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SniIsoa.

"Call him henceforward, the most glo-
rious one that ever existed upon earth. II
two, Bacon and Shakespeare, have equalled
him in diversity and intensity Of power, did
either Of these spring away with such Teso-
luton from the sublmest highths OF genius,
to liberate and illuminate with patient la
Dor the manacled human race! And what
is his recompense? The same recompense
as all men like him have received, and will
receive for ages. Persecution follows
Righteousness; the Scorpion is next in sue
cession TO Libra"
GAS the needle turns away from the MS
ing sun, from the meridian, from the occl-
dental, from regions Of fragrancy and gold
and gems, and moves with unerring impulse
to the frosts and deserts Of the North, so
Milton and some few others, in politics,
philosophy, and religion, walk through the
busy multitude, wave aside the imPortunate
trader, and, after a momentary oscillation
from external agency, are found in the
twilight and in the storm, pointing with Ger
tain index to the polestar Of immutable
truth. have often been amused al
thinking in what estimation the greatest o
mankind were holden by their contempora
ries. Not even the most sagacious and pru
dent one could discover much Of them, o.
could Prognosticate their future course il
the in6nity Of space! Men like ourselve
are permitted to stand near and indeed ii
the very presence Of Milton what do the,
see DARK clothes, grey hair, and sightles
eyes! Other men have better things: othe
men, therefore, are nobler The stars them
selves are only bright by distance; go clos
and all is earthly. But vapors illuminat
these from the breath and from the cour
tenance Of God comes light on world
higher than they worlds to which he hi
given the forms and names Of Shakspeal
and Milton. Waller Sarage Lander.
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'But who, whether among the graver or
less grave. is Just to woman? There may
be moments when the beloved tells US, and
tells US truly, that We are dearer TO her than
life. Is not this enough is it not above all
merit! Yet, if ever the ardof OF her en-
lhuslasm subsidies; if her love ever loses,
later in the day, the spirit and vivacity Of its
early dawn; if between the sigh and the
blush an interval is PercePtible, if the arm
mistakes the chair for the shoulder; what
all oulcry is there what proclamation OF
her injustice and her Inconsistency what an
alienation Of shrinking and sPurning at the
GOODNESS of her heart Do we ask within
if our own has retained all It's ancient 10y
atty, all its own warmth and all that was
poured into il Often The true lover has
little of true love compared with what he
has undeservedly received and unreasonably
exacls. But let it also be remembered that
marriage is the metemPsychosis Of women ;
that il turns them into different creatures
from what they We're before. Liveliness in
the girl may have been mistaken for good
temper the little pervicacity which at first
is aluactively provoking, at last provokes
without its attractiveness; negligence Of or
der and propriety, Of duties and eivilities,
long endured, often deprecated, ceases to be
tolerable, when children grow up and are
in danger Of following the example. =
Waller .Sauage La,ldOr.
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Reverence for sSeujus.

The works OF great poets require TO be
approached at the outset with full faith in
their excellence: the reader must be convin-
ced that if he does not fully admire them, it
is his fault and not theirs. This is no more
than a ust tribute to their reputation; in
other words, it is the proper modesty Of an
individual thinking his own unpractised
judgment more likely to be mistaken than
the concurring voice Of the public. And it
is the property Of the greatest works of gent
us in other departments also, tina. first view
Of them is generally disappointing; and if a
man were foolish enough to go away trust
ing more to his own hasty impressions than
to the deliberate judgment of the world, he
would remain continually as blind and ig-
norant as he was at the beginning. The
cartoons Of Raphael, at Hampton Court Pal
ace-the frescoes Of the same great painter
in the galleries of the Vatican, at Rome
the famous statues of the LAGOON and the
Apollo Belvidere-and the Church Of ST.
Peter, at Rome, the most magnificent build
ing perhaps in the world-all alike are gen
orally found to disappoint person on his
first view of them. But let him be sure that
they are excellent, and that he only wants
the knowledge and the taste to appreciate
them properly, and every succeeding sight Of
them will open his eyes more and more, till
he learns to admire them, not indeed as
much as they deserve, but so much as great
ly to enrich and enlarge his own mind, by
becoming acquainted with such perfect beau
y. So it is with great poets they must be
read often and studied reverently, before am
unpractised mind can gain anything like an
adequate notion Of their excellence. Mean
while, the process is in itself most useful it
Is good thing TO doubt our own wisdom, it
is good thing to believe, it is a good thing
to admire. By continually looking upwards,
our minds will themselves grow upwards;
and as man, by indulging in habits of
scorn and contempt for others, is sure to de-
scend to the level Of what he despises, 80
the opposite habits Of admiration and en-
thusiastc reverence for excellence impart to
ourselves portion Of the qualities which We
admire; and here, as in everything else, hu.
mility is the surest path to exaltation.-Dr.
Arnoid.
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Lord Byron m n n ~.h.x

