5 PLAN OF READING. 



All things are open to the searching eye 

 Of an attentive intellect, and bring 

 Their several treasures to it, and unfold 

 Their fabric to its scrutiny. All life, 

 And all inferior orders, in the waste 

 Of being spread before us, are to him. 

 Who lives in meditation, and the search 

 Of wisdom and of beauty, open books, 

 Wherein he reads .the Godhead, and the ways 

 He works through his creation, and the links 

 That fasten us to all things, with a sense 

 Of fellowship and feeling, so that we 

 Look not upon a cloud, or falling leaf. 

 Or flower new blown, or human face divine. 

 But we have caught new life, and wider thrown 

 The door of reason open, and have stored 

 In memory's secret chamber, for dark years 

 Of age and weariness, the food of thought. 

 And thus extended mind, and made it young, 

 When ihe tnin Imir turns gray, and feeling dies. 



Percival. 



Questions. — 1. What does memory imply? 2. What general 

 direction is given for the improvement of memory ? 3. What is a 

 rule of great necessity ? 4. What is said of those who are conceited 

 of their abilities ? 5. What is the proper remedy for those who de- 

 gpond at difficulties ? 



LESSON 5. 



Plan of Reading. ^ 



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Specula'tion, a train of thoughts formed by meditation. 1 



Discrimina'tion, the act of distinguishing one from another. | 



Desidera'ta, pi. some desirable things which are wanted. ■'- 

 Lab'yrinth, a place formed with inextricable windings. 



The only method of putting our acquired knowledge on a i 

 level with our original speculations, is, after making our- ; 

 selves acquainted with our author's ideas, to study the sub- 5 

 ject over again in our own way ; to pause, from time to time, \ 

 in the course of our reading, in order to consider what we i 

 taye gained ; to recollect what the propositions are, which ; 

 the author wishes to establish, and to examine the different .i 



