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RIAL O

eronomy, X

s lonely

ide Jorda

in the lan

es a lon

knows tha

man saw

s of God uptu

the dead

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heard the

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n the nig

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to the g

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r thousan

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of them t

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the wond

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lead his mas

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eat minst

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e emblaz

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r buckle

most gi

r breath

earth's

ith his g

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side for

tate, while

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s bier

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rances

DER AND T

as moving among them. The distant form separated itself from the trees, which partly hid its motions, and advanced towards the knight with a speed which s

me as friend or foe; perhaps, as a vowed champion of the Cross, he might rather have preferred the latter. He disengaged his lance from his saddle, seized it with the right hand, placed it in rest with its

he was enabled to wield the light round buckler of the skin of the rhinoceros, ornamented with silver loops, which he wore on his arm, swinging it as if he meant to oppose its slender circle to the formi

dent that, if the enemy advanced to the actual shock, his own weight, and that of his powerful charger, would give him sufficient advantage, without the additional momentum of rapid motion. Equally sensible and apprehensive of such a probable result, the Saracen cavalier, when he had approached towards the Christian within twice the length of his l

leaped into his seat without touching the stirrup, and regained all the advantage of which the Knight of the Leopard hoped to deprive him. But the latter had in the meanwhile recovered his mace, and the Eastern cavalier, who remembered the strength and dexterity with which his antagonist had aimed it, seemed to keep cautiously out of the reach of that weapon, of which he had so lately felt the force, while he showed his purpose of waging a distant warfare with missile weapons of his own. Planting his long spear in the sand at a distance from the scene of combat, he strung, with great address, a short bow, which he carried at his back, and, putting his horse to the gallop, once more described two or three circles of a wider extent than formerly, in the course of which he discharged six arrows at the Christian with such unerring skill that the goodness of his harness alone saved him from being wounded in as many places. The seventh shaft apparently found a less perfect part

only used for the purpose of communication with the Crusaders; "Wherefor

ouchant Leopard; "but what security dost th

the Emir. "It is thou, brave Nazarene, from whom I should demand

nfidence of the Moslem made h

eapon as he spoke, "I will be true companion to thee, Saracen

s not treachery in my heart towards thee. And now wend we to yonder fountain, for the hour of rest

s assent; and the late foes, without an angry look or gesture o

"The Ta

of mercy is

s the gentle r

beneath: it i

that gives, an

in the mighti

narch better t

ws the force of

te to awe a

t the dread and

above this

èd in the hea

tribute to

er doth then sh

y seasons

kes

AUGUST

isy starring

p abrim with

r-flowers hedged wi

ds the draggle

pods and leave

f earth and

lent speech tha

gentle teache

brief and commo

ty from the ye

hose light no

nt; and my hear

ach plant as som

ther beasts an

them as the wind

hour, and loved

beauty in a

oms the hothous

ture's children

weet obedien

dwellers of the

season's bein

ve but of the

ature's when th

of all the haz

y world all dre

iming click-cla

lls whose mists

e will ever b

ghts and brimming

fred C

AND

o of clergymen. They like pew-rents, and baptismal fees, of course; but yet, if they are brave and well-educated, the pew-rent is not the sole object of their lives, and the baptismal fee is not the sole purpose of the baptism; the clergyman's object is essentially to baptize and preach, not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like fees no doubt,-ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and,-if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them-would rather cure their patient, and lose their fee, than kill him, and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly-trained men; their work is first, their fee second-very important always, but still second. But in every nation, as I said, there are a vast class who are ill-educated, cowardly, and more or less stupid. And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first, and the w

sk

ODDE

the curving

stream in t

outline, cu

in its p

stopped his

s swift it t

glimpse of

his eager,

horses mi

in their p

he tranquil

g monster o

g freshnes

d from his

rs, all soi

gly of mount

joyous mou

delightful

lls!-the plo

perpetua

all day lon

lough with p

e flying tra

fair, ench

y day no pl

frame and du

ills keen to s

and furrows

each the

touched by f

heds its br

page we d

Maule

RST PL

ow from the

April air

he farmer hit

myard unde

cries, "come o

h field's r

or word from

from the

lycatcher-"H

in the

t ephemera,

ould creep

ce where the

liest goss

he damp of the

the winte

high-hole out

ning loud

may be do

h south fie

d side of the

ubs wake a

loughing, come up

or ploughi

coulter and dr

rrows fain

s furtively do

the clan

tumbles, the

g noon's ye

sweet the sm

om its wint

G. D.

CHERY

far spent-let the archers shoot a few round

y. Of the ten shafts which hit the target, two within the inner ring were shot by Hube

hn with a bitter smile, "wilt t

e; on condition that when I have shot two shafts at yonder mark of Hu

not be refused thee. If thou dost beat this braggart, Hu

"but my grandsire drew a good long bow at Hast

ld in his hand his bended bow, with the arrow placed on the string. At length he made a step forward, and raising the bow at the full stretch of his left arm, till the centre or grasping

bert," said his antagonist, bending hi

ow as carelessly in appearance as if he had not even looked at the mark. He was speaking almost at the same instant that the shaft

Hubert, "an thou suffer that runagate knave to

Hubert, "a man can but do his best. Nev

eration!" interrupted John; "shoot, knave, and s

owance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, shot so s

hot, Locksley," said the Pr

aft for him, however

ecaution than before, it lighted right upon tha

sion to plant such a mark as is used in the North Country,

guards attend me," he said, "if you please-I

was to put shame upon his skill. "For my own part," he said, "and in the land where I was bred, men would as soon take for their mark King Arthur's round table, which held sixty knights around it. A child of seven years old," he said, "might hit yonder t

an can cleave that rod, I give him the bucklers-or rather, I yield to the devil that is in his jerkin, and not to any human skill; a man can but do

hou hittest such a mark, I will say thou art the first man ever did so. How

bert says," answered Lock

the event in breathless silence. The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed. A jubilee of acclamations followed; and even Prince John, in admiration of Locksley's skill, lost for an instant his dislike to his person. "These

ur royal brother, King Richard. These twenty nobles I leave to Hubert, who has this day drawn as brave a bow as

unty of the stranger; and Locksley, anxious to escape furth

: "Iv

NOV

leafless fores

driving snow.

darken down. I

arts go by me h

ading stubbles,

sowed softly th

ploughman follo

rrows through th

bald

MN W

the nort

esses of the

Autumn, all a

their g

tains th

eep, the coloure

giant kings, in

the encha

e woods t

re the mingled

company of t

reen fie

s are n

alks; the sweet s

where the painted

he wind

n heaven,

ends that gale

e fair earth hi

test of

the sole

oom where many

when the noon

ys sick w

rough all

rays; the forest

loured foliage

like beams

let, lat

through the shru

e image of its

erings of

umn! wh

s that make th

nd and thy fa

thee wil

re a lot

y coloured sh

ses of the s

and drea

the vain

ad-the tug for w

nd the cares t

e its li

ya

A C

eves if the day be warm, or well covered with a blanket if it is chilly, you sit or lie on this most luxurious of couches, and are propelled at a rapid rate over the smooth surface of a lake or down the swift current of some stream. If you want exercise, you can take a paddle yourself. If you prefer to be inactive, you can lie still and placidly survey the scenery, rising occasionally to have a shot at a wil

ur knee; the half-smoked pipe drops into your lap; your head sinks gently back; and you wander into dreamland, to awake presently and find yourself sweeping rou

faces glow with excitement. Quicker and quicker flows the stream, breaking into little rapids, foaming round rocks, and rising in tumbling waves over the shallows. At a word from the bowman the cre

to pitch headlong into space. Whack! comes a great wave over the bow; crash! comes another over the side. The bowman, his figure stooped, and his knees planted firmly against the sides, stands, with paddle poised in both hands, screaming to the crew to paddle hard; and the crew cheer and shout with excitement in return. You, too, get wild, and feel inclined to yell defiance to the roaring, hissing flood that madly dashes you from side to side. After the first plunge you are in a bewildering whirl of waters. The shore seems to fly past you. Crash! You are ri

en: "The Gr

T BUILDIN

riableness, neither

ies my so

h I perish,

e'er I stra

o, Thou dost

r step wh

slip Thou d

ou

ON

et Afton, among

l sing thee a so

eep by thy mu

et Afton, distur

hose echo resound

ng blackbirds i

ed lapwing, thy

isturb not my

t Afton, thy ne

he courses of cle

wander as no

my Mary's swee

y banks and gre

he woodlands th

ild ev'ning wee

ed birk shades

am, Afton, how l

he cot where m

waters her sn

flow'rets she ste

et Afton, among

eet river, the

eep by thy mu

et Afton, distur

u

IELD'S FIRST

the inn yard. A lady looked out of a bow-window where

tle gentleman fr

a'am,"

ich a waiter came running out of a kitchen on the opposite side of the yard to sho

nd I cast away in the middle of them. I felt it was taking a liberty to sit down, with my cap in my hand, on the corner of the chair nearest th

er that I was afraid I must have given him some offence. But he greatly relieved my mind

ng like dexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while he was standing opposite, staring so hard, and m

t of ale for you. W

it out of a jug into a large tumbler, and held it

. "It seems a goo

ant. He was a twinkling-eyed, pimple-faced man, with his hair standing upright all over his head; and as he