Lord Byron wrote more cant Of this ,or
than any poet know Of. Think Of rbs
peasant girls with dark blue eyes of m.
Rhine-the brown-faced, Aat-nosed. lbicL
Tipped, dirty wenches. Think of .fliDg
high cup Of Samian wine; ; small beer :
nectar compared to it, and Byron himself
always drank gin. That man necer wm,.
from his heart. lie got up rapture and en-.
thusiasm with an eye to the public but ms
is dangerous ground, even more dangerOu,
than to look Athens full in the face, and
say that your eyes are not dazzled by il,
beauty. The great public admires Greece
and Byron; the public knows best. Nun
rays Guide Book calls the latter .our Da
live bard Our native bard Non Dis,, I,
He, Shakspeare's, Millions, Keats, Scott,
native bard Well, woe be TO the man
who denies the public Gods The Truth i
then, that Athens is disappointment. and
| am angry that it should be so.-Thaet,.
rays Journey from Co,nhiu 10 Cairo
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Plate.

Grandiloquent and sonorous, his lungs
seem to play the better for the absence OF
the heart His imagination is the most
conspicuous. buoyed up by swelling bill
lows over unsounded depths. There are
his mild thunders, there are his glowing
clouds, his traversing coruscations, and his
shooting stars. More Of true wisdom, more
Of trustworthy manliness, more of prompt.
itude and power to keep you steady and
straightforward on the perilous road of life,
may be found in the lttle manual of Epic
tetus, which could write in the palm OF
my left hand, than there is in all the rolling
and redundant volumes Of this mighty rhet-
orician, which you may begin to transcribe
on the summit Of the great Pyramid, carry
down over the Sphinx at the bottom, and
continue on the sands halfway to Mem
phis. Waller Sarage Lander.
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Decline Of the Turkish Empire,

don't think have anything more 20
say about the city, which has not been much
better told by greater travellers. ], with
them, could see (perhaps it was the preach
ing Of the politicians that warned me OF the
fact,) that we are looking on at the last days
of an empire; and heard many stories OF
weakness, disorder, and oppression. even
saw Turkish lady drive up to Sultan
Achmet's mosque in a Brougham. Is not
that subject to moralise upon And might
one not draw endless conclusions from il,
that the knell of the Turkish dominion is
rung; that the European spirit and institn-
tons once admitted can never be rooted out
again; and thar the scepticism prevalent
amongst the highest orders must descend ere
very long TO the lower; and the cry Of the
Muezim from the mosque become a mere
ceremony !-1hackeray's Journey from
Cornhtu to Cairo.
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Elan nsu.t suffer 90 be Great.

