severed the unnatural tie which bound her to a ruined and tyrannous kingdom; and forth from the fiery loom of battle there floats a golden thread which points northward toward the magnetism of freedom, and waits but the shuttle of time and the orders of the master-workman to be woven into our own broad vestments of liberty. (22) An ax is laid at the root of our fisheries.

(23) This ship is the seed of a fleet which will, by and by, leave to New Bedford nothing of the magnificent vexation of distant seas in pursuit of the whale, save its realized wealth and its traditions.

(24) As the orator warmed with his theme, his voice resounded like the roar of Niagara.

(25) The next rock on which men split is the whirlpool of intemperance.

(26) All went merrily until suddenly the hand of Death stepped in. (27) The day is done, and the darkness

Falls from the wing of night,

As a feather is wafted downward

From an eagle in his flight.

(28) Jonas, my son, you are entering upon your life; before you the doors of the future open wide, and, like a young squirrel escaping from his cage, you go forth to navigate the sea of life upon your own wings.

(29) Matters are drifting that way rapidly enough when all the moral brakes possible are applied.

(30) I am thankful for the iconoclastic spades which are rooting up old saws that have become stripped of all significance, like Cleopatra's Needle, by being removed from their natural surroundings. (31) To many life is a mist of confusion.

(32)

Like warp and woof all destinies

Are woven fast,

Linked in sympathy like the keys

Of an organ vast.

Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
Break but one

Of a thousand keys, and a paining jar

Through all will run.

(33) Fancy sports on airy wing, like a meteor on the bosom of a summer cloud.

(34) The grand and sympathetic words of Queen Victoria, which flashed on the wings of electricity over the Atlantic cable, and hovered like a guardian angel over the bed of the dying President

Garfield, were words of pearls and diamonds set in the necklace of international unity and harmony, hung around the neck of the Goddess of Liberty.

(35) Opposite in the blue vault stood the moon like a silver shield, raining her bright arrows on the sea.

(36) These institutions attract to themselves the mental strength of the land, forming a focus from which radiates, whether in Theology, Science, Literature, or Art, the new world of thought, which finds its way to the remotest regions, often filtered and unacknowledged.

(37) Pilot us through the wilderness of life, lest we make shipwreck of our lives.

(38) Even these ancient pillars of the church were pursued with a charge of heresy.

(39) Are the fruits of our present labors to be but the steppingstone into the future?

(40) Our prayers and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well. While one ascends, the other descends.

(41) Those whose minds are dull and heavy do not easily penetrate into the folds and intricacies of an affair, and therefore can only skim off what they find at the top.

(42) The last spark of life is ebbing.

(43) This world with all its trials is the furnace through which the soul must pass and be devoloped before it is ripe for the next world. (44) Yet some unselfish hearts are ready to step forward and pluck the thoughtless and erring, like brands, from the abyss of life. (45) There was still, Cæsar apprehended, a germ of sentiment existing, on which a scion of his own house, or even a stranger, might throw himself and raise the standard of patrician independence. (46) Walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore

Of that vast ocean it must sail so soon;

And put good works on board; and wait the wind
That shortly blows us into worlds unknown.

(47) We thank thee, Lord, for this spark of grace; and we ask thee to water it.

(48) In the ferment of political revolutions, the dregs of society are sure to rise to the surface, and once there assume the reins of power with bold and unscrupulous hand.

(49) Since the vessel of thy unbounded ambition hath been wrecked in the gulf of thy self-love, it would be proper that thou shouldst take in the sails of thy temerity, and cast the anchor of re

pentance in the port of sincerity and justice, which is the port of safety; lest the tempest of our vengeance make thee perish in the sea of the punishment thou deservest.

(50) Hope, the balm of life, darts a ray of light through the

thickest gloom.

(51) Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat, I see him floating in the air; but mark me, sir, I will nip him in the bud.

(52)

O! somewhere, meek, unconscious dove,

That sittest, 'ranging golden hair.

(53) May the word which has been preached be like a nail driven in a sure place, sending its roots downward and its branches upward, spreading itself like a green bay-tree, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners!

(54) He alone can manage the storm-tossed ship of state on its march.

(55) Candor is a delicate flower; so delicate that it may be withered merely by a laugh and its beauty can never be renewed.

SECTION V.

VARIATION OF EXPRESSION.

(1) Insert the proper words in the following sentences, selecting from the synonyms given, and keeping in mind the remarks on pages 94, 95.

I.

Allure, tempt, seduce, entice, decoy.

(1) In our time the poor are strongly

to assume the appear

ance of wealth.

(2) I have heard of barbarians, who, when tempests drive ships to their coasts, them to the rocks, that they may plunder

their lading.

(3) There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily

as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

(4) The rats and mice by which Hamelin was infested were

it is said, by a piper to a contiguous river in which they were all drowned.

(5) There was a particular grove which was called "the labyrinth to the chase, but few re

of coquettes," where many were

turned with purchase.

II.

(1)

(2)

Heap, pile, accumulate, amass.

This would I celebrate with annual games,
With gifts on altars
and holy flames.
Within the circles, arms and tripods lie,
Ingots of gold and silver

on high.

(3) Sir Francis Bacon, by an extraordinary force of nature, compass of thought, and indefatigable study, had

to himself such stores of knowledge as we cannot look upon without amazement. (4) In these odes glittering but graceful ornaments have been

III.

Excessive, immoderate, intemperate.

(1) Let no wantonness of youthful spirits, no compliance with the

- mirth of others, ever betray you into profane sallies. (2) Who knows not the languor that attends every

gence in pleasure?

(3) With them it rises to

indul

expectations founded on their

supposed talents and imagined merits.

IV.

Poverty, Indigence, want, need, penury.

(1) That the

of the Highlanders is gradually diminished

cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjec

tion.

(2)

is a bitter and a hateful good,

Because its virtues are not understood;
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been by

to full perfection brought.

Then treason makes me with myself a beggar;
And so I am; then crushing

Persuades me, I was better than a king.

(4) If we can but raise him above

a moderate share of for

tune and merit will be sufficient to open his way to whatever else we can wish him to obtain.

V.

Peace, quiet, calm, tranquillity.

(1) A paltry tale-bearer will discompose the family.

of a whole

(2) Cheerfulness banishes all anxious care and discontent, soothes and composes the passions, and keeps the soul in a perpetual

(3) By a patient acquiescence under painful events for the present, we shall be sure to contract a

of temper.

(4) A false person ought to be looked upon as a public enemy, and a disturber of the of mankind.

(2) Supstitute other words for the italicized words in the following sentences:

(1) All the little powers, envious and unfriendly, would have to keep standing armies, great in proportion to the resources for sustaining them, and the consequent taxes would impoverish the people to the point of hopeless and everlasting ruin.

(2) His love of outward nature had the power and pervasiveness of a passion; his observation of its most trifling beauties was exceedingly fine; and his delineations, both of landscapes and figures, were so clearly sketched as to impress them on the mind almost as indelibly and deeply as the perception of them could have done.

(3) This, then, is the stage on which the mind of America is to appear, and such the impulses to its exertion; such the body to be moved by its forces, such the multitude to behold its attempts, such the honor to crown its success.

(4) They beseech us, by the protracted struggles of striving humanity; by the blessed recollections of the departed; by the holy pledges, which have been given by spotless hands, to the sacred cause of truth and man; by the dreadful mysteries of the prison houses, where the