And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn The facile gates of Hell too slightly barr'd. Apostrophe and exclamation, as well as the imperative mode, when accompanied by emphasis, incline the voice to the falling inflection. 10. Oh! deep-enchanting prelude to repose, The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our wòes! Yet half I hear the panting spirit sigh, It is a dread and awful thing to die! 5 Mystèrious worlds! untravell'd by the sun, The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb! Chased on his night-steed, by the star of day! 25 When Jordan hush'd his waves, and midnight still 11. Piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer And in his Word sagacious. Such too thine, 12. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then! 5 To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare 15 If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, 20 Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st. Moon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, 25 And ye five other wand'ring Fires, that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. 'Air, and ye 'Elements, the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run 30 Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix, And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, 40 Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise. 14.] Page 60. Emphatic succession of particulars requires the falling slide. Note 3. page 61. should be examined before reading this class of Exercises. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ;--the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one ;--the enemy that sowed them is the dèvil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the àngels. 2. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wìsdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit ;-to another, faith, by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit;-to another, the working of miracles; to another, pròphecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. 3. Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing :---in every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.-Quench not the Spirit :--Despise not prophesyings.-Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 4. As virtue is the most reasonable and genuine source of honour, we generally find in titles, an intimation of some particular merit, that should recommend men to the high stations which they possèss. Holiness is ascribed to the Pope; majesty, to kìngs; serenity, or mildness of temper, to princes; excellence, or perfection, to ambassadors; grace, to archbishops; honour, to pèers; worship, or venerable behaviour, to màgistrates; and reverence, which is of the same import as the fórmer, to the inferior clergy. 5. It pleases me to think that I, who know so small a portion of the works of the Creator, and with slow and painful steps, creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall, ere long, shoot away with the swiftness of imagination; trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations; be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their carèer; be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds; visit the several apartments of creation; know how they are furnished and how inhabited; comprehend the order and measure, the magnitude and distances of those orbs, which, to us, seem disposed without any regular design, and set all in the same circle; observe the dependence of the parts of each system; and (if our minds are big enough) grasp the theory of the several systems upon one another, from whence results the harmony of the universe. 6. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants; to the loìterer, who makes appointments he never keeps to the consùlter, who asks advice he never takes-to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised to the complainer, who whines only to be pìtied -to the projector, whose happiness is only to entertain his friends with expectations, which all but himself know to be vàin-to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of allìances-to the ùsurer, who compares the different fúnds--and to the tálker, who talks only because he loves talking. 7. That a man, to whom he was, in great measure, beholden for his crown, and even for his life; a man to whom, by every honour and favour, he had endeavoured to express his gratitude; whose brother, the earl of Derby, was his own father-in-law; to whom he had even committed the trust of his person, by creating him lord chamberlain; that a man enjoying his full confidence and affèction; not actuated by any motive of discontent |