Man is capable Of greater suffering than
any other creature on earth, but he is also
capable Of higher and intenser enioyments,
and that simply because he is a man and
not merely an animal. He lives at large,
the denizen Of eternity; and he is able to
"believe all things, hope all things, and en-
dure all things" with the consciousness
that God owns him, not only as bis crea-
ture, but as bis offspring. Therefore, let us
not say, with the mistaken bard, in whom
passion and impulse so strongly wared
against knowledge
"Dearly bought the hidden treasure
Finer feelings can bestow,
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe,''
BURNS
Rather let us rejoice that the soul OF man
is trained by trials. He must suffer, to be
great; he must conquer himself and the
world, in order to be forever mighty. For
this end the reasonable spirit Of man is in
structed by truth, the mind OF God revealed
within him, that he may rise in faith above
instincts, passions, and opinions, and come
forth an eternal hero, who, through submis
sion in weakness, arms himself with ON
niPotence.-Dr. Moore's Use Of the Body
IN relation 10 the Mind.
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ceedingly amused at my situation; and, con-
sidering that those ladies are Of the Royal
Family of Turkey, you will see that | was
most remarkably honored.
When We approached the bath we enter
ed the reclining groom, which was furnished
with divans, and presented q most comfort
able appearance; but the heat and vaPor
We're so extremely oppressive in the region
oil the bath that We merely looked into 1t,
and gladly returned to the cool gallery. l
am not surprised that you are curious on the
subject of the bath and the Eastern manner
Of using it; and | hope TO devote future
letter to description Of the operation dor
such indeed it may be styled0 and the place
in which the operation is performed.
On our reaching the stairs, the second
daughter Of Habeeb Efendee took her sis
ter's place; and, with her arm around my
neck, We descended the stairs, and re-enter.
ed the room where ! had received so kind
a reception. When we rose to take ouI
leave, the elder daughter received my riding
dress from slave, and was about to attire
me, when her sister said, ''You took then
off, it is for me to put them on" The ell
der lady partly consented, retaining the ha
barah, and thus they dressed me together
Then, after giving me the usual salutanon
they each cordially pressed my hand, am
kissed my cheek. We then descended in
to the court, attended by the ladies, and {
crowd Of white slaves. Having crossed tn
court, we arrived at the great gate, thougl
which ! had before passed, which was onl.
, closed by large mat, suspended before II
forming the curtain of the hareem. Thl
mat was raised by black eunuchs, who pour
: ed from passage without, and immediatel
after the ladies babe us farewell, and return
: ed. followed by their slaves. The princi
/ pal eunuch assembled first the mounting pla
( form, and placed me on the donkey, Will
d two others arranged NY feet in the stirruP
II our own servants being kept in the bacl
y ground.-7He Englishpoman in Egypt.
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Arab superstiiiea.

remember poor Davidson mentioning 10
me the general belief he had found Prev,
lent amongst the Arabs in those parts Of the
Levant which travellers seldom ireouep,
that the Frank is in league with devils
witches, and unearhly beings. He told
ME that, on moe than one occasion, he had
profted by such fancies, when his life had
been in danger from the wild tribes among
whom he had venIured. Davidson was
bald, and wore at that time a tOupet A
body Of Arabs, having surrounded him, had
commenced plundering his effects, and
threatened even his life; when suddenly
Davidson, calling upon them to beware how
they provoked the Christians power, dashed
his false hair to the ground, saving, BE
hold my locks; your boards shall 20 next
The Arabs fled, abandoning heirplunder-
Hays Rarbary.
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The Women Of Cypru.

The bewitching power attributed al this cav
TO the women Of Cyprus is curious in connec-
ton with the worship Of the sweet goddess who
called their isle her own; the L ypriOte IS not,
think, nearly 50 beautiful in face as the Ionisn
queens Of lznlir, but she is tall and slightly
formed--there is high-souIed meaning and eI-
Pression-a seeming consciousness Of gentle
empire that speaks in the wavy lines Of the
shoulder, and winds itself like Cytherea's eva
cestus around the slender waist--then the rich-
ly Astounding hair mot enyiOusly gathered TO-
gether under the head-dress) descends the neck
and passes tie waist in sumPtuous braids; Of all
other women with Grecian blood in their veins
the costume is graciOusly beautiful, but these
the maidens of Limesol-their robes are more
gentle, more swee;ly imagined, and fall IN soft,
luxurious folds.-EofheR.
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Ascent Of the Pyramids.

Ii was nothing but Joking and laughter,
bullying Of guides, shouting for Interpreters,
quarrelling about six pences. We were act
ing a farce, with the Pyramids for the scene.
There they rose up enormous under our
eyes, and the most absurd, trivial things
were going on under their shadow. The
sublime had disappeared, vast as they were.
Do you remembes how CULVER .osl his
awe of the tremendous Brogdignag ladies
Every traveller must go through all sorts OF
chaffering, and bargaining, and paltry ex-
periences, at this spot. You look up the
tremendous steps, with score Of savage
rufiians believing round you you hear faint
cheers and cries high up, and catch sight Of
little reptiles crawling upwards; or, having
achieved the summit, they come hopping
and bouncing down again from degree to
degree-the cheers and cries swell louder
and more diSagreeable; presently the little
jumping thing, no bigger than an insect a
moment ago, bOunces down upon you ex-
banded into a painting major Of Bengal
cavalry. He drives off the Arabs with an
oath-wipes his red, shining face, with his
yellow handkerchief, drops putting on the
sand in shady corner, where cold fowl
and hard eggs are awaiting him, and the
next minute you see his nose plunged in a
foaming beaker Of brandy and soda-water.
He can say now and for ever, he has been
up the Pyramid. There is nothing sublime
in it. You cast your eye once more up that
staggering perspective Of a zigzag line,
which ends al the summit, and wish you
were up there-and down again For
wards up with you! 1t must be done.
Six Arabs are behind you. who won't let
you escape if you would.-7hackeray's
Journey from COrnhiu 10 Cairo.
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acknowledgements

