HISTORIC SKETCH I. s. 



, i l.oiuiM ui.ii i ,.nU)iuttit homines niiseros, 



orporis et fortune bona, quanUcunque tuiit, 



. . rt:t it frugilio. 9. Quotquot homines nuut, omnes vitaia 



10. Quotcuuque lunt tcriptores, omnes Aristidis justitiain 



prusilicuiit. 



EXERCISE 66. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. As many men to many minds (the minds are as numerous as tho 

 men). 2. As many boys so many girls. 3. As many fathers so many 

 mothers. 4. As great as is tby grief so great i* my joy. 5. Such as 

 are parents such are children. 6. As is the shepherd BO is tho flock. 

 7. I do not despise the things, whatever they are. 8. Aristides is 

 declared just by all writers, how many soever they are. 



KEY TO EXERCISES IN LESSONS IN LATIN. XIV. 



(Vol. II., p. 64.) 

 EXERCISE 53. LATIN-ENGLISH. 



1. Every nature in preservative of itself. 2. A wonderful desire for 

 the city, for my friends, and for thee holds (possesses) me. 3. Thy 

 father is very much delighted by tby remembrance of him. 4. Anger has 

 no power over itself. 5. A wise man has always power over himself. 

 6. Care for you makes mo uneasy. 7. All men are kind judges of 

 themselves. 8. Thy recollection of us is exceedingly pleasant to me. 



9. The friend is mindful of me and of thee. 10. (Our) father in his 

 absence is held by a great longing after me, and after you, my brother, 

 and after you, O sisters. 11. (Our) friends are mindful of us. 12. 

 Many of you please me. 13. Very many of us greatly love thee. 



EXERCISE 54. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. Insipiens est impotens sui. 2. Pater est potens sui. 3. Potens 

 sui est virtus. 4. Non est vitium potens sui. 5. Potensne sui est 

 ira ? 6. Natura sui ost conservatriz. 7. Natura virtutis est conserva- 

 trix sui. 8. Nemo vestrum sui potens est. 9. Nostrum plurimi sui 

 sunt potentes. 10. Immemor mei est infidus amicus. 11. Fidi amici 

 non sui sunt memoree. 12. Tua memoriaet desiderium mei mihi sunt 

 gratissima, 13. Cura tui me angit. 14. Plurimi vestrum, O discipuli, 

 diligeutes sunt. 15. Minis est amor sui. 



EXBRCISE 55. LATIN-ENGLISH. 



1. Sallust is a very elegant writer. 2. His books I gladly read (I 

 am glad to read). 3. I have a faithful friend. 4. I am very much 

 attached to him. 5. The song of (thy) brother pleases me much, thou 

 ougbtest to read it. 6. Idleness makes the body grow heavy, labour 

 strengthens (it) . 7. Avoid that, seek this. 8. This letter moves me very 

 much. 9. These songs are very sweet. 10. I do not believe that 

 false man. 11. The soldiers gladly obey that general. 12. All favour 

 that man. 13. That precept of thine is excellent. 14. This opinion 

 pleases me, that displeases me. 15. This war is very cruel. 16. This 

 boy is industrious, that (one) sluggish. 17. I keep in memory that 

 excellent precept. 18. That friend of thine is a very good man. 19. 

 That authority of yours is very great. 20. I praise the diligence of 

 that scholar, I blame the slowness of this (one) . 21. To that (one) school 

 is very pleasant, to this (one) very troublesome. 



EXERCISE 56. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. Sallustius est scriptor elegans, Livius elegantior, et Cicero clc- 

 gantissimus. 2. Eorum libros libeuter lego. 3. Ejus f rater et amicus 

 mihi sunt can. 4. Fidum amicum babes et ei es a-Jdictissimus. 5. 

 Filii mei habent fidos uxores et cos viildo omant. 6. Vehementer his 

 11 tens movcor. 7. Mendoci mulieri non credas. 8. Hie puer mihi 

 placet, illo displicet. 9. Hoc poema valde est elegans, illud elegantius. 



10. Hie tuus miles fortis est. 11. Hujus discipuli diligentia a me 

 pncceptoro laudutur. 12. In hac schola plures quam in vestra sunt 

 industrii discipuli. 



EXERCISE 57. LATIN-ENGLISH. 



1. Many men do not think the same on the same things (subjects) 

 for the samo day. 2. The fool now trusts, now distrusts the same 

 opinion. 3. Seditious soldiers withstand the commander himself. 4. 

 The mind moves itself. 5. Virtue is praiseworthy on its own account. 

 6. Often nothing is more hostile to a man than he is to himself. 7. 

 Every animal loves itself. 8. Our country ought to be dearer to us 

 than wo ourselves. 9. That precept of the Delphic oracle is excellent 

 Know thyself. 



