the Atlantic, he is sometimes found on the other side of America, and in the Pacific? It proves that there is a north-western passage. Another discovery which we owe to the whale, and one which throws a broad light alike on the form of the globe, and the geography of the seas! 9. By degrees, the whale has led us everywhere. Rare as he is at present, he has led us to both poles, from the uttermost recesses of the Pacific to Behring's Strait, and the infinite wastes of the Antarctic waters. There is even an enormous region that no vessel, whether war ship or merchantman, ever traverses, at a few degrees beyond the southern points of America and Africa. No one visits that region but the whaler. QUESTIONS.-1. What has been done by the whaler? 2. By whom had Newfoundland been discovered? 3. What is said of the courage of the whaler? 4. What proof is given that there is a north-western passage, by water, from the Atlantic to the Pacific? LESSON CIX. THRALL' DOM, bondage; slavery. FEUD' AL, pertaining to military tenure. PALTRY, mean; contemptible. RUF FIAN, robber; cut-throat. RI EN ZI, the last of the Roman Tribunes, was born in Rome about the year 1310. He was assassinated Oct. 8th, 1354. He was a person of ex traordinary eloquence. In his day, Rome was a prey to contending factions This kept the city in constant turmoil, and subjected the people to continual abuse and tyranny. It was the endeavor of Rienzi to arouse them to a resolution to be free. of nobles RIENZI'S' ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS. 1. FRIENDS! 2. 3. MISS MIXFORD. I come not here to talk. You know too well Strong in some hundred spearmen; only great Each hour, dark fraud, Or open rapine, or protected murder, Cries out against them. But this very day, And suffer such dishonor'? (f.) Be we men, MEN, and wash not Such shames are common ! I have known deeper wrongs. I, that speak to ye, Full of gentleness, of calmest hope, Of sweet and quiet joy; there was the look Of heaven upon his face, which limners give That gracious boy! Younger by fifteen years, 5. Yet this is Rome, That sat on her seven hills, and, from her throne " Was greater than a king! And once again,— Once again I swear, QUESTIONS.-1. In what condition did the writer say the Roman people were? 2. What wrongs are complained of? 3. What special cases are – mentioned? 4. What are the people exhorted to do? 5. What is the meaning of the suffix dom, in the word thralldom? See ANALYSIS, page 142, Ex. 189. 6. What is the meaning of the suffix less, in the word harmless? See page 140, Ex. 187. 7. How, according to the notation mark, should the first part of the third verse be read? 8. What rule for the rising inflections, third verse? See page 28, Rule I. LESSON CX. MULTI PLY, increase; continue. RE SPLEN' DENT, splendid; beautiful. Po' TENT, powerful. ROAD STEAD, place where ships RE LI ANT, trusting; depending. LE ON I DAS, the celebrated Spartan leader who, with three hundred men, perished in the effort to resist the Persian hosts, at the mountain pass of Thermopyla (B. C., 480.) 2 MARS' TON, that is, Marston Moor, a place in Yorkshire, England, memorable for the defeat of Charles I., (in 1644,) by the forces of Cromwell and others. 9 BAN' NOCK BURN, a village in Stirlingshire, Scotland, famous for the battle between the patriots, under Robert Bruce, and the English invading army, under Edward II., fought, June 25, 1314. ↑ AR MA' DA, a great naval armament sent by Philip II. of Spain, in 1588, for the conquest of England. It failed utterly, however, of its object, having been scattered and disabled by violent storms. SONG OF THE FORGE. 1. CLANG! clang! the massive anvils ring,— Clang! clang! Say, brothers of the dusky brow, 2. Chang! clang!—we forge the colter now- 3. Clang! clang!-our colter's course shall be On many a sweet and sunny lea, By many a streamlet's silver tide, 4. When regal Autumn's bounteous hand, We bless, we bless the PLOW. 5. Clang! clang!—again, my mates, what glows 6. Anxious no more, the merchant sees Calmly he rests, though, far away 7. Say, on what sands these links shall sleep, Fathoms beneath the solemn deep'? |