of mind', and firmi ess of soul', are gifts of nature. Wit, grace, and beauty, are captivating. The warbling of birds', the murmuring of streams', the enamel of meadows', the coolness of woods', the fragrance of flowers', and the sweet smell of plants', contribute greatly to the pleasures of the mind' and the health of the body. The diversity of objects, the extent of the horizon, the immense height, the country like a map at your feet, the ocean around, the heavens above, conspire to overwhelm the mind. That faith which is one, that faith which renews and justifies all who profess it, that faith which confessions and formularies can never adequately express, is the property of all alike. A mind bold, independent and decisive, a will despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expedit.on, and a conscience pliable to every touch of self-interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character.

He who follows the pleasures of the world, which are in their very nature disappointing, is in constant search of care, solicitude, .remorse and confusion. Notwithstanding all the pains which Cicero took in the education of his son', history informs us, that nature rendered him incapable of improving by all the rules of eloquence', the precepts of philosophy', his own endeavors', and the most refined conversation of Athens. His library consisted, as far as I can remember, of several volumes of sermons', a concordance', Thomas a Kempis', Antoninus' Meditations', the works of the author of the Whole Duty of Man', a translation of Boethius', the original editions of the Spectator and Guardian', Cowley's Poems', Dryden's Works', Baker's Chronicle', Burnet's History of his own times', Lamb's Royal Cookery', Abercromby's Scots Warriors', and Nisbet's Heraldry. Those who fell victims to their principles in the civil convulsions of the short-lived republics of Greece, or who sunk beneath the power of her invading foes; those victims of Austrian tyranny in Switzerland, and of Spanish tyranny in Holland; the solitary champions, or the united bands of high-minded and patriotic men who have in any region or age, struggled and suffered in this great cause; belong that people of the free, whose fortunes and progress are the most noble theme which man can contemplate.

Besides the ignorance of masters who teach the first rudiments of reading, and the want of skill, or negligence in that article, of those who teach the learned languages; besides the erroneous manner, which the untutored pupil falls into, through the want of early attention in masters, to correct small faults in the beginning, which increase and gain strength with years; besides bad habits contracted from imitation of particular per

sons, or the contagion of example; from a general prevalence of a certain tone or cant in reading or reciting, peculiar to each school, and regularly transmitted from one generation to another: besides all these, which are fruitful sources of vicious elocution; there is one fundamental error in the method universally used in teaching to read, which at first gives a wrong bias, and leads us ever after blindfold from the right path, under the guidance of a false rule.

From the worm that grovels in the dust beneath our feet, to the track of the leviathan in the foaming deep; from the moth that corrupts the secret treasure, to the eagle that soars above eyry in the clouds; from the wild ass in the desert, to the lamb within the shepherd's fold; from the consuming beast, to the cattle upon a thousand hills; from the rose of Sharon, to the cedar of Lebanon; from the crystal stream, gushing forth out of the flinty rock, to the wide waters of the deluge; from the lonely path of the wanderer, to the gathering of a mighty multitude; from the tear that falls in secret, to the din of battle, and the shout of a triumphant host; from the solitary in the wilderness, to the satrap on the throne; from the mourner clad in sackcloth, to the prince in purple robes; from the gnawings of the worm that dieth not, to the seraphic visions of the blessed; from the still small voice, to the thunders of Omnipotence; from the depths of hell, to the regions of eternal glory; there is no degree of beauty or deformity, no tendency to good or evil, no shade of darkness nor gleam of light, which does not come within the cognizance of the holy Scriptures.

Our immense extent of fertile territory opening an inexhaustible field for successful enterprise, thus assuring to industry a certain reward for its labors, and preserving the land, for centuries to come, from the manifold evils of an over-crowded, and consequently degraded population; our magnificent system of federated republics, carrying out and applying the principles of representative democracy to an extent never hoped or imagined in the boldest theories of the old speculative republican philosophers, the Harringtons, Sydneys, and Lockes of former times; the reaction of our political system upon our social and domestic concerns, bringing the influence of popular feeling and public opinion to bear upon all the affairs of life in a degree hitherto wholly unprecedented; the unconstrained range of freedom of opinion, of speech, and of the press, and the habitual and daring exercise of that liberty upon the highest subjects; the absence of all serious inequality of fortune and rank in the condition of our citizens; our divisions into innumerable religious sects, and the consequent co-existence, never before regarded as possible, of intense religious zeal,

with a great degree of toleration in feeling and perfect equality of rights; our intimate connection with that elder world beyond the Atlantic, communicating to us, through the press and emigration, much of good and much of evil not our own, high science, refined art, and the best knowledge of old experience, as well as prejudices and luxuries, vices and crimes, such as could not have been expected to spring up in our soil for ages;-all these, combined with numerous other peculiarities in the institutions, and in the moral, civil and social condition of the American people, have given to our society, through all its relations, a character exclusively its own.