," he said-"a stout gentleman, by the

id, "I don

d-brimmed hat, gray coat, spec

shfully, "I have

, "ordered a glass of this ale-would order it-I told him not-drank it, and f

his melancholy accident, and said I

our people don't like things being ordered and left. It offends 'em. But I'll drink it, if you like. I'm used to

did throw his head back and take it off quick, I had a horrible fear, I confess, of seeing him meet the fate of the lamented

he said, putting a fork i

s," I

were chops. Why, a chop's the very thing to take

isfaction. He afterwards took another chop, and another potato; and after that another chop, and another potato. When he had do

?" he said, ro

dding," I

o it is! What!" looking at it nearer. "You

it is

spoon, "it's my favourite pudding! Ain't that lucky?

s despatch to my despatch, and his appetite to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouthful, and had no chance with him

d paper, to write to Peggoty. He not only brought it immediately, but was good enough to look o

London," which

ooking very low-spirited

I ask

e they broke the boy's ribs-two ribs-a little boy he was

between eig

months old when they broke his first rib; eight years and ei

mfortable coincidence, and inquired how it was done. His answer was not che

de me get up and hesitatingly inquire, in the mingled pride and diffidence of

er," he returned. "Did you eve

remember tha

hat's the way we're taxed in this country. There's nothing e

ht I to-what would it be right to pay the w

nd a lovely sister,"-here the waiter was greatly agitated-"I wouldn't take a farthing. If I had a good place, and was treated well here, I shou

re brutality and hardness of heart, Therefore I gave him one of my three bright shillings, which he receive

bserving that the women-servants who were about the place came out to look and giggle at me as a young phenomenon. My unfortunate friend, the waiter, who had quite recovered his spirits, did not appear to be disturbed by this, but joined in the general admiration without being at all confused. If I had an

"David Co

AREFO

on thee, l

oy, with c

urned-up p

erry whis

ed lip, re

trawberries

unshine on

torn brim's

art I give

ce a bar

art,-the g

s repu

llion-doll

trudging a

more than

ach of ea

unshine,

on thee, b

hood's pai

wakes in la

mocks the do

ever learne

d bee's mo

flower's tim

fowl and

nants of

toise bears

odchuck di

und-mole si

bin feeds

iole's nes

whitest li

freshest b

ound-nut tra

od-grape's c

ck wasp's

his walls

rchitectu

hornet a

wing books

swers all

nd with he

ce with he

parcel of

on the bar

hood's tim

ars in one

hings I he

master,

in flower

irds and

t the squir

nouted mole

te the bla

ver hedge

e brook fo

day and thro

at the ga

me from fa

nd-rimmed p

alnut slop

ending orc

of Hesp

s my hor

ew my ric

orld I sa

complex C

for a ba

tal dainti

wl of milk

on and bow

-stone, gra

like a re

bed, the s

ined, fringe

any a wind-

music ca

ed frogs'

ght the no

ly his la

arch: pom

the bare

then, my l

augh, as b

flinty slop

ared the ne

shall lead

ptisms o

ning from

ool wind ki

n these fee

ison cell

freedom o

t's for wo

ead the mi

n in cease

their tra

forbidd

they si

reacherous

ou couldst

sses, bar

it

T BUILDIN

IN CANADA IN

tle of pioneer life than others, they did not feel, on that account, disposed to treat their neighbours as their inferiors. Neighbours, they well knew, were too few and too desirable to be coldly and haughtily treated. Had not all the members of each comm

of their own labour. The sources of amusement were limited. The day of the harmonium or piano had not come. Music, except in its simplest vocal

soon as the gray light of dawn appeared, men and boys were off to the barns, not merely to feed the cattle but to engage in the needful and tedious labour of threshing by hand

g the fire in the morning. This precaution was rarely unsuccessful; but sometimes a member of the family had to set out for a supply of fire from a neighbour's, in order that breakfast might be prepared. I remember well having to crawl out of my warm nest and run

a preservative but also lent a special flavour to the meat. Then ploughing, fencing, sowing, and planting followed in quick succession. No hands could be spared. The children must drive the cows to and from pasture. They must also take a hand at churning. It was a weary task, I well remember, to stand, perhaps for an hour, and drive the dasher up and down th

s were commonly employed. Compared with our modern ploughs, they were clumsy things, but a vast improvement on the ear

rded by hand; the remainder was sent to the mills to be turned into rolls. Then, day after day, for weeks, the noise of the spinning-wheel was heard, accompanied by the steady beat of the girls' feet, as they walked forward and backward drawing out and t

des milking, there was the making both of butter and cheese. There was no nurse to take care of the children, no cook to prepare the dinner. To be sure, in households when the work was beyond the powers of the family, the daughter of some neighbour might come as a helper. Though hired, she

e a rolling-pin more satisfactorily than a sketch-book. At a pinch, they could even use a rake or fork to good purpose in field or barn. Their f

teps of their fathers. Neither sex felt that life was cramped or burdensome on that account. They were content to live as their parents had done. And though we can see that, as compared with late

untry Life in Canad

apt

st grieves most

a

E

hat reel to s

ns by me wh

p hill it s

d melt int

lf-way, o

summit, s

rt, movi

y clacki

t's side t

ng slowly

n in the w

st puffing

on the he

o sky on e

thing that s

he heat-

in the fie

grass and h

marguerite

uttercups

ok yonder

e spider or

ugs draw cl

gloom of

r elm-tree s

s in the bu

ch with her

for the he

ere on the

ale depths

thrush sli

revolvi

als of dr

from the dro

ppers spin

innumera

eyes somet

sky-line bli

r off are bl

are drench

me not th

sharp or a

ped shadow

est, and dr

think some b

me wanderin

l furnace

s grow kee

bald

TWO

n, and receiv

of thy life

thee in the

ee in paths o

thy steps shall n

nnest, thou sh

hold of in

er no

p h

e is t

to the Path

in the way

id

not b

fro

pass

t, except they ha

aken away, unless th

the bread o

the wine o

e Righteous is as

e and more unto

he wicked is

ot at what

erbs

DO DEL

oned by King Alfonso, at last took up arms. The war proved so destructive that the people demanded of the King, Saldana's liberty. Alfonso offered Bernardo p

owed his cres

s heart

haughty kin

prisone

e here my fo

y capti

faith, my lieg

father'

even now th

ed man t

d horse, and

m on hi

rose that l

on his

if with lanc

's foam

ar, as on they

glitter

midst them s

r in th

ernardo, hast

truth,

om thy faithf

so long

flashed, hi

heek's blood

at gray-haire

here, dismo

o earth he ben

he

e in its touc

spirit

s cold-a fro

rom his l

to the face a

f the

d o'er the n

fixed a

t his father'

as no

round he spra

uld paint

heir very hea

ror and

ave chained

ny form

was stricken

his lip t

length he mur

e childh

grief till t

s of war

n all his gl

his youn

falchion fr

he dust

ng with his

darkly mou

ere is no mo

the sword

alse, my hop

oh! the

the loveline

from

stand where

beside

at there o

ain's free

ave known my s

fields w

perished in

hou hads

g from the gr

the mona

le and wilder

urtier

erce, o'ermas

ing war-

set them fac

fore th

forth upon t

s hand

gaze thou on

me what

the glance,

answer, wher

st clear thy

hrough this

glassy eyes

ep down t

e lips a bless

s not m

him for whom

blood wa

ot-and a kin

ns on t

he steed; h

n the si

ng, deep, trou

om that s

rushed, his af

tial s

d the spears

lls of

cia

own self

ollow, as the

t then be fal

kes

' BAR

r business," says the vicar, "received a

and buy us a horse that would carry single or double upon an occasion, and make a pretty appearance at church or upon a visit. This at first I opp

f going myself; but my wife persuaded me that I had got a col

o very good advantage; you know all our great bargains are of his purchasing. He

s commission; and the next morning I perceived his sisters mighty busy in fitting out Mo

a coat made of that cloth they call thunder and lightning, which, though grown too short, was much too good to be thrown away. His waistcoat was of gosling green, and his si

to wonder what could keep

s hen of a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell you a good story about that, that w

d sweating under the deal box, which he had

well, my boy, what have yo

ied Moses, with a sly look, and

wife, "that we know, b

ses, "for three pounds, fiv

ch them off. Between ourselves, three pounds, five shillings,

in a bargain, and here it is," pulling out a bundle from his breast: "here

int voice. "And you have parted with the colt and brough

ason? I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bou

. "I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money

selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence,

fe, "not silver, th

o more silver tha

f green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases! A murrain take such trump

