9. Will you die of want in the land which your labor has made productive?

10. God is seen in the growth of vegetation, in the movements of the heavenly bodies, and in the rage of the elements.

II. A very small proportion of those who have attempted to solve this problem, have succeeded.

12. The garden was filled with an immense number of flowers. When he began to fight, he meant to win or die (sword scabbard).

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14. Will you behold your country in flames, and the fruit of the people's toil (harvests) destroyed?

15. Peace had now been enjoyed by the nation for a considerable time, during which the public revenue had increased by a large sum.

16. Will you look on while the inhabitants (Cossacks) of the north crush (tread . . . foot) your dearest foot) your dearest friends (fathers, mothers, etc.)?

17. Do men gather grateful and nutritious fruit from trees that bear only prickly armor (figs . . . thistles)?

18. I sat by her when she was a babe (cradle), I followed her to the grave.

19. The Jewish nation, relying on the teaching of its prophets, looked forward to a time when its descendants should be as numerous as the stars, when the corn of the earth should be abundant, when each man should rest beneath the shade of his own trees, and when the instruments of war should be converted to the uses of peace.

20. The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young foliage of the trees between me and the blue sky, the various flowers and herbs at my feet - what grove of tropical trees, plants, or flowers, could ever thrill me like this home scene?

21. Such a man might fall a victim to power; but truth, and reason, and liberty, would fall with him.

22. Then did Æneas pass on his way, and the goddess led him, and the flames gave place to him, and the javelins harmed him not.

23. They brought beds and basins and earthen vessels and wheat and barley and flour and parched corn and beans and lentil and parched pulse and honey and butter and sheep and cheese of kine.

24. I cannot but imagine that the virtuous heroes, the virtuous legislators, and the virtuous patriots of every age and of every country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest. 25. True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to the king and the beggar.

26. The walls are scaled, and the gates stormed, and the conflict follows, and blood flows. Then the magistrates interfere; Savonarola and one of his chief friends are seized and conveyed, by order of the magistrates, to prison.

27. Although he was then nearly eighty years of age, he sent to England for books, and began the task of learning Greek.

28. Thou hast done well, thou who art a good and faithful servant. 29. Let us have Liberty first, and then let us have Union afterwards.

30. Newton was very far from being correct (was out) in his calculations.

31. He reached a conclusion without giving the matter due consideration (jumped to).

32. People who make very loud threats seldom have the heart to carry them out. (Barking dogs, etc.)

33. When our difficulties are overcome, we frequently forget to be grateful to those who aided us in the hour of need. (The river past, and God forgotten.)

34. The poet is born, he cannot be made by any course of training.

35. His ambition was to gain honor and to gain wealth and to gain fame.

36. Do not complain of things that are done and cannot be helped. (Spilt milk.)

37. It is folly to let the cause of an evil continue and still labor to prevent the results. (Pump with the leak open.)

LESSON XXV.

STRENGTH FROM VARIETY.

Strength is promoted by Variety. Sameness of any kind in writing is tiresome; variety is one of the chief sources of pleasure. Light and shade, energy and ease, strength and weakness, beauty and deformity, have a greater effect when placed side by side.

Kinds of Variety. - The variety here spoken of may be of several kinds.

1. Instead of repeating a word, it is generally better to use a synonym; as, "The flesh was weary, the spirit faint, and I was getting out of humor with the bustling crowd."

2. Variety of expression, as illustrated in subsequent Lessons, should be constantly turned to use, so that no stereotyped form may be allowed to appear.

3. Particular and general terms should be introduced, each when most effective.

4. Sentences of all kinds — long, short, simple, compound, and complex, the period, loose sentence, and compromise — should all be employed, not with studied stiffness and measured precision, but in such alternation that they may relieve one another, and effectually bar all monotony.

5. The order should be varied — sometimes the direct, sometimes the indirect.

6. At times thoughts should be stated at length, and even repeated; at others, they must be uttered with the baldest brevity.

7. Sometimes the simplest words appeal most strongly to our feelings; at other times the longest and heaviest strike the hardest blows.

8. Figures of Speech should be introduced to enforce, beautify, and enliven the plain language, as the nature of the subject and its treatment will permit.

9. Discourse may sometimes be rendered more animated by

turning some of the leading declarative sentences into the interrogative form. This arrangement is usually known as a figure of speech, under the name of Interrogation. Thus, the expression "Who is equal to him?" is more lively than " He has no equal." Besides, if such interrogations are interspersed among declarations, they break the monotony as well as flatter the reader by asking him to take part in the discussion, and by showing respect for his opinions.

10. Again, when strong feeling is being expressed, the writer may, instead of making a full length statement, break out into an Exclamation. Thus, it would both indicate and arouse greater intensity of feeling to burst out with the exclamation, "Beautiful!" or, "How beautiful!" than to say, "This is beautiful." This, also, is generally classed as a figure of speech.

II. In narration or description, one may conceive so lively a view of his subject as to fancy that the distant or the past is actually present, and may speak of it in the present tense, as if at the moment under his view. This manner of speaking is commonly called Vision.

DIRECTION.

EXERCISE XXXVIII.

STRENGTH FROM VARIETY.

Refer to the sections of the preceding Lesson, and make these expressions stronger by using some of the means there pointed out.

1. There are here many goodly creatures (10)

2. He that hath planted the ear, must surely be able to hear (9).

3. All this bustle and terror is not because anything substantial is expected (9).

4. He must exert his talents at home, for there is surely no other place where he can obtain a profitable credit for his exertion (9).

5. The scenes of my childhood are dear to my heart (10).

6. The fears which such a situation must inspire are boundless (10).

7. You cannot put your hand into the fire and not be burned (9).

8. Our hearts were beating when we saw the army of the League drawn out in long array (10).

9. He commanded them to fix bayonets and charge (10). 10. We laid him down slowly and sadly (5).

11. The world of God around us is indeed glorious; but the world of God within us is still more glorious (5).

12. They sailed by the sandy shores of Araya, they sailed past the lofty cocoanut trees that stand over Cumana, they sailed along that beautiful coast, they sailed through the difficult waters of the gloomy Golofo Trieste, they sailed past the province of Venezuela, and they sailed on to Darien (1).

her sun

13. And, once again, man asks for light. It is as he sits yonder beside his dead in the chamber (2) that has grown dark. His heart went out (5) to her in the jocund days (2) of youth, and twined (5) its tendrils round her. Lovely and beautiful (5) were they as they grew in wisdom, confidence, and love. But (5) over her the ruthless blast has swept, she gave up the ghost (5) in the very pride of motherhood: she died while yet a young woman (8. .). And soon he "must bury his dead out of his sight." Mysterious and dark are the mission and meaning of Death (9. What is . . ., O Death?). Perhaps it ends all, or perhaps we pass through it back again, as rain-drops, into the vast immensity of the all-individuality and are lost forever; or perhaps we shall live again (9. Dost thou, indeed, . . . ?). ?). It is not sentimentalism that thus speaks, for (4) the strongest minds have heaved the lead in these mysterious depths, and (4) the mightiest hearts have quaked with strange terror in presence of these problems. He who is Christianity himself replies. In His own person He grappled with, wrested the power (3) from the sovereign (3) of terrors, and over his prostrate form marched forth from Death's dominion (3) with the note of triumph on His lip