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Greatness....

Hamlet's Soliloquy....

Shakspeare. 265

Happy Freedom of the Man whom Grace makes Free.

Horatius...

Hyder Ali..

Hymn to the Deity

Cowper. 295

Macaulay. 436

Burke. 246

Thomson. 278

Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence.

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Lines supposed to have been Written by Alexander
Selkirk, during his solitary abode on the Island of

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Sheridan Lefanor. 516
T. Buchanan Read. 522

Tillotson. 359

..J. G. Whittier, 472

Philip Lawrence. 433

of their Creator...

The Hermit....

Beattie. 236

The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571.)

Jean Ingelow. 450

The Hour of Prayer.....

Mrs. Hemans. 389

The Importance of Order in the Distribution of our Time.

INTRODUCTION.

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AN is designed for action. Nature has so constituted him, that both body and mind require daily exercise to develope their powers, and maintain them in a vigorous and healthy condition. The truth of this remark is

manifest from constant observation and experience - those who lead active, bustling lives, conjoined with temperance and prudence, commonly possess robust frames, and healthy constitutions; while the sedentary and the indolent are enervated and sickly.

We find the same results from the exercise of the mental faculties. He whose mind is constantly employed in the acquisition of knowledge, usually retains his mental faculties unimpaired to the last. But not so with the man of ease and indolence. After the meridian of life, the powers of his mind, with those of the body, become weaker, and weaker, and he finally leaves the world as he entered it - a child.

The health and strength of the body, therefore, mainly depend on the number of muscles that are frequently called into action, and the degree of rational exercise through which they pass. Now there are few, if any, whose daily avocations are so varied as to bring into requisition all the muscles of the body: hence the necessity of gymnastic exercises.

The term, gymnastics, in its widest sense, signifies all bodily exercises; in a more limited sense, "exercises syste matically adapted to develope the physical powers, and preserve them in perfection, which constitutes the art of gymnastics properly so called."

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