"you are wrong; he should n

, "to bring me such stuff; if I had t

though they be copper, we will keep them by us, as c

ng his figure, had marked him for an easy prey. I therefore asked the circumstances of his deception. He sold the horse, it see

ose of them for a third of the value. The first gentleman, who pretended to be my friend, whispered me to buy them, and cautioned me not to let so good an

The Vicar of

MA

deepen the wo

ly sway t

cately the w

s rehearse n

high till they

the yellow bi

love all the

le of sunn

ing of the haw

leaved linde

may be for th

te, strange

glows with the

e the spring

of flame from

e of Winte

shade there

ummer cano

ay, as benea

ory backwa

lane I may w

r a fresh,

stood just cle

o be near

G. D.

EENWOO

e greenw

s to lie

e his m

sweet bir

come hither

shall

e

r and rou

h ambit

to live

the food

d with wha

come hither

shall

e

r and rou

kes

it beyond your most sanguine dreams, and the waste of it will make you dwind

dst

SUP

ike ice itself, and so clear that hundreds of feet below the surface the rocks stand out as distinctly as though seen through plate-glass. Follow in fancy the outpourings of this wonderful basin; seek its future course in Huron, Erie, and Ontario-in that wild leap from the rocky ledge which makes Niagara famous through the world. Seek it farther still-in the quiet loveliness of the Thousand Isles, in the whirl and sweep of the Cedar Rapids, in

m-ships cover the broad bosom of its lakes and estuaries; but they change not the beauty of the water, no more than the fleets of the world mark the waves of the ocean. Any person looking at a map of the region bounding the great lakes of North America will be struck by the absence of rivers flowing into Lakes Superior, Michigan, or Huron, from the south-in fact, the drainage of the States bordering these lakes on

tler: "The Gre

D RIVE

eaks the uniform level. Standing upon the ground, the eye ranges over many miles of grass; standing on a wagon, one doubles the area of vision; and to look over the plains from an elevation of twelve feet above the earth, is to survey at a glance a space so vast that distance alone seems to bound its limits. The effect of sunset over these oceans of verdure is very beautiful. A thousand hues spread themselves upon the grassy plains, a thousand tints of gold are cast along the heavens, and the two oceans of the sky

tler: "The Gre

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but

sk

NNAME

mong the th

o man e

nature's

lences

ins tower ab

hes fring

ts breast

on breez

that inter

in Spring

hen Autumn d

s lie down

sunset cro

of agele

have thunder

have set th

of the w

it night

shadow, mo

repass

he gray of

t the lak

ts of a clo

the moun

shore a

a speck

d in the de

the fish-

cloud-capt

the silen

n whispers d

ian mount

led brush an

g whence

n silence,

withou

G.

ain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delig

sk

NORMAN

violence and suspicion. Beauty gave way to the needs of safety. Girdled with a green and slimy ditch, round the inner side

of the rounded arch, but little of his work was yet done; for the keep lifted its huge angular block of masonry within the inner bailey or courtyard, and from the narrow ch

castle architecture. Thus a baron in his keep could defy, and often did defy, the king upon his throne. Under his roof, eating daily at his board, lived a throng of armed retainers; and around his castle l

e English lord, he still lay only upon straw. Chimneys tunnelled the thick walls, and the cupboards glittered with glass and silver. Horn lanterns and the old spiked candle-sticks lit up his evening hours, when the chess-board arrayed its clumsy men, carved out of walrus-tusk, then commonly calle

noise of football, wrestling, boxing, leaping, and the fierce joys of the bull-bait. But out of doors, when no fig

ediately before going to bed. Goose and garlic formed a favourite dish. Their cookery was more elaborate, and, in comparison, more delicate,

in field or stall bore English names-ox, sheep, calf, pig, deer; while their flesh, promoted to Norman dishes, rejoiced in names of French origin-beef, mutton, veal, pork, venison. Round c

a crowd of beggars or gluttons, who grew so insolent in the days of Rufus, that ushers, armed with rods, were posted

he bailey of an afternoon, displayed the acquirements of his trained monkey or bear. The fool, too, clad in coloured patchwork, cracked

ravellers; their tenants were better off and better treated than the tenants of the nobles; the monks could store grain, grow apples, and cultivate their flower-beds with li

sh church where all the young committed to his care might be instructed. The youth of the middle classes, destined for the cloister or the merchant's stall, chiefly thronged these schools. The aristocracy cared little fo

llier, (

self-control, These three alon

nn

NERS OF

ners of

d our nat

s braved, a t

le and t

us standard

h anoth

through

stormy win

ttle rages l

tormy win

ts of you

rt from e

it was their

n was th

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th to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look ri

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gh purpose is adopted on just principles, and is never abandoned while heaven or earth affords means of accomplishing it. He

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entitled, "The Visions of Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have

s, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I

lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly a

that the musician had before made himself visible. When he had raised my thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his con

eet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and app

h it.' 'The valley that thou seest,' said he, 'is the Vale of Misery, and the Tide of Water that thou seest is part of the great Tide of Eternity,' 'What is the reason,' said I, 'that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at on

n Life; consider it attentively.' Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about

more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and, upon further examination, perceived that the

eople no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner toward

t continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell thr

s which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly

d fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced b

and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to li

n looking up, 'What mean,' said I, 'those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feather

made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mor

re,' said he, 'on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thin

ed part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the farther end and spreading

th fruits and flowers and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among

eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the Genius told me there was no passag

extend itself. These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them: every island is a par

said: 'Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those d

turned again to the Vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the

he Spectato

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and traitors; they followed the recognition of Independence by England with an order exiling such adherents from their territories. But while this policy depleted the United State

s; of venomous reptiles and beasts of prey; of numerous and fierce Indian tribes; of i

. The British Commander of New York, having found out that Upper Canada was capable of supporting a n

wick, and up the St. Lawrence to Sorel, where they arrived in October, 1783. Here they wintered, having built themselves huts, or shanties,

er Canada, as far as Plattsburg, and then northward to Cornwall and up

ake Ontario. Flat-bottomed boats, specially built or purchased for the purpose by the Loyalists, were used in this journey.

rs went westward along the south shore of the lake to Niagara and Queenston. Some conveyed their boats over the portage of ten or twelve mil

covered the earth, and where the only path was the river or the lake. The parents and family of the writer of this history were from the middle of May to the middle of July

ce of the Pilgrim Fathers to their principles was quite equalled by the stern adherence of the Loyalists to their principles; but the privations and hardships experienced by many of the L

emembrance of which its inhabitants may well

oyalists of America and

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and fifty miles long-wider at the east where the south side is known as Ungava Bay, contracting at the west, to the Upper Narrows. The south side of the strait is Labrador; the north, Baffin's Land. Both sides are lofty, rocky, cavernous shores lashed by a tide that rises in places as high as thirty-five feet and runs in calm weather ten miles a

re, the iron walls suddenly break to secluded silent valleys, moss-padded, snow-edged, lonely as the day Earth first saw light. Down these valleys pour the clear streams of the eternal snows, burnished as silver against the green, setting the silence echoing with the tinkle of cataracts over some rock wall, or f

ome of these bog-covered valleys like sea-birds; but it is only when the Eskimos happen to be hunting here, or the sh

but for the great bulging black eye, bounds over the boulders. Snow buntings, whistling swans, snow geese, ducks in myriads-flacke

then it is that the straits roll and pitch and funnel their waters into black troughs where the ships go down. "Undertow," the old Hudson's Bay captains called the suck of the tide against the ice wall; and that black hole, where the lumpy billows seemed to part like a passage between wall of ice and wall of water, was what the mariners feared. The other great danger was just a plain cr

