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have to say to his dog may be conveyed in less 

 exceptionable terms ; and there is no occasion 

 for blasphemy to render himself intelligible. 

 A powerful explosion of voice, a sternness of 

 tone, and a fierceness of mariner, are necessary 

 to give due effect to a lecture, or to warn the 

 offender, on the instant, of the precise point of 

 duty which is infringed upon, and for which 

 he is to meet the certainty of punishment: but, 

 in the burst of these explosions, "in the very 

 whirlwind of his passion," I have to entreat that 

 he will " keep the door of his lips ;" otherwise, 

 under the strong excitement of that perpetual 

 control which is necessary to be held over the 

 sallies of the pupil, he will become " clothed in 



curses." 



