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Thus Switzerland again was free:
Thus death made way for Liberty!

PHA'LANX (or phǎl'anx).

A body | IG-NO'BLE. Dishonorable; base. 4 IN-SURGENT. Rebellious.

of troops or men in close array. • HŎR'RENT. Pointed outwards like bristles; bristling.

5 RU-MI-NÄ'TION. Musing; medita tion; reflection.

XCI.-SPEECH OF MARULLUS.

SHAKSPEARE.

[William Shakspeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in England, April 23, 1564, and died April 23, 1616. He married young, went to London soon after his marriage, became an actor, a dramatic author, and a shareholder in one of the London theatres; acquired considerable property, and retired to his native place a few years before his death, and there lived in ease and honor. He was the author of thirty-five plays, written between 1590 and 1613, besides poems and sonnets.

This extract is taken from Julius Cæsar. A citizen tells Flavius and Marullus, Tribunes of Rome, that the rabble seen in the street "make holiday to see Cæsar and to rejoice in his triumph." The following is the reply of Marullus

WHEREFORE rejoice? what conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,

To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseles hings;
O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made a universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds,
Made in her concave shores?

And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way,
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?

Be gone:

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.

1 REP-L.-CA'TION. A rolling back; re 2 IN-TER-MIT'. Cause to cease for a verberation. time; suspend; interrupt.

CXII.- ELEVATING INFLUENCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION.

WALKER.

[Rev. James Walker, D. D., a native of Burlington, Massachusetts, is a gradnate of Harvard College of the class of 1814. He was pastor of a church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, from 1818 to 1839, when he was appointed Alford Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Harvard College, which office he held till 1853, when he was elected President. He resigned this post in 1860, and has since lived in Cambridge. The following extract is from an address delivered by him before the Alumni of Harvard College, in July, 1863.]

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1. TIME would fail me to speak of the eminent men who have carried into a long life of public service the principles and the spirit inculcated' here. I cannot speak, as I would, even of him* who has so many titles to our notice on this occasion, who stands alone for his years, and for the veneration that is felt for him, chiefly known to this generation as the honored head of the university, but long before that, and long before a large proportion of this audience were born, actively and earnestly engaged in matters of state-the scholar, the statesman, and the patriot. He has lived to see the best and the worst days of the republic, and still lives, —may we not hope, in order that his last look may be on his country, redeemed and renovated by the trials through which it is now passing, and with every vestige of rebellion and bondage swept away. 2. And let no one dream that public virtue and devo

* Josiah Quincy, Senior, a graduate of the class of 1790.

tion to country are principles which are dying out in this place. We have referred to what the fathers did; let us now see what the children are doing. When the southern insurgents took up arms against the freest and best gov ernment on earth, and it became necessary to repel force by force, the recent graduates of this college, and some who had not yet graduated, were among the first to obey the call. More than four hundred and fifty of our number either now are, or have been, in the loyal service, making a larger quota3, after the proper deductions are made, than any other class of citizens has furnished.

3. It was presumed that their education would be of advantage to them, so far as thought, and skill, and per sonal influence were required; but it has been of advan tage to them in other ways. It has given a substance and body to their characters, which only needed the inspiration of a lofty purpose in order to become the foundation of the highest courage, and even of great powers of physical endurance.

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4. They went because they were called. It was not military glory, nor political ambition, nor schemes of reform which moved them, but an inflexible purpose to preserve the integrity of a great nation, and maintain the supremacy of the laws. How they have performed this duty appears from the large and constantly increasing number of those who have fallen at their posts. Our necrology for the past year reveals the remarkable fact that more than half of the deaths have occurred in the public service. It has been sorrow and desolation to many hearts and many homes; but it will make the name of Harvard dear to every patriot in the land.

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5. Alas, that so many young lives, the hope of the country, should be cut off in their early promise! But with the longest life what better, what more, could they have done? Sooner or later a monument will be erected in the

college grounds to commemorate their heroism. Do not cover it over with a glorification of our institutions, or of our people, or even with a studied eulogy on the dead: thus to have offered up their lives is glory enough. Write on it these few simple words: "In memory of the Sons of Harvard who died for their Country." And there let it stand, among the good and gracious influences of the place, the best and most gracious of them all.

6. There let it stand. While your children, and your children's children, are here preparing themselves for life, it will teach them that the pursuit of pleasure, the blandishments of society, and literary rivalships, are poor things, when compared with devotion to principle. There let it stand. If under the influence of great material prosperity, or in the hard competitions of the world, the public heart should again grow cold, and educated men forget their duty, it will still teach the same lesson. In all coming time, when the alumni of this college revisit, as we do to-day, the scenes of their early studies and friendships, the old feeling will be revived, and touched by the inspiration of a noble example, they will renew their vows to be faithful to their country and the laws.

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firm; unyielding; constant.

1 IN-CUL/CAT-ED. Taught or enforced | 5 IN-FLEX'I-BLE. That cannot be bent, by repetition; impressed on the mind by frequent admonition. REN'O VAT-ED. Restored to the first state; made new again.

6 NE-CRŎL'O-GY. A list or register

of deaths; a collection of biographical notices of deceased persons.

QUOTA. Proportional share; share 7 BLĂN'DỊSH-MĚNTS. Soft words or assigned to each; contingent.

caresses; kind treatment.

BŎD'y. Here, strength; solidity; 8 A-LUM'NĪ. Foster children; graduconsistency.

ates of a college or university.

XCIII.-PALESTINE.

WHITTIER.

[John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1808, and now resides at Amesbury, in the same State. He is a well-known and popular writer in prose and verse, especially the latter. His poetry is distinguished for its humane and generous spirit, as well as for the fidelity with which it depicts the scenery of New England and the peculiar habits of its people.]

1. BLEST land of Judea! thrice hallowed of song,

Where the holiest of memories, pilgrim-like, throng
In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea,
On the hills of thy beauty-my heart is with thee.
With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore,
Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before;
With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod
Made bright by the steps of the angels of God.

2. Blue sea of the hills! in my spirit I hear
Thy waters, Gennesaret', chime on my ear;
Where the Lowly and Just with the people sat down,
And thy spray on the dust of his sandals was thrown.
Beyond are Bethulia's mountains of green,

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And the desolate hills of the wild Gadarene 3;

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And I
pause on the goat-crags of Tabor to see
The gleam of thy waters, O dark Galilee!

3. There sleep the still rocks and the caverns which rang
To the song which the beautiful prophetess * sang,
When the princes of Issachar3 stood by her side,
And the shout of a host in its triumph replied.

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Lo! Bethlehem's hill-site before me is seen,

With the mountains around and the valleys between;
There rested the shepherds of Judah', and there
The song of the angels rose sweet on the air.

* Judges, chapter v

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