LESSONS IN ENGLISH. 



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" The subject of th J present cbaptor will be the offunco of homicide, 



: its Muvurul Btugei u( (,'iiilt, nn 



aggnivutiiiu which utU-ud 



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in ita corresponding Saxon term, man- 



i, ill-notes the general act of man-killing, leaving it to bo 



i \viu-thi -r the killing was or was not murder, that is, pro- 



ted Lillin^. Unpremeditated man-killing is generally 



trruiril iii.in.-luu^hter, as contradistinguished from murder. It 



nt imi, that not one of these words, homicide, man- 



.. in-killing, murder (Ger. mord, murder; Fr. mort, 



and Lat. mort, death), convoys in itself the idea of 



malice aforethought." 



<d is a scientific word, and, like most of our scientific 



may have come to us from the Greek ; for the Greek 



the root of the Latin ciim>, and is similar to it in import. 



A .liniavl lecture is a discourse on a disease, delivered by the 



1. l--i.l oof the patient. A clinical convert is one that is con- 



>n hia death-bed. In the early history of the churches, 



those were called clinici or clinical, who, wishing to have all 



llii-ir sins washed away at once, postponed baptism till their 



tl.viiu,' hour. See Gibson's remarks on the delay of baptism by 



Constantino, miscalled the Great. 



" Horror stalks around 

 Wild staring, and his sad concomitant 

 Despair, of abject look." Philip. 



" I persuaded her to take, as hot as she could well drink it, every 

 morning, a full draught of tlie decoction of centaury boiled in beer or 

 ale." Bayle. 



Cordial, of Latin origin, has a corresponding word from the 

 Saxon, that is, lit'arty. This is by no means a solitary case, as 

 will appear from the ensuing list : 



Latin. 

 Timid 

 Velocity 

 Effeminate 

 Edifice 

 Paucity 



Saxon, 

 fearful, 

 swiftness, 

 womanish, 

 building, 

 fewness. 



.Latin. 

 Altitude 

 Annual 

 Aqueous 

 Auditor 



Sowm. 

 height, 

 yearly, 

 watery, 

 hearer. 



In incorporate, animadvert, and other words, the student is 

 expected to make use of the information which ho has already 

 had supplied to him regarding prepositions in combination, as 

 well as regarding prefixes and suffixes. 



" Cremation, burning, is applied particularly to the ancient custom 

 of destroying corpses by fire. The Chinois, without cremation or urnal 

 interment of their bodies, make use of trees and much burning, while 

 they plant a pine-tree by their grave." Brown, " Urn Burial." 



Capillary signifies that which is like hair ; hence it is applied 

 to the small vessels of the body, as the ramifications (branches) 

 of the arteries, " the capillaries ; " also to tubes ; and attraction 

 in tubes as fine as hair, is called " capillary attraction." 



" A strict and succinct style is that where you can take away nothing 

 without losse, and that losse to be manifest." Ben Jonson. 



" To translate him line for line is impossible, because the Latin is 

 naturally a more succinct language than either the Italian, Spanish, 

 French, or even the English ; which by reason of its monosyllables, is 

 far the most compendious of them." Dryden. 



The idea in succinct, girded, is taken from the custom prevalent 

 among the ancient Greeks and Romans of gathering up and 

 binding around the waist their long flowing robes, when they 

 were about to apply to any manual occupation. Compare 

 Jsa. viiL 9 ; John xiii. 4, 5. 



EXERCISES IN COMPOSITION. 

 Words with their proper Prepositions to be formed into sentences. 



WORDS. FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES. 



Clear of, clarus, bright, distinct. 



Coalesce with, coalesce, i grow together. 



Coincide with, cum, in, cado, I fall in icifTi. 



Commune with, communis, common. 



Commit to, cum, mitto, I send with. 



Communicate to, communico, I communicate. 



Compare to (in respect to) 



quality), 

 Compare with (by way off com P ar . T compare, match. 



illustration), ) 



EXERCISE IN PARSING. 



Some have termed the " Song of Solomon, or the Canticles," a 

 Hebrew Epithalamiuin. Tha rage for autographs seems to have in a 



measure subtided. Tha autograph* of the writers of the New Testa- 

 ment are not known to exist. The word apology sometime* signifac 

 defence rather than excute. The former is the older moaning of the 

 term. The monuments of Egypt are covered with hieroglyphics. 

 The hieroglyphics of Egypt have for the most part been at bnurtb 

 deciphered. Exodus is the name borne by the second book in the 

 Bible. This name was given to the book because it recounts the 

 departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 



To endeavour to improve yourself in composition, report the 

 following anecdote, as before, to a child or to s claM of 

 children : 



ESCAPE OF THE DUKE OF ALBANY. 



