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THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Latin Nouns. Latin Adjectives. Saxon Adjectives. Saxon Nouns, 

 frater fraternal brotherly brother, 



onus, oneYis onerous burdensome burden, 



dies diurnal daily day. 



mors, mortis mortal deadly death, 



terra terrestrial earthly earth, 



pater paternal fatherly father, 



culpa culpable faulty fault, 



ignis igneous fiery fire. 



caro, camis carnal fleshly flesh. 



copillus capillary hairy hair. 



odium odious hateful hate, 



salus, salutis salutary healthy health, 



eor, cordis cordial hearty heart. 



ccelum celestial heavenly heaven, 



auxilium auxiliary helpful help, 



glocies glacial icy tee. 



rex, regia regal fcingly king, 



lex, legis legal ' lawful law. 



vita vital lively life, 



amor amorous lovely love, 



mater maternal motherly mother. 



iwx, noctis ?iocturnal nightly night, 



robur robust strong strength, 



mars, martis martial warlike war. 



agua ogueous watery water, 



voluntas voluntary willing will, 



/emina feminine womanly woman, 



sylva sylvan woody wood, 



mundus mundane worldly world, 



annus annual yearly year. 



The diverse meanings of capillary and hairy suffice to prevent 

 you from thinking that these pairs of adjectives one from the 

 Latin, one from the Saxon are in each case identical in mean- 

 ing. Frequently, however, that which is indicated by the one is 

 that which the other signifies. When the two are of the same 

 import, the one may be used for the other. To which of the 

 two you should give the preference depends on circumstances. 

 If you are addressing the people, you will do well to employ 

 words of Saxon origin. Nor fancy that by so doing you lower 

 your stylo. Simplicityin diction, like simplicity in dress, betokens 

 real respectability. Write, because you have something to say ; 

 and if you have nothing to say, do not write ; and if you write, 

 write so as to be understood by those for whom you write ; the 

 best style is that which is most readily understood. 



COMPOSITION AND PARSING. 

 Make short sentences out of the list which I now give of 



Words with their Proper Prepositions. 

 Words. F. B. 



Deviate from, via, a way. 



Devolve on, upon, volvo, I roll. 



Devote to, votum, a vow. 



Dictate to, dico, I say. 



Die of (a disease), by (the sword or ) 

 famine), for (another) j 



Differ with (a person in opinion), 

 from (a person or thing 

 some quality) 



Different from, 



Difficulty in, 



Diminution of, 



Disabled from, 



Disagree with, 



Disagreeable to, 



Disappointed of (a thing not ob- ) 

 tallied), in (a thing obtained), j 



Disapprove of, 



Discourage from, 



Discouragement to, 



Disengaged from, gage, a ; 



Disgusted at, with, gustus, taste. 



Dislike to, 



Dismissal from, missus, sent. 



Disparagement to, 



Dispense with, dispenser, to set free. 



Dispose of, to, for, positus, placed. 



Dispossess of, possideo, I possess. 



Dispute with, puto, J thinfc. 



Study and parse carefully the following admirable remarks. 

 Having done so, write, as well as you can, on the same subject ; 

 and if you have kept your earlier attempts, compare them 

 with the essay you produce on the love of knowledge. The 

 comparison will give you both instruction and encouragement. 



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f ero, I bear. 



fero, / bear, 

 facilis, easy, 

 minutus, small. 



probus, good, 

 cceur, heart. 



THE LOVK OF KNOWLEDGE. 



But while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of tha 

 understanding, and the best modes of acquiring knowledge, some meu 

 may be disposed to ask, " Why conduct my understanding with such 

 endless care ? and what is the use of so much knowledge ?" What 

 is the use of so much knowledge ? what is the use of so much 

 life ? what are we to do with the seventy years of existence 

 allotted to us ? and how are we to live them out to the last ? I 

 solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge, I should con- 

 sider the life of the meanest hedger and ditcher as preferable to that 

 of the greatest and richest man here present. For the fire of our minds 

 is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains it flames 

 night and day, and is immortal and not to be quenched ! Upon some- 

 thing it must act and feed upon the pure spirit of knowledge, or upon 

 the foul dregs of polluting passions. Therefore, when I say, in con- 

 ducting your understanding, Love knowledge with a great love, with a 

 vehement love, with a love coeval with life, what do I say but love 

 innocence love virtue love purity of conduct love that which, if you 

 are rich and great, will sanctify the blind fortune which has made you 

 so, and make men call it justice ; love that which, if you are poor, 

 will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it 

 unjust to laugh at the meanness of your fortunes ; love that which will 

 comfort you, adorn you, and never quit you which will open to you 

 the kingdom of thought, and all the boundless regions of conception, 

 as an asylum against the cruelty, the injustice, and the pain that may 

 be your lot in the outer world ; that which will make your motives 

 habitually great and honourable, and light up in an instant a thousand 

 noble disdains at the very thought of meanness and fraud ! Therefore, 

 if any young man here have embarked his life in the pursuit of know- 

 ledge, let him go on without doubting or fearing the event ; let him 

 not be intimidated by the cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the 

 darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around 

 her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and 

 sorrow which sometimes journey in her train; but let him ever follow 

 her as the angel that guards him, and as the genius of his life. She 

 will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him to the 

 world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in resources, rich in 

 imagination, strong in reasoning, prudent and powerful above his 

 fellows, in all the relations and in all the offices of life. Sydney Smith. 



LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY. XXXV. 



CONSTRUCTION OF MAP OF AFEICA, ETC. 

 THE projection for a map of Africa is constructed on a prin- 

 ciple entirely different to that of the conical form of projec- 

 tion used for Europe and Asia. It will be seen, on reference 

 to our map of the continent of Africa (Vol. III., p. 357), that 

 this division of the world is pretty nearly bisected, as far as 

 length is concerned, by the equator, the most northern point 

 of the mainland being rather more than 37 north of the equator, 

 while its most southern point is nearly 35 to the south of that 

 line. Considering the equator, then, as the centre parallel of 

 the parallels of latitude that traverse Africa, it is plain that 

 a straight line supposed to pierce the sphere at 20 or 25 

 north and south of the equator, would be parallel to the axia 

 of the sphere, and not inclined to 

 it, as ia the case of straight lines 

 piercing the sphere in two points, 

 both of which are on the same side 

 of the equator ; and it is equally 

 clear that a line entering tho 

 sphere and coming out of it again 

 in such a manner as to be paral- 

 lel to the axis of the sphere, would 

 lie in the surface of a cylinder 

 as in the annexed figure, and not 

 in a cone. It is true that the 

 projection of a map of Africa 

 might be developed on the surface 

 of a cylinder supposed to circum- 

 scribe the sphere after the manner of the kind of projection 

 called " Mercator's Projection," in which all the meridians 

 and parallels are represented by straight lines at right 

 angles to each other, and which peculiar mode of con- 

 struction will be explained in a future lesson. This style 

 of projection, however, which is used in charts and nautical 

 maps, is not so well suited for representations of very large 

 areas of land, as the parts at the top and bottom or, in other 

 words, north and south of the map are distorted, and larger in 

 proportion than the central parts ; and the mode of projection 

 most generally adopted for a map of Africa is, in consequence, 

 that which we are now going to describe. 



