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boy, for the first time, the meaning of his life: that it was no fool's or sluggard's paradise, into which he had wandered by chance, but a battle-field, ordained from of old, where there are no spectators, but the youngest must take his side, and the stakes are life and death. And he, who roused this consciousness in them, showed them, at the same time, by every word he spoke in the pulpit, and by his whole daily life, how that battle wa to be fought; and stood there before them, their fellow. soldier and the captain of their band.

5. The true sort of captain, too, for a boys' army; one who had no misgivings, and gave no uncertain. word of command, and, let who would yield or make truce, would fight the fight out-so every boy felt to the last gasp, and the last drop of blood. Other sides. of his character might take hold of and influence boys, here and there, but it was this thoroughness and undaunted courage which, more than any thing else, won his way to the hearts of the great mass of those on whom he left his mark, and made them believe, first in him, and then in his Master. HUGHES.

CXVI. ONWARD.

RAMP'ANT, a., violently active.

| TRI-UMPH'ANT, a., joyfully victorious

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Not as though I had already attained. — PHILIPPIANS, iii. 12.

Nor, my soul, what thou hast done,
But what thou art doing;

Not the course which thou hast run,
But which thou 'rt pursuing;

Not the prize already won,
But that thou art wooing!

Thy progression, not thy rest,-
Striving, not attaining,—

Is the measure and the test

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Of thy hope remaining;

Not in gain thou 'rt half so blest
As in conscious gaining.

If thou to the Past wilt go,
Of Experience learning,
Faults and follies it can show,-
Wisdom dearly earning;

But the path once trodden, know,
Hath no more returning.

Let not thy good hope depart,

Sit not down bewailing;

Rouse thy strength anew, brave heart!
'Neath despair's assailing:
This will give thee fairer start,—
Knowledge of thy failing.

Yet shall every rampant wrong
In the dust be lying,-

Soon thy foes, though proud and strong

In defeat be flying;

Then shall a triumphant song

Take the place of sighing.

J. K. LOMBARD.

CXVII. HANNIBAL TO. HIS ARMY.

AL-LIES', n. pl., confederates.

A-MASSED', pp., heaped up.

PRE-SCRIBE', v., to give law.

AS-SAIL'ANT, n., one who attacks.

IM-PET'U-OUS, a., violent; forcible.

VET'ER-AN, a., long exercised.

AL-TER'NA-TIVE (ǎl-), n., a choice giv en of two things.

Pronounce Alpine, ăl-pin: hostile, hos'til; Carthaginians, Kar-tha-jin'yans.

1. HERE, soldiers, you must either conquer or die. On the right and left two seas enclose you; and you have no ship to fly to for escape. The river Po around you, the Po, larger and more impetuous than the Rhone, the Alps behind, scarcely passed by you

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when fresh and vigorous, hem you in. Here For tune has granted you the termination of your labors; here she will bestow a reward worthy of the service you have undergone.

2. All the spoils that Rome has amassed by so many triumphs will be yours. Think not that, in proportion as this war is great in name, the victory will be difficult. From the Pillars* of Her'cu-les, from the ocean, from the remotest limits of the world, over mountains and rivers, you have advanced victorious through the fiercest nations of Gaul and Spain. And with whom are you now to fight? With a raw army, which this very summer was beaten, conquered and surrounded; an army unknown to their leader, and he to them!

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3. Shall I compare myself, almost born, and certainly bred, in the tent of my father, that illustrious commander, myself, the conqueror, not only of the Alpine nations, but of the Alps themselves, myself, who was the pupil of you all, before I became your commander, to this six months' general? or shall I compare his army with mine?

4. On what side soever I turn my eyes, I behold all full of courage and strength: - a veteran infantry; a most gallant cavalry; you, our allies, most faithful and valiant; you, Carthaginians, whom not only your country's cause, but the justest anger, impels to battle. The valor, the confidence of invaders, are ever greater than those of the defensive party. As the assailants in this war, we pour down, with hostile standards; upon Italy. We bring the war. Suffering, injury and indignity, fire our minds.

5. First they demanded me, your leader, for punishment; and then all of you, who had laid siege to Sagun'tum. And, had we been given up, they would have visited us with the severest tortures. Cruel and

* An ancient name for the heights of Gibraltar and of the opposite coast

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haughty nation! Every thing must be yours, your disposal! You are to prescribe to us wit we shall have war - with whom peace! You shut us up by the boundaries of mountains and which we must not pass!

6. But you - you are not to observe the lim yourselves have appointed! "Pass not the I-b What next? "Saguntum is on the Iberus must not move a step in any direction!" small thing that you have deprived us of ou ancient provinces, Sicily and Sardinia? Will y Spain also? Should we yield Spain, you wil over into Africa. Will cross, did I say? The sent the two Consuls of this year, one to Afr other to Spain !

Soldiers, there is nothing left to us, in any o but what we can vindicate with our swords. Le be cowards who have something to look back whom, flying through safe and unmolested road own country will receive. There is a necessity to be brave. There is no alternative but vic death; and, if it must be death, who would not encounter it in battle than in flight? The in gods could give no stronger in-cen'tive to y Let but these truths be fixed in your minds, an again I proclaim, you are conquerors!

CEASE, then, nor order imperfection name;
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;

RESULTS OF THE AMERICAN WAR, 1780.

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AR-RAIGN' (ar-rāne'), v. t., to accuse, | PRO-SCRIBED', pp., put out of the pro

as in a court of justice. RE'SCRIPT, n., an imperial edict. BAY'O-NET, n., a dagger at the end of a gun; so called from Bayonne, in France, where it was first made. AS-CRIBE', v. t., to attribute to.

tection of the law.

MAS'SA-CRE (mas'sa-ker), n., promis.
cuous slaughter; butchery.
MAN-I-FES'TO, n., a public declaration.
SAN'GUIN-A-RY (sang'gwin-a-ry), a.,
bloody; murderous.

Pronounce Parliament, Par'le-ment. In produced, &c., heed the sound of long u.

1. WE are charged with expressing joy at the triumphs of America. True it is that, in a former session, I proclaimed it as my sincere opinion, that if the Ministry had succeeded in their first scheme against the liberties of America, the liberties of this country would have been at an end. Thinking this, as I did, in the sincerity of an honest heart, I rejoiced at the resist ance which the Ministry had met to their attempt. That great and glorious statesman, the late Lord Chatham, feeling for the liberties of his native country. thanked Heaven that America had resisted.

2. But, it seems, "all the calamities of the country are to be ascribed to the wishes, and the joy, and the speeches, of Opposition." O, miserable and un fortunate Ministry! O, blind and incapable men! whose measures are framed with so little foresight, and executed with so little firmness, that they not only crumble to pieces, but bring ruin on the country, merely because one rash, weak or wicked man, in the House of Commons, makes a speech against them!

3. But who is he who arraigns gentlemen on this side of the House with causing, by their inflammatory speeches, the misfortunes of their country? The accusation comes from one whose inflammatory ha rangues have led the nation, step by step, from violence to violence, in that inhuman, unfeeling system of blood

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