Kin? James III. of Scotland, after his marriage with Margaret 

 Priucess of Denmark, having disgusted his proud nobility by patro- 

 nising and receiving into favour many persons of inferior rank, deep 

 and dangerous intrigues wore formed against him. By these miuious 

 and upstart couusellors be was speedily made aware that his broth-- 

 Alexander, Duke of Albany, and John, Earl of Mar were forming 

 conspiracies against him, and that the former aimed at nothing less 

 thau wresting 'the sceptre from his hand a fact which bos since been 

 proved by authentic documents. In 1482, Albany was committed to 

 the Costlo of Edinburgh, where he was kept a close prisoner by those 

 who knew that his accession to power would assuredly be their 

 destruction. He had not been long in durance until be formed and 

 matured a plan of escape, which, with desperate courage, he executed 

 in the following manner. Terrified by the mysterious fate of Mar, 

 and aware that his day of trial was approaching, some of Albany's 

 numerous friends iu France or Scotland contrived means to acquaint 

 him that a small vessel, laden with Gascon wine, lay in the roadstead of 

 Lcith, by which he might escape if he made an effort. The tower in 

 which ho was confined was probably Datiid'a, for we are informed that 

 it " arose from the northern verge of the rock on which the castle is 

 founded, where the height of the precipice seemed to bar all possi- 

 bility of escape." He had but one attendant (styled his chamber- 

 chield) left to wait upon him, and to this trusty follower alone he 

 revealed his intention. From the French vessel he received two small 

 runlets or barrels of wine, which luckily the castle-guard permitted to 

 be carried into his apartment untosted and unexamined. On opening 

 them in private the duke found that they contained Malvoisie, and, 

 what was of more importance, a strong rope and a waxen roll inclosing 

 an anonymous letter, urging him to lose no time in attempting to 

 escape, as the king's millions had determined he should die ere the 

 momnc's sunset ; and the billet ended by an assurance that the boats 

 of the French vessel should await him at the shore of Leith. The 

 first point to be gained woe to lull the suspicious of the captain of the 

 guard, for which purpose the duke invited him to supper, and by 

 pressing him and three of his soldiers to drink freely of the Malvoisie, 

 succeeded in partially intoxicating them. After gaming and drink- 

 ing until the hour grew late, Albany found the moment for action had 

 come. Bushing upon the captain he snatched a long dagger from his 

 baldrick, and buried it repeatedly in his breast ; then, quick as thought, 

 he dispatched the intoxicated soldiers iii the same manner, and, in 

 token of his hostility and contempt (with the assistance of his 

 chamber-chield), he savagely threw the bodies on the great fire that 

 blazed in the stone fire-place of the tower ; and there in their armour 

 they broiled and sweltered like tortoises in iron shells. Having 

 secured the keys of the doors, they locked them as they retired, and 

 stealthily hurried to the wall, which they prepared to descend at the 

 most retired part. The chamber-chield lowered himself first over the 

 beetling crag, which is two hundred feet in height, but the cord 

 proving too short, it slipped suddenly through his hands, he fell to 

 the bottom, and there lay senseless. We may imagine how the heart 

 of the blood-stained Albany must have beat at this terrible crisis! 

 Every moment was fraught with danger, and his death or life were 

 hanging by a hair. Bushing back to his apartment in the tower, he 

 tore the sheets from his bed, twisted them into a rope, lengthened 

 the cord, looped it around an embrasure, and, lowering himself over 

 the rampart, and the rugged rocks it overlooked, reached the bottom 

 in safetj'. There he found his attendant stretched on the ground, 

 with his thigh-bone broken. Unwilling to leave behind him, to the 

 mercy of his enemies, one who had been so faithful, Albany, with a 

 sentiment of gratitude which seems almost incompatible with his pre- 

 vious ferocity, lifted him on his shoulders, and, being a man of gigantic 

 stature and uncommon strength, carried him thus with ease to Leith, 

 where they embarked without delay ; and setting sail before the 

 rising sun brightened the German sea, cast anchor under the towers 

 of Duiibar, the patrimonial castle of Albany. During the whole 

 night nothing was known of his escape; but daylight revealed the 

 rope nii'l twisted sheets hanging over the northern ramparts ; there 

 was immediately given un alarm, which the dreadful stench in !).>-. i.l's 

 tower must have increased. His flight was discovered, and the half- 

 consumed corpses were found in the fire-place of his chamber. 

 Enraged and confounded, James III. refused to credit the intelli- 

 gence until ho had examined the place in person. Memorials of tin 

 Castle of Edinburgh, pp. 52-55. 