EXERCISE 58. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. Hostes urbem obsident et earn expugnare tentant. 2. Hujus 

 magni hominis factum ab omnibus scriptoribus laudatur. 3. Cesar 

 et Pompeius prseclari duces Bomani sunt. 4. Eli fortuna amicior est 

 quam huic. 5. Illius et hujus fortitude mira est. 6. Rex ipse exer- 

 citiis est dux. 7. Non semper efidem de iisdem rebus sentis. 8. Pater 

 et fllius iisdem literis student. 9. Virtutes per se amabiles sunt. 10. 

 Omnes se ipsos diligunt. 11. Patria tibi carior esse debet quam tute 

 tibi. 12. Noscite vos ipsos, juvenes. 13. Mendax swpe sibi ipsi 

 diifidit. 



HISTORIC SKI. I- HER XV I. 



THE BLOODY ASSIZE. 



THERE arc some historical event* of which we gladly cherish 

 the memory, because of the lustre they spread around oar 

 national character, or because of the intrinsic worth of the 

 events themselves. Bach are the great victories of the nation, 

 abroad and at homo, the enforcers of oar foreign and colonial 

 policy against external foes, the winners of step* onward in tin- 

 path of constitutional freedom, in opposition to the tactics of 

 absolutists and tyrants. Other events there are over which we 

 would gladly draw a veil, if it were permitted us to do so events 

 so sad and disgraceful, not only to our national character, bat 

 to humanity itself , that we would fain not look at them. But 

 we cannot afford to lose sight of them, much as the contem- 

 plation may disgust us ; we are bound in our own interests, and 

 in the interests of those who are to come after us, not to " let 

 oblivion damn" the record in which these ugly histories are 

 written. There is, seemii gly, a natural tendency in politics to 

 repeat themselves, and in principles to re- assert themselves ; and 

 if, according to this rule, we may look for a re-appearance of 

 past glories, so we must look also for a fresh advent of past 

 evils. They may not come in the same shape indeed, tho 

 chances are strongly against their doing so but come they 

 will, and it behoves UH to watch very diligently against the evils 

 lest they take us by surprise, and furnish for posterity a chapter 

 of horrors, a counterpart of those old chapters which we are 

 bound freshly to remember. To use the emphatic language of 

 Lord Erskine, with reference to some irregular proceedings in 

 the law courts, presided over by the subject of this sketch 

 (Judge Jeffreys), which were taken off the file and burnt, " to 

 the intent that the same might no longer be risible to after 

 ages :" " It was a sin against posterity ; it was a treason 

 against society ; for instead of being burnt, they should have 

 been directed to be blazoned in large letters upon the walls of 

 our courts of justice, that, like the characters deciphered by the 

 prophet of God to the Eastern tyrant, they might enlarge and 

 blacken in your sight to terrify you from acts of injustice." 



It is a sketch of one of those subjects which, for the above 

 reason, should never be forgotten, that it is proposed now to 

 bring under the notice of our readers. 



The Duke of Monmonth, the illegitimate son of Charles II. 

 and Lucy Waters, having been engaged in many intrigues to 

 procure his own elevation to the throne instead of the Duke of 

 York (James II.), had got into trouble during his father's life- 

 time ; but when Charles died in 1685, and his brother, James II., 

 succeeded him, the Duke of Monmonth renewed his intrigues 

 more energetically, and succeeded in fastening to his cause a. 

 very considerable following. There were said to exist proofs of 

 Charles II. having been married to Lucy Waters; and though 

 they did not actually exist, many believed they did, and on that 

 ground alone, apart from their dislike to James, regarded Liin :i* 

 their lawful king. Finding his party, as he fancied, sufficiently 

 strong, he determined, in the spring of 1685, a few weeks after 

 the king's accession, to try his hand at an invasion. With a 

 slender force he landed on the llth of June, at Lyme, in Dorset- 

 shire, where many of the country people joined him. Shortly 

 afterwards he proclaimed himself king, denounced James as a 

 usurper, and all his adherents as traitors. In a lengthy decla- 

 ration Monmouth asserted the reasons why James ought to be 

 deposed, and stated the measures which he intended to intro- 

 duce if tho people would put him in possession of the throne. 



Four days after landing he left Lyme at the head of over 

 3,000 men, raw levies for the most part, badly officered, and 

 without the countenance or help of any of the country gentlemen. 

 At Tannton, where the Duke was received with open arms, some 

 addition was made to the number, but hardly to the quality of 

 his army. At Bridport, where a detachment of his men first 

 came in contact with the royal forces, he experienced a check, 

 and nowhere did he gain anything by force of arms. Wells, 

 Bridgewater, and Exeter received him ; but Bath and Bristol 

 shut their gates on him, and refused him supplies. At Sedge- 

 moor, about five miles to the sooth-east of Bridgewator, in 

 Somersetshire, he was compelled to fight on the 6th of July, by 

 the king's general, Lord Feversham ; and after a combat of some 

 hours' duration, in which the royal troops lost about 300 men, 

 and the rebels 800, besides three times that number of prisoner*, 

 i he waa completely defeated. The Duke, with two companions, 



