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LESSON LXXXVII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. PHAL' ANX, dense crowd, or column. 2. ARCH' ED, curved; concave. 3. Dar sy, (literally day's eye,) a little flower that opens only during daylight. 4. MOLD, shape; form. 5. GOLD-EM BOSS' ED, ornamented with various figures, as of gold. 6. UN RE STRAIN' ED, loose; unconfined. 7. STAMP, impress.

THE DAISY.

1. Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep,
Need we to prove a God is here;
The daisy fresh from winter's sleep,

Tells of His hand in lines as clear.

J. M. GOOD.

2. For who but He that arched the skies,
And pours the day-spring's living flood,
Wondrous alike in all He tries,

Could rear the daisy's purple bud?

3. Mold its green cup, its wiry stem,
Its fringéd border nicely spin,
And cut the gold-embosséd gem,
That, set in silver, gleams within?

4. Then fling it, unrestrained and free,
O'er hill, and dale, and desert sod,
That man, where'er he walks, may see,
In every step, the stamp of God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What little flower shows the power of God, just as well as the whole world? 2. How does it show this! 3. What is the literal meaning of the word daisy?

LESSON LXXXVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.—1. Vault, a continued arch. 2. TOR' RENTS, rapid streams. 3. SAV' AGE, barbarous; uncivilized. 4. DELLS, little valleys. 5. CLIFFS, steep rocks. 6. MON' STERS, animals out of the common order of nature. 7. QUELL, to assuage; calm. 8. VIEW' LESS, invisible; unseen.

Articulate distinctly nd'st in bend'st, pths in depths, rbs in orbs, &c

GOD IS EVERYWHERE.

1. (8) Oh! show me where is he,
The high and hōly One,

HUGH HUTTX.

To whom thou bend'st the knee,
And pray'st: "Thy will be done"?
I hear thy voice of praise,

And, lo! no form is near;

Thine eyes I see thee raise,

But where doth God appear?

Oh! teach me who is God, and where his glories shine, may kneel and pray, and call thy Father mine.

That I

2. Gaze on that arch above,

The glittering vault admire!
Who taught those orbs to move?
Who lit their ceaseless fire?
Who guides the moon to run
In silence through the skies?
Who bids that dawning sun

In strength and beauty rise?
There view immensity!-behold! my God is there;
The sun, the moon, the stars, his majesty declare!

3. See, where the mountains rise;
Where thundering torrents foam;
Where, vailed in lowering skies,
The eagle makes his home;
Where savage nature dwells,
My God is present too;
Through all her wildest dells

His footsteps I pursue.

He reared those giant cliffs-supplies that dashing streamProvides the daily food, which stills the wild bird's scream!

4. Look on that world of waves,
Where finny nations glide;
Within whose deep, dark caves,
The ocean-monsters hide!
His power is sovereign there,

To raise to quell the storm;

The depths his bounty share,

Where sport the scaly swarm:

Tempests and calms obey the same Almighty voice,
Which rules the earth and skies, and bids the world rejoice!

5. Nor eye nor thought can soar
Where moves not he in might;
He swells the thunder's roar,
He spreads the wings of night.
Oh! praise the works divine!
Bow down thy soul in prayer!
Nor ask for other sign,

That God is everywhere;

The viewless Spirit he-immortal, holy, blessed—
Oh! worship him in faith, and find eternal rest.

QUESTIONS.-1. What objects in nature are pointed to, in this piece, as displaying the presence and power of God? 2. What exhorta

tion in the last stanza? 3. What is meant by "finny nations"?

What kind of emphasis on thy and mine, 1st stanza! With what tone of voice should most of this poetry be read? Why? Ses Rem. p. 24.

LESSON LXXXIX.

5. LU' RID

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AD VERS' I TY, misfortune. 2. RE VERS' ES changes; vicissitudes. 3. DE SPOND' EN CY, a sinking of spirits hopelessness. 4. DIS AS' TER, calamity; misfortune. gloomy; dismal. 6. CONTRAST, opposite state or condition. 7. IM PE' RI OUS LY, haughtily. 8. TYR' AN NY, oppressive rule; severity. 9. POIGN' ANT, sharp; keen; severe. 10. AN TIC I PA' TION, foretaste; expectation. 11. Cow' ED, depressed with fear. 12. PLI AN CY,

readiness to yield. 13. SUP PLE, pliant; bending easily. 14. DEV AS TA'TIONS, desolations; ruins. 15. UN DIS MAY ED, not frightened. 16. MINT, place where money is coined. 17. SU PER SCRIP' TION, that which is written on any thing. 18. DE COY' ED, allured. 19. PAR SI MO NI OUS, stingy; sparing in the use of.