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first race; Hardy, a friend of Tom's and one of the best oarsmen in the college-also Jack, the college dog. Though there are several crews in the race the rea

tream; and the crowds of men on the bank began to be agitated, as it were, by the shadow of the coming excitement. The St

ush her off

ller, who was sitting, watch in hand, in the

med to pass from him into the crew. Tom felt calmer and stronger, as he met his eye. "Now mind, boys, don't q

th, and then handed it to Blake, who followed his example, and passed it on. E

f, and get her h

ce. The crew poised their oars, Number Two pushing out her head, and the cap

and. Yes, you'll do," he went on, as Hardy stepped down the bank and took hold of the rope; "let me have it foot by fo

tled to her place. But now the wind rose aga

keep her a little further out or our o

ack her, one stroke all. Bac

cularly as there are in her two men who have never rowed a race before

ens in Miller's left hand, and the stroke, unshi

ay so if you were in the boat, with your heart in your mouth and trembling all over like a man with th

n looked grim but said nothing; it was too late now for him to be unshi

oat-hook against the gunwale, at the full stretch of his arm, and so, by main force, kept the stern out. There was just roo

t, is equal to the occasion. He holds his watch in his right hand with the tiller ro

, as it were, for the last six minutes, is loose, and breaks away with a bound and a dash which he who has felt it will remember for his life, but the like of which, will he ev

y edge of, often in, the water; some slightly in advance, as if they could help to drag their boat forward; some behind, where they can see the pu

Five!" "You're gaining every stroke!"

boats, jostling one another, stumb

he glorious, maddening hurly-burly exten

, or smelt it before. Though his eye never wandered from the back of Diogenes, he seemed to see all things at once. The boat behind, which seemed to be gaining;-it was all he could do to prevent himself from quickening on the stroke as he fancied that;-the eager face of Miller, with his compressed lips, and eyes fixed so earnestly ahead that Tom could almost feel the glance passing over his right shoulder; the flying banks and the shouting crowd; see them with his bodily eyes he could not, but he knew, nevertheless, that Grey had been upset and nearly rolled down the bank into the water in the first hundred yards, that Jack was bounding and scrambling and barking

The St. Ambrose boat is well away from the boat behind, there is a great gap between the accompanying crowds; and now, as they near the Gut, she hangs for a mome

same moment; for, all at once, the strain seems taken off their arms again; there is no more drag; she springs

erks of the St. Ambrose rudder will you see, watch as you will from the bank; the boat never hangs through fault of his, but easily and gracefully rounds every point. "You're gaining! you're gaining!" he now and then mutters to the captain, who responds with a wink, keeping his breath for other matters. Isn't he grand, the captain, as he

nother moment both boats are in the Gut, and a perfect storm of shouts reaches them from the crowd, as it rushes madly off to the left to the footbridge, amidst which "Oh, well steered, well steered, St. Ambrose!" is the prevailing cry. Then Miller, motionless as a statue till now, lifts his right hand and whirls the tassel round his head. "Give it her now, boys; six strokes and we're into them." Old Jer

ng to." It is the coxswain o

erly unable to contain his joy, and yet unwilling to exhibit it before the eyes o

Cast her off, quick. Come, look alive! Push acr

stroke, as the St. Ambrose boat shoots past

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fascination in its expressionless strength. Over the black water, under the lowering sky, or through the bright still moonlight, the same unfeeling tone fills the ear of night. And sometimes, when the lingering moon sheds a broad trail of light along the still waters of the lake, the graceful swimmer will glide across and disappear in the darkness, breaking the bright reflection into a multitude of chasing, quivering, trailing threads of silver. Throughout the day, where the cedars come down to meet their shadows in the dark

tractive expanse in the cedar-girt lake. For the water is the loon's natural element. There is an amusing deliberateness in his graceful, silent dive. He does not make the hurried dip of his smaller cousin, the grebe, but more calmly curves both neck

under the shadowy cedars toward the open water. A field-glass shows it to be the mother loon and her two offspring, the three huddled so closely together that they are almost indistinguishable. The mother is unceasing in her care and attention. She strokes the backs of the young birds with her bill, playing and fussing around and close to them, as if they could not exis

The trio moves at a snail's pace compared with her ordinary speed, but the young ones show no inclination to dive out of harm's way. Their clinging, crowding tendency serves but to incommode and obstruct her. And where is the male protector? Alas for the romance of chivalry! When the boat comes near, he deliberately dives, and, after the usual protracted wait, reappears in another part of the lake, away from the

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EAT NO

xity of purpose, they gather up many a wandering rill and start eastward upon a long journey. At length the many detached streams resolve themselves into two great water systems. Through hundreds of miles these two rivers pursue their parallel courses, now approaching, now opening out from each other. Suddenly the southern river bends towards the north, and, at a point some six hundred miles from the mountains, pours its volume of water into the northern channel. Then the united river rolls, in vast, majestic curves, steadily towards the north-east, turns once more towards the south, opens out into a great reed-covered marsh, sweeps on into a large cedar-lined lake, and finally, rolling over a rocky ledge, casts its waters into the northern end of the great Lake W

e centre of the continent; for an ocean there is-an ocean through which men seek the treasures of Cathay even in our own times. But the ocean is one of grass, and the shores are the crests of mountain ranges and the dark pine forests of sub-Arctic regions. The great ocean itself does not present such infinite variety as does this prairie-ocean of which we speak:-in winter, a dazzling surface of purest snow; in early summer, a vast expanse of grass and pale pink roses; in autumn, too often a wild sea of raging fire! No ocean of water in the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie: one feels the stillness, and hears the silence: the wail of the prowling wolf makes the voice of solitude audible; th

d through the darkness; ice had settled upon the quiet pools and was settling upon the quick-running streams; the horizon glowed at night with

tler: "The Gre

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YAGE OF SINB

, and there, that I might not be obliged to depend upon a captain, but have a ship at my own command, I remained till one was built on purpose at my own charge. When the

we found an egg of a roc, equal in size to that I saw on a former voyage, fifty paces round, and shining as a great whi

hets, and having made a hole in it, pulled out the young roc piecemeal and roasted it. I

at belonged to the young one, and pressed us to re-embark with all speed, to prevent the misfortune which he saw would otherwise befall us. We hastened on board and set sail with all possible expedition. In the meantime, the two rocs approached with a frigh

the water so that we could almost see the bottom. The other roc, to our misfortune, threw his massy burden so exactly into the middle of the ship as to split it into a thousand pieces. The mariners and passengers were all crushed to death, or sunk. I myself was of the number of the latter, but, as I

cious garden. I found trees everywhere, some of them bearing green, and others ripe fruits; and there were streams of fresh, pure wat

took him to be one who had been shipwrecked like myself. I went towards him and saluted him, but he only slightly bowed his head. I asked him why he sat

t get off with ease; but instead of doing so (which I laugh at every time I think of it), the old man who appeared to me quite decrepit, threw his legs nimbly about m

my will. Having arisen, he made me carry him under the trees, and forced me now and then to stop, to gather and eat fruit such as we found. He never left me all day, and when I lay down to rest at night, he laid himself down with me, holding alwa

, which abounded in the island. Having filled the calabash, I put it by in a convenient place; and going thither again some days after, I tasted it and found

e liquor pleasing his palate, he drank it all off. There being a considerable quantity of it, and the fumes getting into his head, he began to sing and dance upon my shoulders, and to loose

re surprised to see me, but more so at the particulars of my adventures. "You fell," said they, "into the hands of the old man of the sea, and are the first who ever escaped strangling

me with great kindness when they told him what had befallen me. He put out again to sea, and after som

gave me a large bag, and having recommended me to some people of the town, who used to gather cocoa-nuts, desired them to take me with them. "Go," said he, "follow them, a

to the branches that bore the fruit. When we entered the forest, we saw a great number of apes of several si

es, as sufficiently testified their anger and resentment. We gathered up the cocoa-nuts, and from time to time threw stones to provoke the apes; so that by this stratage

oes, and went with other merchants a-pearl-fishing. I hired divers, who brought me up some that were very large and pure. I embarked in a vessel that happily arrived at Bussorah; from thence I returned to Bagdat, where I

