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LESSON CIII.

REMARK.-Let the pupil stand at a distance from the teacher, and den try to read so loud and distinctly that the teacher may hear each syllable.

UTTER each sound correctly and distinctly.—In-vi-ting, not in-vi t'n: phil-o-soph-ic-al, not phil'soph'c'l: in-flu-ence, not in-flu-unce: re-spect, not re-spec: de-scend-ants, not de-scend-unce; cult-ure, (pro. cult-yur), not cul-ter, nor cul-tshure; mints, not mince; pop-u-lar, not pop-py-lar; kind, not kine; his-to-ry, not his-t'ry.

1. Top'-ics, n. subjects of discourse.

2. Germ'-in-a-ted, v. sprouted, began

to grow.

time of the Druids. These were the ancient priests of Great Britain. 10. Co-los'-sal, a. very large.

4. Trans-cend'-ent, a. surpassing all, 11. Em-bod'-i-ment, n. a union in one very excellent.

body.

Dru-id'-ic-al, a. belonging to the 12. Fer'-vid, a. burning, zealous.

EUROPE AND AMERICA-WASHINGTON.

[Extract from an address delivered by DANIEL WEBSTER, at the celebration of the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843.]

1. FEW topics are more inviting, or more fit for philosophical discussion, than the action and influence of the New World upon the Old; or the contributions of America to Europe.

2. Her obligations to Europe for science and art, laws, literature, and manners, America acknowledges as she ought, with respect and gratitude. And the people of the United States, descendants of the English stock, grateful for the treasures of knowledge derived from their English ancestors, acknowledge, also, with thanks and filial regard, that among those ancestors, under the culture of Hampden and Sidney, and other assiduous friends, that seed of popular liberty first germinated, which, on our soil, has shot up to its full hight, until its branches overshadow all the land.

$. But America has not failed to make returns. If she has not aceled the obligation, or equaled it by others of like weight, she nas, at least, made respectable advances, and some approaches toward equality. And she admits, that, standing in the midst of civilized nations, and in a civilized age, a nation among nations,

there is a high part which she is expected to act, for the general advance of human interests and human welfare.

4. American mines have filled the mints of Europe with the precious metals. The productions of the American soil and climate, have poured out their abundance of luxuries for the tables of the rich, and of necessaries for the sustenance of the poor. Birds and animals of beauty and value, have been added to the European stocks; and transplantations from the transeudent and unequaled riches of our forests, have mingled themselves profusely with the elms, and ashes, and druidical oaks of England.

5. America has made contributions far more vast. Who can estimate the amount, or the value, of the augmentation of the commerce of the world, that has resulted from America? Who can imagine to himself what would be the shock to the Eastern Continent, if the Atlantic were no longer traversable, or there were no longer American productions or American markets?

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6. But America exercises influences, or holds out examples for the consideration of the Old World, of a much higher, because they are of a moral and political character. America has furnished to Europe, proof of the fact, that popular institutions, founded on equality and the principle of representation, are capable of maintaining governments; able to secure the rights of persons, property, and reputation.

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7. America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind; that portion which, in Europe, is called the laboring or lower class; to raise them to self-respect, to make them petent to act a part in the great right and great duty of selfgovernment; and this, she has proved, may be done by the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more enchanting, than ever was presented before, to those nine tenths of the human race, who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank.

8. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Washington! "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen!" Washington is all our own!

9. The enthusiastic veneration and regard in which the people of the United States hold him, prove them to be worthy of such a countryman; while his reputation abroad reflects the highest honor on his country and its institutions. I would cheerfully put the question to any of the intelligence of Europe and the world, what character of the century, upon the whole, stands out on the

relief of history, most pure, most respectable, most sublime; and I doubt not that, by a suffrage approaching to unanimity, the answer would be-Washington!

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10. This structure by its uprightness, its solidity, its +durability, is no unfit emblem of his character. His public virtue and public principles were as firm as the earth on which it stands; his personal motives as pure as the serene heaven in which its summit is lost. But, indeed, though a fit, it is an inadequate emblem. Towering high above the column which our hands have builded, beheld not by the inhabitants of a single city, or a single state, ascends the colossal grandeur of his character, and his life. In all the constituents of the one, in all the acts of the other, in all its titles to immortal love, admiration, and renown, it is an American production.

11. It is the embodiment and vindication of our trans-Atlantic liberty. Born upon our soil, of parents also born upon it; never, for a moment having had a sight of the old world; instructed, according to the modes of his time, only in the spare, but wholesome elementary knowledge which our institutions provide for the children of the people; growing up beneath, and penetrated by, the genuine influence of American society; growing up amid our expanding, but not luxurious civilization; partaking in our great destiny of labor, our long contest with unreclaimed nature and uncivilized man, our agony of glory, the war of independence, our great victory of peace, the formation of the Union, and the establishment of the constitution; he is all, all our own! That crowded and glorious life,

"Where multitudes of virtues passed along, Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Contending to be seen, then making room For greater multitudes that were to come; that life was the life of an American citizen.

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12 I claim him for America. In all the perils, in every darkened moment of the state, in the midst of the reproaches of enemies, and the misgivings of friends, I turn to that transcendent name for courage, and for consolation. To him who denies, or doubts, whether our fervid liberty can be combined with law, with order, with the security of property, with the pursuits and advancement of happiness; to him who denies that our institutions are capable of producing exaltation of soul and the passion of true glory; to him who denies that we have contributed any to the stock of great lessons and great examples; to all these I reply, by pointing to Washington!

Bunker Hill Monument.

WEBSTER.

QUESTIONS.-Where is Bunker Hill? What event of importance occurred there in the war of the revolution? How long since? For what things is America indebted to Europe? For what, is Europe indebted to America? In what respect is the monument a fit emblem of Washing ton's character? Explain how it may be considered that the character of Washington is purely an American production,

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LESSON CV.

COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE.

COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people!
Saith your God.

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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
That her warfare is accomplished,

5. That her iniquity is pardoned:

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15.

For she hath received of the Lord's hand

Double for all her sins.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord;

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
Every valley shall be exalted;

And every mountain and hill shall be made low;

And the crooked shall be made straight;

And the rough places plain :

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
And all flesh shall see it together:

For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

The voice said, Cry!

All flesh is grass,

And he said, What shall I cry?

20. And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth
Surely the people is grass.

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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:

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But the word of our God shall stand forever.

it:

O Zion, that bringest good tidings! get thee up into the high mountain;

O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings!

Lift up thy voice with strength; \\

Lift it up, be not afraid;

Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Behold! the Lord your God will come with strong hand,
And his arm shall rule for him:

Behold! his reward is with him,

And his work before him.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:

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