Magnificent words, and the pomp and
procession Of stately sentences, may accom-
pany genius, but are not always, nor fire.
quently, called out by it, The voice ought
not to be PerPetually, nor much elevated in
the ethic and didactic, nor to roll sonorous
ly, as if it issued from a mask in the thea
tire. The horses in the plain under Troy
are not always kicking and neighing; nor
is the dust always raised in whirlwinds on
the banks Of Simois and Scamander; nor
are the rampires always in a blaze. Hec-
tor has lowered his helmet TO the infant OF
Andromache, and Achilles to the embraces
of Briseis. do not blame the prose-wri-
ter who opens his bosom occasionally to a
breath Of poetry; neither, on the contrary,
can | praise the gait Of that pedestrian who
lifts up his legs as high on bare heath as
in a corn6eld.-Walter Sarage Lander.
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The QuaIisues OF asepia,.w,

| delight in the assertion that ",here is
nothing so reasonable as religion Assn
redly there is nothing so protective; for the
feeble being whose reliance it is "gathers a
force and faith under him, which nature OF
itself could never attain''t There is moth
ing 80 consolatory, for at creates new hopes
when all earthly hopes fail.'t There is
nothing so ennobling, for the ceaseless en-
ployment of the religiousm man is the "fitting
up his mind, and preparing it for glorious
abode And. in reference to an effect
seldom insisted on, ''you may depend on it
religion is in its essence the most gentle
manly thing in the world; it will alone gen.
dlize, if unmixed with cant, and know
nothing else that will alone. "s-C Colleagues
on Poetry and Poets.
lord Bacon. ibid. .Sir Humphry Davy.
NGoldsmith. SColeridge.
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The Power Of Aiudue.s.

Sell-abandonment is the misery nearest
TO sell-murder. Our nature must be selfish
until taught by sympathy the loneliness and
Delights OF generous affections, and these we
must witness in others before We can feel to
The full in ourselves. Why then should we
wonder 10 see children Of the shrewdest in
tellecl and most susceptible forms, beautiful
even in depravity, the readiest and deepest
IN guilt when left only to the sympa.hies OF
incarnate demons! Men and women, faith
ers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
your hearts are demanded by the outcast
and the Abandoned And if you feel as
you ought the necessities Of sensitive child
hood and youth, not merely in your homes
and among yourselves, but in vile places,
where the messengers Of heaven should visit,
much Of the now prevalent deprsvity Of the
social system would be cured, more would
be prevented, and many determined, man.
y heart, many sweetly feminine bosom,
would be opened, and governed by the in
spring truths which Jesus taught IL you
would be mighty be kind. Why IS kind
ness full Of poweri Because it is happy,
and makes happy. 1t assures US that We
are not alone; 1t lakes possession of the body
with all its springs Of nervous energy, heals
the wounds Of the spirit, and thereby impart.
new vigor and warmth to the current oflife
1t teammates innocent dead hopes, anc
draws US from selfish purpose to high kind
OF sell-abandonment, by causing us TO prefer
the disposition We see in others to what We
experience in ourselves, and puts US in fell
bodily relationship with those who are gov
emed by fine faith in the goodness of On
impotence. The beautiful old woro, kind
ness, means something like family feeling
kin, kind, kindred, kindness; the home spiri
is in it, and brings back to our memory tht
mothers heart, and the infants trustfulness
Let all the angels of heaven go out to re
claim degraded man; they will avail no
thing unless they can approach him in ia,
human form Of kindness, visibly elnbodie,
in like nature 10 his own. They must draw
him from solitude by manifest sympathy; no
that Of sorrow only, but Of fellow feeling
even TO the evidence of having also beer
tempted like himself lie can respond onl,
TO one who knows exPerimentally the VI
gent demands Of the body, and in it has fel
the struggle and the strife with Satan, sin
and death, and in il conquered them. HI
must learn by looking on an example tina
it is God and not man that triumphs owe
evil. He must know how the Father ptie
the prodigal, weary of his lusts; and CO.
Himself must meet man as man before HI
reveals His divinity by bidding men belev
in love, and sin no more. Therefore b
kind.-Dr. NOOre's Use Of the Body in re
idti6n 10 the Mind.
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Livy,