Nights Ente

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fair or g

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dawn on the

home, in his

song, but it

bring home the

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m thee; the vile

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o his gods, w

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thans, whose

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nd some other tribes, with the avowed object of expelling the British from the lake regions of the country. With the craftiness peculiar to

nized at each post, and the officers of the garr

he game of Lacrosse on the common, sought an audience of the governor of the fort. He

he glanced his eye along the semi-circle of Indians. "How is this? Is his voice still s

peak," replied the Indian. "The Ottawa chief is very sorry; f

on one another, passed anxiously away; and then nearer to the gate, apparently on the very drawbridge itself, was pealed forth the wild and deafening yell of a legion of fiendish voices. At that sound, the Ottawa and the other chiefs sprang to their feet, and their own fierce cry responded to that yet vibrating on the ears of all. Already were their gleaming tomahawks bra

hat ran along the front of the building whence he had issued. The surprise of the Indians on reaching this point was now too powerful to be dissembled; and incapable either of advancing or receding, they remained gazing on the scene before them with an air of mingled stupefaction, rage, and alarm. Scarcely ten minutes had elapsed since they had proudly strode through the naked area of the fort, and yet even in that short space of time its appearance had been entirely changed. Not a part was there now of the surrounding buildings that was not replete with human life and hostile preparation. Through every window of the officers' low rooms was to be seen the dark and frowning muzzle of a field-piece bearing upon the gateway, and behind these were artillerymen holding their lighted matches, supported again by files of bayonets that glittered in their rear. In th

e glances around, yet paralyzed in their movements by the unlooked-for display of resisting force, threatening instant annihilation to those who should attempt either to advance or recede. Never, perhaps, were astonishment and disappointment more forcibly depicted on the human countenance, than they were now ex

rolling of their dark eyes, as they keenly measured the insurmountable barriers that were opposed to their progress, they might almost have been taken for a wild group of statuary. Conspicuous at the head of these was he who wore the blanket; a tall warrior on whom rested the startled eye of every officer and soldie

on of their line, bringing the ball nearer to the fort. In their eagerness to effect this object, they had overlooked the gradual secession of the unarmed troops, spectators of their sport from the ramparts, until scarcely more than twenty stragglers were left. As they neared the gate, the squaws broke up their several groups, and, forming a line on either hand of the road leading to the drawbridge, appeared to separate solely with a view not to impede the players. For an instant a dense group collected around the ball, which had been drawn to within a hundred yards of the gate,

reached the opposite extremity of those lines, when the women suddenly threw back their blankets, and disclosed each a short gun and tomahawk. To throw away their hurdles and seize upon these, was the work of an instant. Already, in imagination, was the fort their own; and, such, was the pecul

g the interior, they found the garrison prepar

Rich

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ABETHAN

markable as could have been found anywhere in England. Humfrey and Adrian Gilbert, with their half-brother, Walter Raleigh, here, when little boys, played at sailors in the reaches of Long Stream, in the summer evenings doubtless rowing down with the tide to the port, and wondering at the quaint figure-heads and carved prows of the ships which thronged it; or climbing on board, and listening, with hearts beating, to the mariners' tales of the new earth beyond the sunset. And here in later life, matured men,

remains to commemorate his discoveries. Brave as he was, he is distinguished by a peculiar and exquisite sweetness of nature, which, from many little facts of his life, seems to have affected every one with whom he came in contact in a remarkable degree. We find men, for the love of Master Davis, leaving their firesides to sail with him, without other hope or motion; we find silver b

ell in with a barrier of ice, which he coasted for thirteen days without finding an opening. The very sight of an

y entreated me to regard the safety of mine own life, as well as the preservation of theirs; and that I

esty to move my heart to prosecute that which I hope shall be

cebergs, when the long days and twilight nights alone saved him from being destroyed, and, coasting back along the American shore, he discovered Hudson Strait, supposed then to be the long desired entrance into the Pacific. This exploit drew the attention of Walsingham, and by him Davis was presented to Burleigh, "who was also pleased to show him great encouragement." If either these statesmen or Elizabeth had been twenty years younger, his name would have filled a larger space in history than

, drifting at sea, without provisions, in a leaky junk. He supposed them to be pirates, but he did not choose to leave

utiful is the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich, glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with her blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful. It is beautiful, but not the most beautiful. There is another life, hard, rough, and thorny, trodden with bleeding feet and aching brow; the life of which the cross is the symbol; a battle which no peace follows, this side the grave; which the grave gapes to finish, before the victory is won; and-strange

Studies on Gr

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. Many of them lie in the west,

against the horizon. But my finest castles are in Spain. It is a country famously romantic, and m

h with travellers to that country; although, I must allow, without de

s of real estate in Spain than in any other region he

he proprietors have ever been to Spain to take possession and report to the rest of us the state o

nous, golden atmosphere, a little hazy and dreamy, perhaps, like the

alleys and soft landscapes that I have no

emed to know the way. It occurred to me that Bourne, the millionaire, must have ascertained the safes

nded by files of papers and patterns, specimens, boxes,

p hastily, and wished me good-morning, whic

e asked blandly, but

ments, without speaking and without seeming to see me. His brow gradually smoothed, and his eyes a

at length, musingly, shaking hi

much impracticable property elsewher

er, Mr. Bourne? for, of course, a man who drives such an immense trade

all my life to discover it; but none of my ships have eve

vory, pearls, and precious stones from every part of the earth; but

nters, and invalids, in all sorts of ships, to all sorts of places, but none of the

n?" hastily demanded a man whom, as he entered, I recog

sent, and the br

chant, as the broker went out

roubled you, Mr. Bour

I should have sailed years and years ago. People sail for the Northwest Passage, which is nothing when yo

les in Spain. I have so much property there

ke precious stones, in the vaults; and I know that I shall find every

am not conscious that

perhaps, or a "Canterbury Tale," I have seemed to see clearly before me the broad highway to my castles in Sp

am Curtis: "

apt

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ty-one. His kinsman, John Hawkins, was fitting out his third expedition to the Spanish Main, and young Drake, with a party of his Kentish friends, went to Plymouth and joined him. In 1572 "he made himself whole with the Spaniards" by s

slightly concealed by the moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible, and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose, dark, seaman's shirt, belted at the waist. About his neck is a plaited cord with a ring attached to it, in which, a

ss of our modern Channel schooners, two barques of fifty and thirty tons each, a second ship as it was called, the Elizabeth, of eighty tons, not larger than a common revenue cutter, and a pinnace, hardly more than a boat, intended to be burnt if it could not bear the seas. These vessels, with a hundred and

Antarctic pole. A single narrow channel was the only access to the Pacific then believed to exist. There were no charts, no records of past experiences. It was known that Magellan had gone through, but that was all. It

toil and anxiety, they had accomplished the passage and found themselves in the open Pacific. But they found also that it was no peaceful ocean into which they had entered, but the stormiest they had ever encountered. Their vessels were now reduced to three; the pinnace had been left behind at Port St. Julian, and there remained only the Pelican, the Elizabeth, and the thirty-ton cutter. Instantly that they emerged out of the Strait, they were caught in a gale which swept them six hundred miles to the south-west. For six weeks they were battered to and fro, in bitter cold and winds which seemed as if they blew in these latitudes for ever. T

t he was in search of. He sailed in, and the Spanish seamen, who had never yet seen a stranger in those waters, ran up their flags, beat their drums, and prepared a banquet for their supposed countrymen. The Pelican shot up alongside. The English sailors leaped on board, and one "Thomas Moore," a lad from Plymouth, began the play with knocking down the first man that he met, saluting him in Spanish as he fell, and crying out "Down, dog."

port without arms, without crews, and with their sails on shore. In all of these they discovered but a few chests of reals and some bales of silk and linen. A thirteenth, called by the seamen the Cacafuego, but christened in her baptism "Our Lady

h every stitch of her canvas spread. A gold chain was promised to the first man who caught sight of the Cacafuego. A sail was seen the second day of the chase: it was

was recognized by the peculiarities in her sails, of which they had received exact information at Lima. There lay the Cacafuego; if they could take her their work would be done, and they might go home in triumph. She was s

fuego, hailed to her to run into the wind. The Spanish commander, not understanding the meaning of such an order, paid no attention to it. The next moment the corsair opened her ports, fired a broadside, and brought his main-mast about his ears. His decks were cleared by a shower of arrows, with one of which he was himself wounded. In a few minutes more he was a prisoner, and his ship and all that it contained was in the hands of the English. The wreck was cut away, the ship cleared, and her head turned to the sea;

entrance. He went on therefore at his leisure towards the coast of Mexico, intending to follow the shore till he found it. Another ship coming from China crossed him on his way lo

of his finery, and then, says one of the party: "Our general, thinking himself both in respect of his private injuries received from the Spaniards, as also their contempt and indignities offe

and the sea-worms bored holes into the planking. Twenty thousand miles of unknown water lay between Drake and Plymouth Sound, and he was not a man to run idle risks. Running on till he had left the furthe

rew having been long in the tropics suffered from the change. Not caring to run risks in exploring with so precious a cargo, and finding by observation that the passage, if it existed, must be of enormous length, Drake resolved to go no further, and expecting, as proved to be the case, that the Spaniards would be on

e Malacca Straits formed the only route marked in the Portuguese chart, and between Drake and his apparent passage lay the Java Sea and the channel between Borneo and Sumatra. But it was not impossible that there might be some other opening, and the Pelican crawled in search of it along the Java coast. Here, if nowhere else, her small size and manageableness were in her favour. In spite of all the care that was taken, she was almost lost. One evening as the black tropical night was closing, a grating sound was heard under her keel: another moment she was hard

of Good Hope, and touching for water at Sierra Leone, she sailed in triumph into Plymouth

