express laws of God, and the lawful commands of men: not in a furious zeal for or against trivial circumstances, but in conscientiously practising the substantial parts of religion: not in a frequent talking or contentious disputing about it, but in a ready observance of the unquestionable rules and precepts of it; in a word, in nothing else but doing what becomes our relation with God. Barrows. This is an imperfect loose sentence, consisting of double compact parts SEC. CXV. THE SOLILOQUY OF KING RICHARD III. 1 Give me another horse :-bind up my wounds :-Have mercy, Jesus :-soft: I did but dream ?— 2 O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me !3 The lights burn blue.-4 It is now dead midnight.5 What do I fear? 6 Myself? 7 There's none else by . 8 Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. 9 Is there a murderer here ? 10 No: yes; I am. 11 Then fly. 12 What? 13 From myself? son; why? 14 Great rea 15 Lest I revenge. 16 What? 17 Myself on myself? 18 I love myself? 19 Wherefore? 20 For any good That I myself have done unto myself? 21 O, no, alas! I rather hate myself, For hateful deeds committed by myself. 22 I am a villain: yet I lie; I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well :-fool, do not flatter :23 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues; And every tongue brings in a several tale; And every tale condemns me for a villain. Nay; wherefore should they; since that I myself Methought the souls of all that I had murdered 27 Came to my tent, and every one did threat To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard. Shakspeare. Sentence 1st.-A semi-interrogative, with a loose construction: the interroga. tive portion, indirect, of the third kind. Sentence 7th.-An indirect simple in terrogative of the third kind. Sentence 10th." Therefore yes, for I am." Sen tence 12th.-"Fly from what !" Sentence 13th.-"Shall I fly from myself?" Sentence 14th.-"I have great reason, indeed, to fly from myself, but why " Sentence 16th.-"Revenge what " Sentence 18th.-An indirect interrogative Sentence 19th.-" Wherefore do I love myself?" Sentence 20th." Do I love myself for any good, &c.?" A close definite interrog. Sentence 21st.-" O, therefore, no, for alas! I rather, &c." Sentence 22d." Therefore I lie, for I am not." Sentence 26th." As there is no creature, &c., so if I die, &c. ;" and "as they will not, so wherefore should they." Sentence 27th." As the souls of all, &c., so every one." SEC. CXVI. WEBSTER'S REPLY TO HAYNE. 1 This interrogatory of the honorable member was only introductory to another. He proceeded to ask me, whether I had turned upon him in this debate, from the consciousness 2 that I should find an overmatch, if I ventured on a contest with his friend from Missouri. If the honorable me mber, from modesty, had chosen thus to defer to his friend, and to pay 3 him a compliment, without intentional disparagement to others, it would have been quite according to the friendly courtesies of debate, and not at all ungrateful to my own feelings. I am not one of those, who esteem any tribute of 4 regard, whether light and occasional, or more serious and deliberate, which may be bestowed upon others, as so much unjustly withholden from themselves. But the tone and 5 manner of the gentleman's question, forbid me that I thus interpret it. I am not at liberty to consider it as nothing more than a civility to his friend; it had an air of taunt 6 and disparagement, a little of the loftiness of asserted superiority, which does not allow me to pass it over without notice. It was put as a question for me to answer, (and 7 so put, as if it were difficult for me to answer,) whether I deemed the member from Missouri an overmatch for myself, in debate here. It seems to me, that this is extraor8 dinary language, and an extraordinary tone, for the discus9 sion of this body? Matches and overmatches! Those 10 terms are more applicable elsewhere than here, and fitter 11 for other assemblies than this? The gentleman seems to 12 forget where and what we are. This is a senate: a senate of equals; of men of individual honor and personal charac13 ter, and of absolute independence. We know no masters": 14 we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition 15 of champions. I offer myself as a match for no man': I throw the challenge of debate at no man's feet. But, then, since the honorable member has put the question, in a manner that calls for an answer, I will give him an answer; and I tell him, that holding myself to be the humblest 16 of the members here, I yet know nothing in the arm of his friend from Missouri, either alone, or when aided by the arm of his friend from South Carolina, that need deter even me from espousing whatever opinions I may choose to es pouse, from debating whatever I may choose to debate, or from speaking whatever I may see fit to say, on the floor of the senate. Webster. Sentence 8th.-A compound close indirect interrogative. Sentence 9th.-Compound close definite interrogative. Sentence 10th.-Compound imperf. loose in direct interrogative. Sentence 14th.-A double compact decl., with the parts transposed SEC. CXVII. MEXICO AS FIRST SEEN BY THE SPAN ARDS. The troops, refreshed by a night's rest, succeeded, early 1 on the following day, in gaining the crest of the sierra of Ahualco; which stretches like a curtain between the two great mountains on the north and south. Their progress 2 was now comparatively easy; and they marched forward with a buoyant step, as they felt they were treading the soil of Montezuma. They had not advanced far, when, turning an angle of 3 the sierra, they suddenly came on a view which more than compensated the toils of the preceding day. It was that of the valley of Mexico; (or Tenochtitlan, as more com4 monly called by the natives ;) which, with its picturesque assemblage of water, woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities, and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly 5 rarefied atmosphere of these upper regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of coloring and a distinctness of outline which seems to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, syca6 more and cedar; and beyond, yellow fields of maize, and the towering maguey, intermingled with orchards and blooming gardens; for flowers, in such demand for their religious festivals, were even more abundant in this populous valley than in other parts of Anahuac. In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes: occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly 7 studded with towns and hamlets; and, in the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters: the farfamed Venice of the Aztecs.' High above all, arose the 8 royal hill of Chapoltepec, (the residence of the Mexican monarchs,) crowned with the same grove of gigantic cypresses, which at this day fling their broad shadows over the land. In the distance, beyond the blue waters of the lake, and nearly screened by the intervening foliage, was 9 seen, (a shining speck,) the rival capital Tezcuco; and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels. Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the conquerors; and even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene; when the stately forests have been laid low, and the soil, unsheltered from the fierce radiance of a tropical sun, is in many places abandoned to sterility; when the waters have retired, leaving a broad 10 and ghastly margin, white with the incrustation of salts, while the cities and hamlets on their borders have moldered into ruins ;- -even now that desolation broods over the landscape, so indestructible are the lines of beauty which nature has traced on its features, that no traveller, however cold, can gaze on them with any other emotions, than those of astonishment and rapture. What, then, must have been the emotions of the Spaniards, when, after working their 11 toilsome way into the upper air, the cloudy tabernacle parted before their eyes, and they beheld these fair scenes in all their pristine magnificence and beauty! It was like 12 the spectacle which greeted the eyes of Moses from the summit of Pisgah; and, in the warm glow of their feelings, they cried out,' It is the promised land!' Prescott. SEC. CXVIII. THE EFFECTS OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with 1 God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulation, also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope"; and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of 2 God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is given unto us; for when we were yet without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly; for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die; but God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more, then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him; 3 for if, when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 4 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom we have now received the atonement. 1 SEC. CXIX. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. Behold the child among his new-born blisses: See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies: A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart; To dialogues of business, love or strife; Ere this be thrown aside; And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part: Filling from time to time his "humorous stage," Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, |