HOW TO MEET ADVERSITY.

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

1. Men become indolent through the reverses of fortune. Surely despondency is a grievous thing, and a heavy load to bear. To see disaster and wreck in

the present, and no light in the future, but only storms, lurid by the contrast of past prosperity, and growing darker as they advance; to wear a constant expectation of woe like a girdle; to see want at the door, imperiously knocking, while there is no strength to repel, or courage to bear, its tyranny,-indeed, this, this is dreadful enough. But there is a thing more dreadful. It is more dreadful if the man is wrecked with his fortune.

2. Can any thing be more poignant in anticipation, than one's own self, unnerved, cowed down, and slackened into utter pliancy, and helplessly drifting and driven down the troubled sea of life? Of all things on earth, next to his God, a broken man should cling to a courageous industry. If it brings nothing back, and saves nothing, it will save him.

3. To be pressed down by adversity, has nothing in it of disgrace; but it is disgraceful to lie down under it, like a supple dog. Indeed, to stand composedly in the storm, amidst its rage and wildest devastations; to let it beat over you, and roar around you, and pass by you, and leave you undismayed,-THIS IS TO BE A MAN. 4. Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon us his image and superscription. In this matter, men may learn of insects. The ant will repair his dwelling as often as the mischievous foot crushes it; the spider will exhaust life itself before he will live without a web; the bee can be decoyed from his labor neither by plenty nor scarcity. If summer be abundant, it toils none the less; if it be parsimonious of flowers, the tiny laborer sweeps a wider circle, and by industry repairs the frugality of the season. Man should be ashamed to be rebuked in vain by the spider, the ant, and the bee.

QUESTIONS.-1. How do men often become indolent? 2. What should a broken man cling to? 3. Is it disgraceful to be in adver sity? 4. What does the author say of adversity in the last paragraph? 5. How do the ant, the spider, and the bee, rebuke indolent men?

Why the falling inflection on life, 2d paragraph? See Note I. p. 27. What kind of emphasis on him, 2d paragraph!

LESSON XC.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. IN FLEX' I BLE, unyielding. 2. CON' STANoy, firmness. 3. Co PI OUS LY, abundantly.. 4. SO LIO I TA' TIONS, earnest requests. 5. PATIENT, a sick person. 6. IN CUR' RED, brought on. 7. DIS PLEAS' URE, anger. 8. MER IT ED, deserved. 9. AD VEN TI' TIOUS, accidental. 10. COM MU NI CATE, to impart; bestow. 11. CON FIRM', to settle; establish. 12. AD U LA' TION, ex cessive praise.

Charles XII., king of Sweden, and one of the ablest of warriors, was born at Stockholm, June 27th, 1682, and, after many brilliant military successes and sad vicissitudes, was struck on the head by a cannon ball, and killed, at Fredericshall, Nov. 30th, 1718.

CHARACTER OF CHARLES THE TWELFTH.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

1. Courage and inflexible constancy formed the basis of this monarch's character. In his tenderest years he gave instances of both. When he was yet scarcely seven years, old, being at dinner with the queen, his mother, intending to give a bit of bread to a great dog he was fond of, this hungry animal snapped greedily at the morsel, and bit his hand in a terrible manner. The wound bled copiously; but our young hero, without offering to cry, or taking the least notice of his misfortune, endeavored to conceal what had happened, lest his dog should be brought into trouble, and wrapped his bloody hand in the napkin.

2. The queen perceiving that he did not eat, asked him the reason. He contented himself with replying, that he thanked her; he was not hungry. They thought he was taken ill, and so repeated their solici tations. But all was in vain, though the poor child was already grown pale with the loss of blood. An officer who attended at table, at last perceived it; for Charles would sooner have died than betrayed his dog, that he knew intended no injury.

3. At another time, when in the small-pox, and his case appeared dangerous, he grew one day very uneasy in his bed, and a gentleman who watched him,

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