"While admired, with species Of awe
such as not Homer himself ever impressed
me with, the majesty and sanctimony of
Livy, have been informed by learned Ro-
mans that in the structure Of his sentences
he is often inhsrmonious, and sometimes un-
couth. can imagine such uncouthness in
the goddess Of battles, confident Of power
and victory, when part of her hair is waving
round the helmet, loosened by the rapidity
of her descent or the vibration Of her spear. -
Sauage Lander.
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"to'ha, my spiritual child. this head was vr.v
When at the sacred font for thee stood. ~
Pledged ill thou reached the verge Of vou,.
hood,
And shall become thy own sufficient stay.
Too late feel, sweet orphan, was the DAY
For steadfast hope the contract to fulfil
Yet shall my blessing hover Ger thee still.
Embodied in the music Of this lay
Breathed forth beside the peaceful monn,.t.
stream,
Whose murmur soothed thy languid mo,bs,,.
ear,
After her throes, Whose nsme is thine 10 h-.,-
Hanging around thee, memorial theme
For others, for thy future self spell.
To summon fancies out Of Times dark esnu,
HOrdstrorfk
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xXIL.,.

want the seals of power and place,
The ensigns Of command;
Charged by the Peoples uebought grace
To rule my native Land
Nor crown, nor sceptre. would ask,
But from my eouniry's will,
By day, by night, to ply the task
Her cup of bliss 10 hill.
XIII
want the voice Of honest praise
To follow me behind;
And TO be thought in future days
The friend Of human kind,
That after ages as thay rise,
Exulting may proclaim
In choral union 10 the skies,
Their blessing on my name.
XIV.
These are the wants of mortal man.
cannot want them long
For life itself is but span
And earthly bliss song.
Nv last great want absorbing all
Is, when beneath the sod,
And summoned 10 my final call;
The mercy Of my God
XIV.
And Oh. while circles in my veins
Oflife the purple stream;
And yet fragment small remains
OF natures transient dream;
Ny soul, in humble hope unscar'd
Forget not thou I'd pray,
That this thy want may be prepared
To meet The Judgment day.
WASHINGTON, 18th June, lSIO.
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Poetic DIcsiOn.

When we are feeling any strong passion
it instantly alters our manner Of speaking
from that which we practice on common oc.
casions. 1t clears away all that is mean
and vulgar, all that is dull and tiresome in
our language; and renders it at once spirited,
noble, and piihy. The mind being highly
excited, becomes more than usually active;
it catches with great quickness every i'm
preston given by surrounding objects; it
seizes rapidly every point in which they may
seem TO express sympathy with its own feel
ings. Hence its language is full Of images
and comparisons; it is unusually rich and
beautiful, that is, it crowds together num-
Der OF ideas in a short space, and expresses
them in the most lively manner, because its
conception of them is keen and vivid
Again, the very tone of the voice is altered,
it becomes more rapid and animated, and the
flow of our words is less broken, and more
measured and musical, than in common un.
excited conversation. This will be under.
stood in moment by Just turning to the po-
etical parts of the Bible; for instance, let any
one observe the difference between the two
first chapters Of the Book of Job, which
contain the mere story, and those which
Immediately follow them. He will find his
tone and manner Of reading, if he be reading
aloud, change instantly in going from the
second chapter to the third. POeticdl Ian
guage is, in Truth, the language of excited
feeling; and this is what was meant by say
ing that as every man has been in poeti
cal state of mind at some time or other Of
his life. so almost every man must, in some
degree, however imperfect, have expressed
himself on such occasions in poetical Ian
guage. DR.. Arnold.