GENEitAt PROPERTIES OP BOfiilES. 



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Or Avarice, a fiend more fierce than they ? 

 Flee to the shade of Academus' grove ; 



Where Cares molest not, Discord melts away 

 In harmony, and the pure passions prove 

 How sweet the words of Truth breathed from the lips of 

 Love. 



What cannot Art and Industry perform, 



When Science plans the progress of their toil ! 



They smile at penury, disease, and storm ; 

 And oceans from their mighty mounds recoil. 



When tyrants scourge, or demagogues embroil 

 A land, or when the rabble's headlong rage 



Order transforms to anarchy and spoil, 

 Deep-versed in man, the philosophic sage 

 Prepares with lenient hand their frenzy to assuage. 



'Tis he alone, whose comprehensive mind, 



From situation, temper, soil, and clime 

 Explored, a nation's various powers can bind 



And various orders, in one form sublime 

 Of polity, that midst the wrecks of time. 



Secure shall lift its head on high, nor fear 

 Th' assault of foreign or domestic crime, 



; While public Faith, and public Love sincere, 



And Industry and Law maintain their sway severe. 



Beattib. 



LESSON 15. j 



General Properties of Bodies. 



Symmetrical, proportionate, having parts well adapted to each 



other, i 



Cap'illary, a term applied to tubes of a very small bore, scarcely ^ 



larger than to admit a hair, derived from capillus, the Latin ] 



word for hair.  



When we speak of bodies, we mean substances, of what- \ 

 ever nature, whether solid or fluid ; and matter is the ge-  

 neral term used to denote the substance of which the diffe- 

 rent bodies are composed. As we do not suppose any body ; 