The sick untended then',

Languished in the dark shade, and died afar from men.

In man or woman', but far most in man',
And most of all in man that ministers
And serves the altar', in my soul I loathe
All affectation.

He that negotiates between God and man
As God's ambassador, the grand concerns
Of judgment and of mercy', should beware
Of lightness in his speech.

He that attends to his interior self,

That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it, and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,

Has business.

Whatever fruits in different climes are found
That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground;
Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear,
Whose bright succession decks the varied year;
Whatever sweets salute the northern sky
With. vernal lines that blossom but to die ;—
These, here disporting, own a kindred soil,
Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil.

The hills

Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between,
The venerable woods, rivers that move

In majesty, and the complaining brooks

That make the meadows green, and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,

Are but the solemn decorations all

Of the great tomb of man.

As

This royal throne of kings; this sceptred isle;
This earth of majesty; this seat of Mars;
This other Eden, demi-paradise ;

This fortress, built by nature for herself,
Against infection, and the hand of war;
This precious stone, set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happy lands;

This blessed spot; this earth; this realm; this England;
This nurse; this teeming womb of Royal Kings,
Feared by their breed, and famous by their birth ;
Renowned for their deeds, as far from home

As is the sepulchre, in stubborn Jewry,

Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son:

This land of such dear souls; this dear, dear land;
Dear for her reputation, through the world;

Is now leased out, (I die pronouncing it,)

Like to a tenement or paltry farm.

2. Examples of the Compact.

1. Of the Single Compact.

(See definition of a Single Compact.)

1. With both of the correlative words expressed.

ye have received Christ', so walk ye in him.

As in Adam all die', so in Christ shall all be made alive. As the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven shineth unto the other part under heaven', so shall the Son of Man be in his day.

As in private character, adversity is often requisite to give a proper direction and temper to strong qualities', so the noblest traits of a national character, even under the freest and most independent of hereditary governments, are commonly to be sought in the ranks of a minority, or of a dissenting sect.

As the middle, and the fairest, and the most conspicuous places in cities, are usually chosen for the erection of statues and monuments dedicated to the memory of worthy men who have nobly deserved of their country'; so should we in the heart and centre of our soul, in the best and highest apartment thereof, in the places most exposed to ordinary observations, and most secure from worldly care, erect lively representations, and lasting memorials of divine bounty.

As no cause

For such exalted confidence could e'er
Exist', so none is now for fixed despair.

As pants the hart for cooling streams,
When heated in the chase';

So longs my soul, O God, for thee,
And thy refreshing grace.

As men from men

Do, in the constitution of their souls,
Differ by mysteries not to be explained';
And as we fall by various ways, and sink
Through manifold degrees of guilt and shame';
So manifold and various are the ways

Of restoration.

As when a traveller, a long day past

In painful search of what he cannot find,
At night's approach, content with the next cot,
There ruminates, awhile, his labor lost,

Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords
And chants a sonnet to deceive the time,
Till the due season calls him to repose;
Thus I, long travelled in the ways of men,
And dancing, with the rest, the giddy maze,
Where disappointment smiles at hope's career;
Warned by the languor of life's evening ray,
At length have housed me in an humble shed;
Where future wandering banished from my thought,
And, waiting, patient, the sweet hour of rest,

I chase the moments with a serious song.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily', therefore the heart of the sons of men, is fully set in them to do evil.

Because he saw his head higher, his arms stronger, his sword and spear larger, his shield heavier than any Israelite's, therefore he defies the whole host.

For that [because] they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof, therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life.

Profit is therefore so much affected and pursued, because it is, or doth seem, apt to procure or promote some good desira

ble to us.