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LADY T. For my part, I should think you would like tɔ have your wife thought a woman of taste. SIR P. Ay, there again - taste. had no taste when you married me!

Zounds! madam, you

LADY T. That's very true, indeed, Sir Peter; and after having married you I should never pretend to taste again, I allow. But now, Sir Peter, since we have finished our daily jangle, I presume I may go to my engagement at Lady Sneerwell's.

SIR P. Ay, there's another precious circumstance charming set of acquaintance you have made there."

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Example of bitter irony and sarcasm closing with the impassioned kind.

"I speak not to you, Mr. Renwick, of your own outcast condition;—perhaps you delight in the perils of martyrdom: I speak not to those around us, who, in their persons, their substance, and their families, have endured the torture, poverty, and irremediable dishonor. They may be meek and hallowed men, willing to endure; and as for my wife- what was she to you? Ye cannot be greatly disturbed that she is in her grave. No, ye are quiet, calm, prudent persons; it would be a most indiscreet thing of you, you who have suffered no wrongs yourselves, to stir on her account.

"In truth, friends, Mr. Renwick is quite right. This feeling of indignation against our oppressors is a most impru dent thing. If we desire to enjoy our own contempt, to deserve the derision of men, and to merit the abhorrence of Heaven, let us yield ourselves to all that Charles Stuart and his sect require. We can do nothing better, nothing so meritorious, nothing by which we can so reasonably hope for punishment here and condemnation hereafter. But if there is one man at this meeting,-I am speaking not of shapes and forms, but of feelings,—if there is one here that feels as men were wont to feel, he will draw his sword, and say with me, Woe to the house of Stuart! woe to the oppressors!"

'Impressioned' pieces, such as the last of the example above and the following, should have very loud force,' 'very long slides,' 'very abrupt stress.' Time accelerating as the passion cumulates, from moderate' to 'faster,' with very long quantity' on the emphatic words, 'middle and higher pitch' and 'quality' (where the passion is not malignant), only slightly aspirated.'

Impassioned example.

"My castles are my king's alone,

From turret to foundation stone;

The hand of Douglas is his own,

And never shall in friendly grasp
The hand of such as Marmion clasp!'
Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire,
And shook his very frame for ire,

And This to me!' he said;

'An't were not for thy hoary beard,

Such hand as Marmion's had not spared

To cleave the Douglas' head!

And, Douglas, more I tell thee here

E'en in thy pitch of pride,

Here, in thy hold, thy vassals near,
I tell thee, thou'rt defied!

And if thou saidst I am not peer
To any lord in Scotland here,
Lowland or Highland, far or near,
Lord Angus, thou hast lied!'

On the earl's cheek the flush of rage

O'ercame the ashen hue of age;

Fierce he broke forth: 'And dar'st thou, then,

To beard the lion in his den,

The Douglas in his hall?

And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go?

No! by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no!

Up drawbridge, groom! What, warder, ho!
Let the portcullis fall!'"

READING

LESSONS.

PART I.

I.- SELECT SENTENCES FROM THE BIBLE.

1. THE Lord is my shepherd: I shall not want. 2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.

3. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me: Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

5. Thou preparest a table before me in the pres ence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

7. The Lord is merciful and gracious; slow to anger and plenteous1 in mercy.

8. He will not always chide: 2 neither will He keep his anger forever.

9. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.3

10. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.

11. For He knoweth our frame: He remembereth that we are dust.

12. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

13. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

14. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children;

15. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember His commandments to do them.

I PLEN'TE-OUS. Abundant.
CHIDE. Reprove severely.

3 [N-ÏQ'UỊ-TİEŞ. Wicked acts.

4 COM-MAND'MENTS. Commands; precepts or laws.

II.A PARABLE ON BROTHERLY LOVE.

FRANKLIN.

[Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, January 17, 1706, in a house on the site of which now stands the granite block, No. 17 Milk Street. He died April 17, 1790. He was apprenticed to one of his brothers, who was a printer, and worked for many years at this trade. In his interesting autobiography he relates in simple and beautiful language the great pains he took to educate himself. In 1729 he became proprietor and editor of a newspaper in Philadelphia, and in 1732 he began to publish an almanac, purporting to be by Richard Saunders, but commonly called Poor Richard's Almanac. In his newspaper and almanac he sought to convey useful knowledge to his countrymen, especially inculcating the virtues of temperance, industry, and frugality. His simple and graceful style was admirably suited for popular instruction, and he soon began to acquire fame and wealth. Long before the American Revolution he had risen to be one of the most eminent men in the country.

Franklin was equally eminent as a philosopher and a statesman. In philosophy he is immortalized by the important and brilliant discovery of the identity of lightning with the electric fluid. He was a member of the Continental Congress which issued the Declaration of Independence, and one of the committee of five chosen to draft it. In 1776 he was sent as ambassador to the court of France, and he remained in that country till after peace was declared. His high scientific reputation and simple manners made him very popular in Paris, and enabled him to exert an important influence on behalf of his country.

He was remarkable for simplicity of character, strong common sense, and practical philanthropy. The good of mankind was his great aim in life, and he took little interest in subjects which did not promise to yield useful results. He wrote on a variety of questions, and his writings, including his letters, are in a delightful style, instructive from their sound sense, and attractive from their playful humor and warm benevolence of feeling.]

1. IN those days there was no worker of iron in all the land. And the merchants of Midian passed by with their camels, bearing spices, and myrrh, and balm, and wares of iron.

2. And Reuben bought an axe of the Ishmaelite merchants which he prized highly, for there was none in his father's house.

3. And Simeon said unto Reuben, his brother, "Lend me, I pray thee, thine axe." But he refused, and would not.

4. And Levi also said unto him, "My brother, lend me, 1 pray thee, thine axe." And he refused him also.

5. Then came Judah unto Reuben, and entreated1 him, saying, "Lo, thou lovest me, and I have always loved thee; do not refuse me the use of thine axe."

6. But Reuben turned from him, and refused him likewise.

7. Now it came to pass that Reuben hewed timber on the bank of the river, and his axe fell therein, and he could by no means find it.

8. But Simeon, Levi, and Judah had sent a mes senger after the Ishmaelites, with money, and had bought for themselves each an axe.

9. Then came Reuben unto Simeon, and said, “Lo, I have lost mine axe, and my work is unfinished: lend me thine, I pray thee.

10. And Simeon answered him, saying, "Thou wouldst not lend me thine axe; therefore will I not lend thee mine."

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