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pillaged ? what region drained with taxes t whoM life hare I unjustly 

 token, or estate* ooreted or robbed ? whose honour have I wantonly 

 assailed P whose rights, though of the weakest and poorest, hare I 

 1 uj.i.ii y 1 .'.V..-11, whore I would ever dwell, in the hearts of 

 my people. It in written in your faces, that I reign not more over you 

 than within you. Thu foundation of my throne is not more power 

 than lore. 



How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps 



The disembodied spirits of the dead, 

 When all of tlieo that time could wither, sleeps, 



And parishes among the dust we tread P 



For I shall feel the stiug of ceaseless pain, 



If there I meet thy gentle presence not ; 

 Nor heur the- voice I love, nor read again 



In thy serenest eyes the tender thought. 



Will not thy own meek heart demand me there ? 



That heart whose fondest throbs to me were given ? 

 My name on earth was ever in thy prayer, 



Shall it be banished from thy tongue in heaven ? 



In meadows fanned by heaven's life-breathing wind, 

 In the resplendence of that glorious sphere, 



And larger movements of the unfettered mind, 

 Wilt thou forget the love that joined us here ? 



The love that lived through all the stormy past, 

 And meekly with iny harsher nature bore, 



And deeper grew, and tenderer to the lost, 

 Shall it expire with life, and be no more ? 



A happier lot than mine, and larger light, 



Await thee there ; for thou hast bowed thy will 



In cheerful homage to the rule of right, 

 And lovedst all, and renderest good for ill. 



For me, the sordid cares in which I dwell, 



Shrink and consume the heart, as heat the scroll; 



And wrath has left its scar, the fire of hell 

 Has left its frightful scar upon my soul. 



Yet, though thou wear'st the glory of the sky, 

 Wilt thou not keep the same beloved name, 



The same fair thoughtful brow, and gentle eye, 

 Lovelier in heaven's sweet climate, yet the same ? 



Shalt thou not teach me, in that calmer home, 

 The wisdom that I learned so ill in this, 



The wisdom which is love, till I become 

 Thy fit companicu in that land of bliss ? 



Both Inflections, in connection. 

 Eulc 1. " Negation opposed to affirmation." 



It is not a parchment of pedigree, it is not a name derived from 

 the ashes of dead men, that make the only charter of a king. English- 

 men were but slaves, if, in giving crown and sceptre to a mortal like 

 ourselves, we ask not, in return, the kingly virtues. 



The true enjoyments of a reasonable being do not consist in 

 unbounded indulgence,* or luxurious ease, in the tumult of passions, 

 the langour of indolence, or the flutter of light amiisements. Yielding 

 to immoral pleasures corrupts the mind ; living to animal and trifling 

 ones, debases it ; both, in their degree, disqualify it for genuine good, 

 and consign it over to wretchedness. 



What constitutes a state ? 



Not high-raised battlements, or laboured mound, 

 Thick wall, or moated gate ; 



Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, 

 Not bays and broad-armed ports, 



Where, laughing at tho storm, proud navies ride ; 

 Not starred and spangled courts, 



Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! 

 No ! men, high-minded HEN, 

 Hen who their duties know, 



But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. 



Note. " Concession and unequal antithesis." 



The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's path ; but he 

 can look up with filial trust to the guardian care of a beneficent Father. 



I admit that the Greeks excelled in acnteness the versatility of 

 mind. But in the firm and manly traits of the Roman character, I 

 see something more noble, more worthy of admiration. 



We war against the leaders of evil not against the helpless t<5ols : 

 we war against our opprcssers, not against our misguided brethren. 



* The penultimate inflection falls, when a sentence ends with the 

 rising slide. 



Still, still, for ever 



Better, though each man's life-blood were a river. 

 That it should flow, and overflow, than creep 

 Through thousand lazy channels in oar rein*, 

 Dammed, like tho dull canal, with locks tad fMfnt^ 

 And moving, as a sick man in his sleep. 

 Three paces, and then f alto ring ; better be 

 Where the extinguished Spartans still are free, 

 In their proud charnel of ThermopyhB, 

 Than stagnant in our marsh. 



Exception. " Emphatic negation." 



Ill keep them all ; 

 He shall not have a Scot of them ; 

 No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not. 



Do not descend to your graves with the disgraceful centure, that 

 yon suffered the liberties of your country to be taken away, and that 

 yon were mutes as well as cowards. Come forward, like men ; protect 

 against this atrocious attempt. 



I am not sounding the trumpet of war. There is no man who more 

 sincerely deprecates its calamities than I do. 



Best assured that, in any cose, we shall not be willing to rank list 

 in this generous contest. You may depend on us for whatever heart 

 or hand can do, in so noble a cause. 



I will cheerfully concede every reasonable demand, for the sake of 

 peace. But I will not submit to dictation. 



Rule 2. " Question and answer." 



Do you think these yells of hostility will be forgotten ? Do you 

 suppose their echo will not reach the plains of my injured and insulted 

 country, that they will not be whispered in her green valleys, and 

 heard from her lofty hills ? Oh 1 they u UJ be heard there ; yes, and 

 they will not be forgotten. 



I will say, what have any classes of you, in Ireland, to hope from 

 the French ? Is it your property you wish to preserve ? Look to the 

 example of Holland ; and see how that nation has preserved its property 

 by an alliance with the French ! Is it independence yon court ? 

 Look to the example of unhappy Switzerland : see to what a state of 

 servile abasement that once manly territory has fallen, under France ! 

 Is it to the establishment of Catholicity that your hopes are directed ? 

 The conduct of the First Consul, in subverting the power aud autho- 

 rity of the Pope, and cultivating the friendship of the Mussulman tu 

 Egypt, under a boast of that subversion, proves the fallacy of such a 

 reliance. Is it civil liberty you require ? Look to France itet'-lf, 

 crouching under despotism, and groaning beneath a system of shivery, 

 unparalleled by whatever has disgraced or insulted, any nation. 



Shall I be left forgotten, in the dust, 



When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive ? 



Shall Nature's voice, to man alone unjust, 



Bid him. though doomed to perish, hope to live t 



Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive 

 With disappointment, penury, and pain ? 



No : Heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive, 



And man's majestic beauty bloom again, 

 Bright through the eternal year of Love's triumphant reign. 



Rule 3. " Disjunctive ' Or.' " 



Will you rise like men, and firmly assert your rights, or will you 

 tamely submit to be trampled on ? 



Did the Romans, in their boasted introduction of civilisation, act 

 from a principle of humane interest in the welfare of the world ? Or 

 did they not rather proceed on the greedy and selfish policy of aggran- 

 dising their own nation, and extending its dominion ? 



Do virtuous habits, a high standard of morality, proficiency in the 

 arts and embellishments of life, depend upon physical formation, or 

 the latitude in which wo ore placed ? Do they not depeud upon the 

 civil and religious institutions which distinguish the country ? 



The remaining rules on " inflection," as they are of less 

 frequent application, are thought to bo sufficiently illustrated 

 by the examples appended to each rule. A repetition of these, 

 however, may be useful to tho student as an exercise in review. 



LESSONS IN MUSIC. VIII. 



MENTAL EFFECT OF NOTES. 



WK have now to treat of a most important subject, and one 

 which should be thoroughly well understood by every pupil. 

 We refer to the mental effect of notes. Let us put the topic in 

 the form of a question. What is the principal source of a note's 

 power to affect the mind P We observe, for instance, in one of 

 Handel's songs, that a certain note produces a certain effect 

 upon our minds. Why does it produce that effect ? Is there 