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rs in some

Arabia

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farthest

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plaintive

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ving and studying any natural occurrence alone, but takes pleasure in connecting every natural fact with what has gone before it, and with what is to come after it. Thus,

s these tributaries are passed. It shrinks first to a brook, then to a stream; this again divides itself into a number of smaller streamlets, ending in mere threads of water. These constitute the source of the river, and are u

would find the streams feeble, sometimes indeed quite dried up. In wet weather you would see them foaming torrents. In general these streams lose themselves as little threads of water upon the hillsides; but sometimes you may trace a river

scover at once a likeness between them and the condensed steam of a locomotive. At every puff of the engine, a cloud is projected into the air. Watch the cloud sharply: you notice that it first forms at a little distance from the top of the funnel. Give close attention, and yo

red as great as that within the boiler. When the vapour mingles with the cold air above the hot funnel, it ceases to be vapour. Every bit of steam shrinks, when chilled, t

ntinue your observations, you will not fail to notice that the speed of its disappearance depends upon the character of the day. In humid weather the cl

quantity is far greater than the air is able to maintain in an invisible state. But, as the cloud mixes gradually with a larger mass of air, it

the locomotive. To produce the cloud, in the case of the locomotive and the kettle, heat is necessary. By heating the water we first convert it into steam, a

mingles with the air in contact with the earth. The vapour-charged air, being heated by the warm earth, expands, becomes lighter, and rises. It expands also, as it rises, because the pressure of the air above it becomes less and less with the height it attains. But an expanding body always becomes colder as the result of its expansion. Thus the vapour-laden air is c

hould this chilling process continue in either case until the water-drops become heavier than the surrounding air, they would fall to

it is tilted and flows up its side. The air expands as it rises, the vapour is chilled and becomes visible in

he sun; for it is the sun that produces aqueous vapour, from which, as we have seen, clouds ar

m which the river rushes, and which you might be disposed to regard as the source of the Rhone. But go to the head of the lake, and you find that the Rhone there enters it; that the lake is, in fact, an expansion of the river. Follow this upwards; you find it joined by smaller rivers from th

ts the snow from the lower hills, but the higher parts remain covered, for the heat cannot melt all the snow which falls there in a year. When a considerable depth of snow has accumulated, the pressure upon the lower layers squeezes them into a firm mass, and after a time the snow begins to slide down

no clouds, without clouds no snow, and without snow no glaciers. Curious then as th

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vulgar, crafty despot, is head of Dotheboys Hall. Nicholas is an usher or undermaster in the school

p, so he can't be there; and he's not down-stairs anywhere, for the gi

he?" inqui

ueers, angrily. "He ha

wn in his whole life, that

nd he didn't take anything to eat with

a!" laughe

must beg his way, and he could do t

claimed Squeers,

e. "Now, if you take the chaise and go one road, and I borrow Swallow's chaise and go the other, what

orth in the pony-chaise, intent upon discovery and vengeance. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Squeers, arrayed in the white topcoat and tied up in various shawls and handkerchiefs, issued forth in another chaise in another direction, taking with her a

protracted wanderings of so poor and helpless a creature, alone and unfriended, through a country of which he was wholly ignorant. There was little, perhaps, to choose between this fate and a return to the tender mercies of the Yorkshire school: but the unhappy being had establish

on the old principle, not a few times during the journey. "I'll have consolation for this o

onsole you, sir," said Nich

rs, in a threatening m

" rejoined

home with a hack cob, that'll cost fifteen shillings besides oth

his shoulders an

fty manner changed to open bullying. "None of your whining vapourings here, Mr

t could come to little but a noisy brawl, he contented himself with darting a contemptuous look at the tyrant and walked, as majestically as he could, upst

somebody, which was in itself a sufficient sign that something extraordinary had happened. Nicholas hardly dared to look out of the window; but he did so, and the very first object that met his eyes was the w

literally feasted his eyes in silence upo

s assistance. "We tied his legs under the apron and made 'em

ead than alive, was brought into the house and securely locked up in a cellar, until such time as

n, however, until afternoon; when Squeers, having refreshed himself with his dinner and further strengthened himself by an extra libation or so, made his appearance (accompanied by his amiab

" asked Squeers, in

Squeers glared along the lines to assure himself; and eve

s favourite blow to the desk and regarding with gloomy sa

to your d

in reply. Squeers, casting a triumphant glance at his assistant and a look of most comprehensive despotism on the boys, left the room, and shortly afterward returned,

r of compassion and remonstrance. It had some effect even there; for the lookers-on moved uneasily in thei

on the luckless Smike, as he inquired, according to custom

?" said Squeers, wi

instant on Nicholas, as if he had expected him t

s again, giving his right arm two or three

ay, Mrs. Squeers, my dear; I

, sir!" c

s. "Yes, I'll flog you within an inc

hed Mrs. Squeers,

ike, faintly; and casting ano

Squeers. "Oh! it wasn't your fa

," exclaimed Mrs. Squeers, taking Smike's head under her arm and a

" replied Squeers. "We

ate cut had fallen on his body-he was wincing from the lash and uttering a scream of pain-it was raised again, and a

asked Squeers, tur

stepping forward. "T

cried Squeers, a

undered

ueers released his hold of Smike, and, falling back a pace,

icholas, nothing daunted; "s

s starting out of his head; but astonishment ha

urned no answer to the letter in which I begged forgiveness for him and offered to be responsible that he wou

ers, almost beside himself with r

d by and see it done. My blood is up, and I have the strength of ten such men as

ed Squeers, brand

n is aggravated by the dastardly cruelties practised on helpless infancy in this foul den. Have a ca

h his instrument of torture, which raised a bar of livid flesh as it was inflicted. Smarting with the agony of the blow, and concentrating into that one moment all his fe

rom his infuriated adversary; while Miss Squeers, who had been peeping through the keyhole in the expectation of a very different scene, darted in at the very beginning of the attack, and after launching a shower of inkstands at the usher's head, beat Nichol

arm grew weaker besides, he threw all his remaining strength into half a dozen finishing cuts, and flung Squeers from him, with all the force he could muster. The violence of his

and not dead (upon which point he had some unpleasant doubts at first), Nicholas left his family to restore him, and retired to

inding that nobody offered to oppose his progress, marched boldly out by the fron

"Nicholas

S IN T

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g, foining and striking, and many a grim word was there spoken either to other, and many a deadly stroke. But ever king Arthur rode throughout the battle of Sir Mordred many times, and did full nobly as a noble king should; and at all times he fainted never. And Sir Mor

her Sir Bedivere: and they full were sore wounded. Jesu mercy, said the king, where are all my noble knights becomen. Alas that ever I should see this doleful day. For now, said Arthur, I am come to mine end. But would to God that I wist where were that traitor S

body more than a fathom. And when Sir Mordred felt that he had his death's wound, he thrust himself, with the might that he had, up to the bur of king Arthur's spear. And right so he smote Arthur with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the br

lay foaming at the mouth. Alas, said the king, this is unto me a full heavy sight to see this noble duke so die for my sake, for he would have holpen me that had more need of help than I. Alas, he would not complain him, his heart was so set to help me. Now Jesu have mercy up

departed, and by the way he beheld that noble sword, that the pommel and haft were all of precious stones, and then he said to himself, If I throw this rich sword in the water, thereof shall never come good, but harm and loss. And then Sir Bedivere hid Excalibur under a tree. And as soon as he might he came again unto the

said the king. Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan. Ah traitor, untrue, said king Arthur, now hast thou betrayed me twice. Who would have wend that thou that hast been to me so lief and dear, and thou art named a noble knight, and would betray me for the

as far into the water as he might, and there came an arm and an hand above the water, and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away t

lack hoods, and all they wept and shrieked when they saw king Arthur. Now put me into the barge, said the king: and so he did softly. And there received him three queens with great mourning, and so they set him down, and in one of their laps king Ar

