazzling the sight by reason of their excessive whiteness; at a distance, occasionally an Arab of the desert, for a moment surveying our long line, and then darting off to his fastnesses; these were the objects which, with scarce any

variation, met our eyes during the four wearisome days, that we dragged ourselves over this wild and inhospitable region. A little after the noon of the fourth day, as we started on our way, having refreshed ourselves and our exhausted animals at a spring which here poured out its warm, 4 but still grateful waters to the traveler, my ears received the agreeable news that toward the east there could now be discerned the dark line which indicated our approach to the verdant tract that encompasses the great city. Our own excited spirits were quickly imparted to our beasts; 5 and a more rapid movement soon revealed into distinctness, the high land and waving groves of palm trees which mark the site of Palmyra. It was several miles before we reach6 ed the city, that we suddenly found ourselves, landing, as it were, from a sea upon an island or continent, in a rich and thickly peopled country. The roads indicated an approach. 7 to a great capital, in the number of those who thronged them meeting and passing us, overtaking or crossing our path. Elephants, camels, and the dromedary, which I had 8 before seen only in the amphitheatres, I here beheld as the native inhabitants of the soil. Frequent villas of the rich 9 and luxurious Palmyrenes, to which they retreat from the greater heats of the city, now threw a lovely charm over 10 the scene. Nothing can exceed the splendor of these 11 sumptuous palaces. Italy itself has nothing which surpasses them. The new and brilliant costumes of the per12 sons whom we met, together with the rich housings of the animals they rode, seemed greatly to add to all this beauty. I was still entranced, as it were, by the objects around me, 13 and buried in reflection, when I was roused by the shout of those who led the caravan, and who had attained the summit of a little rising ground: saying, Palmyra! Palmyra! I urged forward my steed; and, in a moment, the 14 most wonderful prospect I ever beheld, (no, I cannot except even Rome,) burst upon my sight. Flanked by hills of 15 considerable elevation on the east, the city filled the whole plain below as far as the eye could reach, both toward the 16 north and toward the south. This immense plain was all 17 one vast and boundless city. It seemed, to me, to be larger 18 than Rome. Yet I knew very well that it could not be ;—

that it was not. And it was some time before I understood the true character of the scene before me, so as to separate 19 the city from the country, and the country from the city; which here wonderfully interpenetrate each other, and so confound and deceive the observer.

Ware.

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SEC. XC. SOLILOQUY OF PAROLLES.

Ten o'clock: within these three hours 't will be time 2 enough to go home? What shall I say I have done? It 3 must be a very plausive invention that carries it; they begin to smoke me; and disgraces have, of late, knocked too often at my door. I find my tongue is too fool-hardy; but 4 my heart hath the fear of Mars before it, and of his creatures: not daring the reports of my tongue. What should

5 move me to undertake the recovery: being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I 6 must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in exploit. 7 Yet slight ones will not carry it; they will say, Came you 8 off with so little? and great ones I dare not give. Wherefore? 9 What's the instance? Tongue, I must put you 10 into a butter-woman's mouth and buy another of Bajazet's mute, if you prattle me in these perils.-I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn; or the breaking of 11 my Spanish sword; or the shaving of my beard; and to say, it was in stratagem; or to drown my clothes, and say, I was stripped; though I swore I leaped from the window 12 of the citadel, thirty fathom. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would swear I recovered it.

Shakspeare.

Sentence 3d.-A declar. single compact, third form: a perfect loose declar. in the second part. "Therefore it must, &c., because they begin, &c." Sentence 7th.-"Yet therefore slight, &c., for or because they will, &c." Sentence 11th.— "Yet I would, &c., though I swore, &c."

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Salar.

SEC. XCI. THE JEW'S DEFENCE.

But tell us do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no?

2 Shy. There I have another bad match. A bankrupt, a 3 prodigal, who dares scarce show his head on the Rialto: a beggar, that used to come so smug upon the mart!--Let 4 him look to his bond: he was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a christian courtesy; let him look to his bond.

5 Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh; what's that good for?

6 Shy. To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hin7 dered me of half a million; laughed at my losses; mocked my gains; scorned my nation; thwarted my bargains; cooled my friends; heated my enemies; and what's his

8 reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? 9 is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you 10 tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we 11 are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If 12 a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? 13 Re14 venge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his suf15 ferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The 16 villainy you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. Shakspeare.

Sentence 4th." Since he was wont, therefore." Sentence 5th.-"Why do you say so! If he forfeit, then, therefore, &c., because what's that good for "

SEC. XCII. A SISTER'S INTERCESSION.

1

Isab. To-morrow! 2 O, that's sudden!

3 Spare him!

spare him!

Even for our kitchens,

4 He's not prepared for death!

5 We kill the fowls of season; shall we serve Heaven,

With less respect than we do minister

6 To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you: Who is it that hath died for this offence ?

7 There's many have committed it?

Ang. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept :

8 Those many had not dared to do that evil,

If the first man that did the edict infringe,
Had answered for his deed.

Shakspeare.

Sentence 1st.-Fragment. simp. def. interrog. exclam. Sentence 5th.-" If even then shall we, &c." Sentence 7th.-A compound close indirect interrogative Sentence 8th.-"Yet the law, though it, &c." "Then those, if the, &c."

SEC. XCIII. THE INFLUENCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE ON OUR

JUDGMENTS.

The crow does sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither, is attended; and, I think,

1 The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought,
No better a musician than the wren.

2 How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise, and true perfection!

Shakspeare.

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SEC. XCIV. THE PERILS OF THE DESERT.

Not a cloud was to be seen in all the compass of the heavens, yet the winds raged. The blueness of the sky 2 was gone; and the whole inflamed dome above us was rather of the color of molten brass: the sun being but its brightest and hottest spot. At a distance, we saw clouds 3 of sand whirled aloft, and driven fiercely over the boundless plain; any one of which, it seemed to us, if it should cross our path, would bury us under its moving mass. We press4 ed on, trembling and silent through apprehension. The 5 blood in my veins seemed hotter than the sand, or the sun 6 that beat upon my face. Roman, thou canst form no con7 ception of the horrors of that day. But for my faith, I 8 should have utterly failed. What couldst thou have done? 9 nay, or the christian Probus? But I will not taunt thee; I 10 will rather hope.-The wind became more and more vio

lent: the sand was driven before it like chaff. Sometimes 11 the tempest immediately around us would abate, but it only served to fill us with new apprehensions, by revealing to us the tossings of this great deep in the distance. At one of these moments, as I was taking occasion to speak a word 12 of comfort to the half dead mother, and cherish the little one whom I bore, a sound as of the roar of ocean caught my ear; (more awful than aught I had yet heard ;) and at the same time a shriek and a shout from Hadad: "God of 13 Israel, save us! The sand! the sand!"

I looked in the direction of the sound; and there in the 14 south it looked, (Oh God! how terrible to behold!) as if the whole plain were risen up, and were about to fall upon us.

""T is vain to fly!" I cried aloud to Hadad, who was 15 urging his animal to its utmost speed; "let us perish together: besides, observe the heaviest and thickest of the cloud is in advance of us."

The mother of the child cried out, as Hadad insanely 16 hastened on, for her offspring; to whom I answered: "Trust the young Ismael to me: fear me not; cling to the dromedary."

17 Hardly were the words spoken, when the whirlwind 18 struck us. We were dashed to the earth, as we had been 19 weeds. My senses were, for a time, lost in the confusion

of the scene. I only knew that I had been torn from my 20 dromedary, borne along, and buried by the sand; and that the young child was still in my arms. In the first mo 21 ment of consciousness, I found myself struggling to free