Long before our vessel had reached the shore, I could

which skirt our home-field.

Walking along the road, I

the tall elms

-, coming towards me, a crowd of chil

dren dressed in their holiday suits, each carrying an oak-branch in his hand. that the chief's intentions towards me were hostile; and

I soon

slipping out unobserved, I withdrew hastily from the conference.

The style of the writers of that age is so obscure and affected, and at the same time so diffusive, that it is no easy matter, amidst so many defects, to

any meaning in their writings.

"One who is actuated by party spirit is almost under an incapacity of either real blemishes or beauties."

"And lastly, turning inwardly her eyes,

how all her own ideas rise."

"Great part of the country was abandoned to the plunder of the soldiers, who not troubling themselves to between a subject and a rebel, whilst

their liberty lasted, made indifferently profit of both."

To raise―to lift.

To raise is to place upright. To lift is to take from the ground. That which is lifted is no longer in contact with its under support. What is raised stands erect, but still touches the ground. If we lift a child who has fallen, we take him in our arms; if we raise a child who has fallen, we make him stand on his legs. In a secondary sense, the same difference exists. Devotion lifts the soul to heaven. "This gentleman came to be raised to great titles."

[Mon. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Romeo and Juliet, v. 3. an unaccustomed spirit

Rom.

Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Id., v. 1.

Antæus was a mighty giant and wrestler in Libya, whose strength was invincible as long as he remained in contact with his mother earth. Hercules discovered the source of his strength, him up from the earth, and crushed him in the air.

When

from the ground, he was so weak that he could not stand upright, and was obliged to be supported home by two men. "Now rosy morn ascends the courts of Jove,

up her light, and opens day above."

As the little girl was too short to see what was going on in the gardens, her father

her up in his arms.

The ladder was so heavy, that it required four men to

the building.

"I would have our conceptions

it against

by dignity of thought and sublimity

of expression, rather than by a train of robes or a plume of feathers." By his great natural powers, aided by industry and perseverance, he was so esteemed and respected that he was at last to the highest dignities

of the state.

"Hark! was there not

A murmur as of distant voices, and

The tramp of feet in martial unison?

What phantoms even of sound our wishes

"The mind, by being engaged in a task beyond its strength, like the body strained by -ing a weight too heavy, has often its force broken."

To receive-to accept.

To accept is a voluntary-to receive an involuntary act. We cannot help receiving, but we are not obliged to accept what is sent to us. That is received which simply comes to hand; that is accepted which we express our willingness to take for ourselves. Thus, we receive a letter when it comes to hand;

we receive news when it reaches us; we accept a present which is offered us; we accept an invitation to dine with a friend, &c.

Ner.

to accept him.

[Vlys.

like a gate of steel

Fronting the sun, receives and renders back
His figure and his heat.

Troil. and Cress., i. 3.

you should refuse to perform your father's will, if you should refuse Merchant of Venice, i. 2.

who, if we knew

What we receive, would either not accept
Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down.

P. L., xi. 505.

But he had felt the power

Of Nature, and already was prepared,
By his intense conceptions, to receive
Deeply the lesson deep of love which he,
Whom Nature, by whatever means, has taught
To feel intensely, cannot but receive.

'The Excursion,' i.

Nor for their bodies would accept release;
But blessing God and praising him, bequeathed

With their last breath, from out the smouldering flame,
The faith which they by diligence had earned
Or through illuminating grace, received
For their dear countrymen, and all mankind.

Exercise.

Id., vi.l

No further intelligence of his proceedings had been

dle of last month.

up to the mid

He was of so independent a character, that though deeply involved in pecuniary difficulties, he did not think proper to

to assist him.

The last accounts we

the offer of a friend

of our friends in India are most satisfactory.

The minister, rising, said that he

with pride and satisfaction the

token of their friendship which they had that day offered him.

The whole party succeeded in reaching Tinian in about three weeks, where they were — with the greatest hospitality, and were treated with all the kindness and attention their deplorable condition required.

The conditions offered by Cæsar, and

by Cassivelaunus, were,

that he should send to the continent double the number of hostages at first demanded, and acknowledge subjection to the Romans.

"The sweetest cordial we― at last,

Is conscience for our virtuous actions past."
"Unransomed here
the spotless fair,

the hecatomb the Greeks prepare."

To remark-to observe.

To remark is to note down casually; to observe is to note down intentionally. A slight degree of attention will call forth a remark. An observation is the result of inquiry. We often cannot help remarking; but in observing, we direct our attention specially to some object. A remark will very frequently lead to an observation. A phenomenon in the heavens may be remarked by a casual spectator, but will be observed by an astronomer. A remark is momentary; an observation

Exercise.

Macbeth, i. 6.

P. L., v. 262.

'The Excursion,' iv.

'Poems on Naming of Places.']

"It was also of Cromwell, that though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education and breeding connected with such an advantage, he never could acquire the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in their intercourse with each other."

sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune.” "Othello is the vigorous and vivacious offspring of genius."

"The course of time is so visibly marked, that it is birds."

impregnated by

even by

"The rules of our practice are taken from the conduct of such persons as fall within our

"We may

children discourse and reason correctly on many sub

jects at a comparatively early age."

To remember-to recollect.

We remember what has happened without any great effort ; we recollect after some exertion of the memory. When the idea of some past occurrence presents itself spontaneously to the mind, that occurrence is remembered; but when, after everal attempts, an idea becomes clear and distinct, it is then recollected. It will therefore be more proper to say—“ I ́do not remember" and, "I cannot recollect."

[North.

Sounds ever after as a sullen bell

— his tongue

Remembered knolling a departing friend.

2 Henry IV., i. 1.
Duke.
it did relieve my passion much;
More than light airs and recollected terms.

Remember with what mild

And gracious temper he both heard and judged,

Twelfth Night, ii. 4.

I

cannot

-," said he, "all the circumstances of nothing more than what I have already re

perfectly what occurred up to a certain point of time; but I

what took place afterwards.

There died lately at Hampstead, a gentleman named Thompson, who was endowed with such an extraordinary power of memory, that he and could accurately describe all the most minute objects in any street or road he had once passed through; and that after a considerable lapse of time.

Those who have ready memories learn easily, but do not whose memories are retentive have but little difficulty in have once learnt.

-; those

what they