s thou mayest, for in me is no trust for to trust in. For I will into the vale of Avilion, to heal me of my grievous wound. And if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul. But

homas

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escaped their

ial g

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ose in

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the

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a p

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ch the halberd

the

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er G

the trumpets p

the

the labouring

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your

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l of

n the dusky be

ple

ngland ne'er ha

shal

to Berwick boun

ord

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st and swift to

lame

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p the Spaniard

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quick the bell

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AND DEAT

is heart was as humane as it was fearless; that there was not in his nature the slightest alloy of selfishness or cupidity; but that, with perfect and entire devotion, he served his country with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength; and therefore, they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England. They pressed upon the parapet to gaze after him when his barge pushed off, and he

two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulet on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round, saw three men raising him up. "They have done for me at last, Hardy," said he. "I hope not," cried Hardy. "Yes," he replied, "my backbone is shot through." Yet even now, n

concealed from all except Captain Hardy, the chaplain, and the medical attendants. He himself being certain, from the sensation in his back and the gush of blood he felt momently within his breast, that no human care could avail him, insisted

t each hurrah, a visible expression of joy gleamed in the eyes and marked the countenance of the dying hero. But he became impatient to see Hardy; and as that officer, though ofte

five of the van have tacked and show an intention to bear down upon the Victory. I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck." Hardy answered, "There is no fear of that." Then, and not till then, Nelson spoke of himself. "I am a dead m

. I feel something rising in my breast," putting his hand on his left side, "which tells me so." And upon Beatty's inquiring whether his pain was v

ible to perceive them distinctly, but fourteen or fifteen at least. "That's well," said Nelson; "but I bargained for twenty." And then, in a stronger voice, he said, "Anchor, Hardy, anchor." Hardy, thereupon, hinted that Admiral Collingwood would take upon

wise. Then reverting to private feelings,-"Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek; and Nelson said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty!" Hardy stood over

proaching. His articulation now became difficult, but he was distinctly heard to say, "Thank God, I have done my duty!" These words he repeatedly pronou

eply we loved and reverenced him. What the country had lost in its great naval hero-the greatest of our own and of all former times-was scarcely taken into the account of grief. So perfectly, indeed, had he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not

e and the nation would have alike delighted to honour; whom every tongue would have blessed; whose presence in every village through which he might have passed would have awakened

scarcely seemed to receive any addition from the most signal victory that ever was achieved upon the seas. The destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frust

me. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid, that of the hero in the hour of victory; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has le

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view. The heavy brigade in advance is drawn up in two lines. The light cavalry brigade is on their left, in two lines also. The

red yards, down goes that line of steel in front, and out rings a rolling volley of Minié musketry. The distance is too great: the Russians are not checked, but still sweep onward through the smoke with the whole force of horse and man, here and there knocked over by the shot of our batteries above. With breathless suspense everyone awaits the

they never altered their formation to receive that tide of horsemen. "No," said Sir Colin Campbell, "I did not think it worth while to

t of lances glistened in their rear, and several squadrons of gray-coated dragoons moved up quickly to support them as they reached the summit. The instant they came in sight the trumpets of our cavalry gave out the warning blast which told us all that in another moment we should see the shock of battle beneath our very

r line equally strong and compact. They evidently despised their insignificant-looking enemy: but their time was come. The trumpets rang out again through the valley, and the Greys and the Enniskilleners went right at t

lightning flashes through a cloud the Greys and Enniskilleners pierced through the dark masses of Russians. The shock was but for a moment. There was a clash of steel and a light play of sword-blades in the air, and then the Greys and the Red-coats disappear in the midst of the shaken and quivering columns. In another m

nd sheer courage Enniskillener and Scot were winning their desperate way right through the enemy's squadrons, and already gray horses and red coats had appeared right at the rear of the second mass, when, with irresistible force like a bolt from a bow, the second line of the h

had not gone far enough in front when the enemy's horse had fled, gave an order in writing to Captain Nolan to take to Lord Lucan, directing his lordship "to advance"

the flank of a line of cavalry some squadrons in column-the attack on the flank being most dangerous. The only support our light cavalry had was the reserve of heavy cavalry at a great distance behind

continental armies, and yet it was more than we could spare. As they rushed towards the front the Russians opened on them from the guns in the red

Their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part-discretion. They advanced in two lines, quickening

with the most deadly accuracy, with a halo of flashing steel above their heads, and with a cheer which was many a noble fellow's death-cry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries, but ere they were lost from view the plain was strewn with their bodies and with the carcasses of horses. They were exposed to an oblique fire from the batteries on the hills on both sides, as well as to a direct fire of musketry. Through the clouds of smoke we could see their sabres flashing as they r

heir flank. Colonel Shewell saw the danger and rode his few men straight to them, cutting his

re of civilized nations. The Russian gunners, when the storm of cavalry passed, returned to their guns. They saw their own cavalry mingled with the troopers who had just ridden over them, and,

e band of heroes as they returned to the place they had so lately quitted. At thirty-five minutes

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taking in every feature of the shores with keen eyes that let nothing escape. After we had gone on in this placid manner for maybe an hour, we suddenly came to a stupendous cliff-that is, for those parts-rising almost sheer from the water for about a thousand feet. Of itself it would not have arrested our attention, but at its base was a semicircular opening, like the mouth of a small tunnel. This looked alluring, so I headed the boat for it, passing through a deep channel between two reefs which led straight to the opening. There was ample room for us to enter, as we had lowered the mast; but just as we were passing through, a heave of the unnoticed swell lifted us unpleasantly near the crown of this natural arch. Beneath us, at a great depth, the bottom could be dimly discerned, the water being of the richest blue conceivable, which the sun, striking down through, resolved into some most marvellous colour-sch

o the bowels of the mountain, we turned and started to go back. Do what we would, we could not venture to break the solemn hush that surrounded us, as if we were shut within the dome of some vast cathedral in the twilight. So we paddled noiselessly along for the exit, till suddenly an awful, inexplicable roar set all our hearts thumping fit to break our bosoms. Really, the sensation was most painful, especially as we had not the faintest idea whence the noise came or what had produced it. Again it filled that immense cave with its thunderous reverberations; but this time all the sting was taken ou

n that our position could only be compared to that of men shooting Niagara in a cylinder at night. How we kept afloat, I do not know. Some one had the gumption to cut the line, so that by the radiation of the disturbance we presently found ourselves close to the wall, and trying to hold the boat in to it with our finger tips. Would he never be quiet? we thought, as the thrashing, banging, and splashing still went on with unfailing vigour. At last, in, I suppose, one supreme effort to es

isoners for many hours, it not being at all probable that we should be able to find our way out during the night ebb. Well, we were not exactly children, to be afraid of the dark, although there is considerable difference between the velvety darkness of a dungeon and the clear, fresh night of t

until the depths beneath were all ablaze with brilliant foot-wide ribbons of green glare, dazzling to the eye and bewildering to the brain. Occasionally a gentle splash or ripple alongside, or a smart tap on the bottom of the boat, warned us how thick the concourse was that had gathered below. Until that weariness which no terror is proof against set in, sleep was impossible, nor could we keep our anxious gaze fr

the huge carcass of the whale lying on the bottom, who had met his fate in a singular but not unheard-of way. At that last titanic effort of his he had rushed downward with such terrific force that, striking his head on the bottom, he had broken his neck. I felt very grieved that we had lost the chance of securing

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ed hunter, lofty and chivalrous in his bearing, who is bounding heedlessly on after a chamois to the very verge of a precipice. Mark!-he loses his footing-he rolls helplessly from rock to rock! There is a pause in his headlong course. What is it that arrests him? Ah! he puts forth his mighty strength, and clings, hand an

a hunted chamois; now creeping like an insect; now clinging like a root of ivy; now dropping like a squirrel:-he reaches the fainting monarch just as he relaxes his grasp on the jutting rock. Courage, Kaiser!-there is a hunter's hand for thee, a hunter's iron-shod foot to guide thee to safety. Look!

of Hapsburg may still be seen an entry to this effect: that sixteen florins were paid annually to one "Zyps of Zirl." As you look up from the base

them, and whirling them round in hissing eddies. At intervals the clouds are rent asunder, and the moon takes a hurried look at the world below. What does she see? and wh

he derisive laugh of the storm. At the head of the melée there is a litter borne on the shoulders of a set of sure-footed hunters of the hills; and around this litter is clustered a moving constellation of lamps, which are a

aquiline nose, that cold, stern blue eye, and that heavy, obstinate, Austrian underlip, for other than those of the mighty Emperor Charles V? And can this suffering invalid, flying from foes who are almost on the heels of his attendants, jolted over craggy passes in midnight darkness, buffeted by the tempest, and withered b

of daring, and in strength of will. But Charles wins the midnight race; and yet, instead of bowing before Him whose "long-suffering would lead to re

his sole adviser, that the Tyrol shall be cleared of its troublesome nest of warrior-hunters. Ten thousand Fre

arrow road, painfully grooved by the hand of man out of the mountain side, now running along like a gallery, now dropping down to the brink of the stream. But the glittering array winds on. There is the heavy tread of the foot-soldiers, the trampling of horse, the dull rumble of the guns

s breath and listens. Was it a spirit of the upper air parleying with its kind? If so, it has its answer countersigned across the dark gulf. "Noch nicht!"-"Not yet!" The whole invading army pause: there is

d roots of pine trees, gathering speed on their headlong way, are launched down upon the powerless foe, mingled with the deadly hail of the Tyrolese rifles. And this fearful storm descends along t

vil ambitions and his fierce revenges, to stain and to spoil such wonders of beauty as the hand of the Creator has here moulded.

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but the greater part of its area was occupied by open spaces; the modern Babylon is a dense mass of humanity. London with its suburbs has five millions of inhabitants, and still it grows. It grows through the passion which seems to be seizing mankind everywhere, on this continent as well as in Europe, for emigration from the country into the town, not only as the centre of wealth and employment, but as the centre of excitement, and, as the people fondly fancy, of enjoyment. The Empire and the commercial relations of England draw representatives of trading communities or subject races from all parts of the globe, and the faces and costumes of the Hindoo, the Parsi, the Lascar, and the ubiquitous Chinaman, mingle in the motley crowd with the merchants of Europe and America. The streets of London are, in this respect, to the modern, what the great Place of Tyre must have been to the ancient world. But pile Carthage on Tyre, Venice on Carthage, Amsterdam on Venice, and you wil

we see reason for concluding that though there may be fraud and scamping in the industrial world, genuine production, faithful service, disciplined energy, and skill in organization cannot wholly have departed from the earth. London is not only well fed, but well suppl

the hour or two before dawn, when the last carriages have rolled away from the balls and the market carts have hardly begun to come i

anything to s

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emergency of war. Let it come when it may, it will not find her unprepared. So thickly are her colonies and naval sta

gh the Pillars of Hercules, sped on his way to the distant, and then savage, Britain. It was a great centre when Rome and Carthage wrestled in a d

e is not a sea or a gulf in the world, which has any real commercial importance, but England has a stronghold on its shores. And wherever the continents tending southward come to points, around which the commerce of nations must sweep, there is a B

holds the key to every one of these gates. Count them-Gibraltar, Malta, Aden. But she commands the entrance to the Red Sea, not by one, but by several strongholds. Midway in the narrow strait is the black, bare rock

ing a harbour safe in all winds, and a central coal dep?t. This England bought in 1839. And to complete her security, she has purchased from some petty sultan the

teas of China; the silks of farther India; the spices of the East. The ships of every clime and nation swarm on its waters-the stately barques of England, France, and Holla

ng care, is growing up to take its place among the great emporiums of the world. Half-way up the sea she holds the island of Labuan, whose chief worth is this, that beneath its surface and that of the neighbouring mainland there lie inexhaustible t

post, its shores so scooped and torn by the waves that it must be a very paradise of commodious bays and safe havens for the mariner. The soil, too, is of extraordinary fertility; and the climate, though humid, deals kindly with the Englishman's constitution. Nor is this all; for, advanc

s will yield them. Is this all that can be said? Reflect a little more deeply. These islands possess a great military and naval dep?t; and a splendid harbour, landlocked, strongly fortified, and difficult of access to strangers;-and all within a few days' sail of the chief ports of the Atlantic shores of th

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er of the

el of the jo

the noblest w

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lm

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T I

t it is. In a short sentence it may be summed up to be the combination and concentration of all

he country can be but sufficiently excited and deluded. You may raise up great generals. You may have another Wellington, and another Nelson, too; for this country can grow men capable of

rom the lively oracles of God, and from the direct revelation of the Omnipotent. You have even conceived the magnificent project of illuminating the whole earth, even to its remotest and darkest recesses, by the dissemination of the volume of the New Testament, in whose

e shall see, and at no very distant time, sound economic principles spreading much more widely amongst the people; a sense of justice growing up in a soil which hitherto has been deemed unfruitful; and-which will be better than all-the churches of the United Kingdom, the churches of Britain, awaking as it were from their slu

n B

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and illim

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dark nigh

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ya

INATION

ed by the removal of the mantle of snow, lighting up with flickering, changing glow a rectangular door yard, the children stand and gaze into the dancing flame, their vast, distorted, ghostlike shadows lost in the night, their faces reflecting every evanescent glare, and their spirits ch

-glass of coast lighthouses, swerving from the control of the all-powerful migratory instinct toward the fascinating glare that is their destruction. It is not sportsmanlike to hang a lantern in the marsh and shoot the duck that gather under it. But the

A passing breath of wind, even the slightest motion of the punt, breaks every shadow and indentation into myriad fleeting ripples and waves of light, transforming the slender, silent fish into a sheaf of wriggling glimmers. With the stilling of the surface, the wa

dges were made smooth. He collected lumber from all available sources for the ends and bottom, fastening them on with a miscellaneous collection of nails and springs. Then he patiently picked an old piece of tarred rope into oakum, and caulked it into the seams with a sharpened gate-hinge. He notched a pine tree, gathered the gum and boiled it into pitch to make the joints tight. That extraord

preserve for his shooting? Will that bunch of hair protruding from under his hat be worn thin and gray in scrambling after the delights of the vain and the covetous? Will he devote his su

T.

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his back against the angle of the door-post, and his long legs stretched out, while he held a large book open on his knee, and occasionally made a dash with his hand at an inqu

ently unconscious of anything around her. An eager life had left its marks upon her: the finely-moulded cheek had sunk a little, the golden crown was less massive; but the

ut was not quite sure whether she would like that entertainment just now. But persevering looks make themselves felt at last. Romola did presently turn away her eyes from the distance and

as a handsome lad, but his features were turning out to be more massive and le

ntented that there was a prospect of talking till

olar. My father was a scholar, you know, and taught me

. "But he is old and blind in the pict

say what was false. And then his dear son thought it right to leave him and become a monk; and after that, my father, being blind and lonely, felt una

be something that would make me a great man, and very happy besides-s

good. There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great-he can hardly keep himself from wickedness-unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs to integrity; he chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And so, my Lillo, if you mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix yo

aken Lillo's cheeks between her hands

hen I first knew him, he never thought of doing anything cruel or base. But because he tried to slip away from everything that was unpleasant, and cared for nothing else so much as his own safety, he came at last to commit some

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d, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike. O, but the more venerable for thy rudeness, and even because we must pity as well as love thee! Hardly-entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed: thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our

is outward endeavours, be they high or low? Highest of all, when his outward and his inward endeavour are one; when we can name him Artist; not earthly Craftsman only, but inspired Thinker, who with heaven-made Implement conquers Heaven for us! If the poor an

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o with these sentences. The principle contained in "Sleep on now" is this, that the past is irreparable, and after a certain moment waking will do no good. You may improve the future, the past is go

ir Master: their friends stand between them and the struggles of existence. They are not called upon to think for themselves: the burden is borne by others. They get their bread without knowing or caring how it is pai

ir fatal sleep? You can suffer your young days to pass idly and uselessly away; you can live as if you had nothing to do but to enjoy yourselves: you can let others think for you, and not try to become thoughtful yourselves: till the business and difficulties of life come upon you u

parent. Our parents stand to us in the place of God. Veneration for our parents is intended to become afterwards adoration for something higher. Take that single instance; and now suppose that that is not learned in boyhood. Suppose that the boy sleeps to the duty of veneration, and learns only flippancy, insubordination, and the habit of deceiving his father,-can that, my young brethren, be repaired afterwards? Humanly speaking not. Life is like the transition from class to class in a school. The school-boy who has not learned arithmetic in the earlier classes, cannot secure it when he comes to mechanics in the higher: each section has its own sufficient work. He may be a good philosopher or

ich must be done while the stillness of the garden of Gethsemane gives you time. Now, or Never. The treasures at your command are infinite. Treasures of time-treasures of youth-treasures of opportunity that

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irection:

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