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our lips, ye wonderful and fair!

eak! the mysteries of those living worlds
No language? Everlasting light,
asting silence?-Yet the eye

and understand.

The hand of God

en legibly what man may know

Y OF THE MAKER. There it shines,
unchangeable; and man,

the surface of this pigmy globe,
v and ask no more. In other days,
ith shall give the encumbered spirit wings,
shall be extended; it shall roam,

e, amongst those vast, mysterious spheres,
; from orb to orb, and dwell in each
with its children-learn their laws,
e their state, and study and adore
ite varieties of bliss

ity, by the Hand of Power divine
on all its works. Eternity

s roll on with ever fresh delight;
of pleasure or improvement; world
still opening to the instructed mind
hausted universe, and time
ng to its glories; while the soul,
g ever to the Source of light
erfection, lives, adores and reigns
ess knowledge, purity and bliss.

LESSON CXXXII.

of a Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives ices of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, deliv 'aneuil Hall, Boston, Aug. 2, 1826.-WEBSTER.

ely land, this glorious liberty, these benign instidear purchase of our fathers, are ours; ours to to preserve, ours to transmit. Generations past, ions to come, hold us responsible for this sacred

crust. Our fathers, from behind, admonish us, with their anxious, paternal voices; posterity calls out to us from the Dosom of the future; the world turns hither its solicitous eyes;-all, all conjure us to act wisely and faithfully in the -elation which we sustain. We can never, indeed, pay the lebt which is upon us; but by virtue, by morality, by reigion, by the cultivation of every good principle and every good habit, we may hope to enjoy the blessing, through our day, and to leave it unimpaired to our children.

Let us feel deeply how much, of what we are and of what we possess, we owe to this liberty, and these institutions of government. Nature has, indeed, given us a soil which ields bounteously to the hands of industry; the mighty and Fruitful ocean is before us, and the skies over our heads shed health and vigor. But what are lands, and seas, and skies, to civilized man, without society, without knowledge, without norals, without religious culture? and how can these be enjoyed, in all their extent, and all their excellence, but under the protection of wise institutions and a free government?

There is not one of us, there is not one of us here present, who does not, at this moment, and at every moment, experience, in his own condition, and in the condition of those most near and dear to him, the influence and the benefits of this liberty, and these institutions. Let us, then, ac

knowledge the blessing; let us feel it deeply and powerfully; et us cherish a strong affection for it, and resolve to maintain and perpetuate it. The blood of our fathers, let it not have been shed in vain; the great hope of posterity,—let it not be blasted.

The striking attitude, too, in which we stand to the world around us, cannot be altogether omitted here. Neither individuals nor nations can perform their part well, until they understand and feel its importance, and comprehend and ustly appreciate all the duties belonging to it. It is not to nflate national vanity, nor to swell a light and empty feeling of self-importance; but it is that we may judge justly of our situation, and of our own duties, that I earnestly urge this consideration of our position, and our character, among the nations of the earth.

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be denied, but by those who would dispute sun, that with America, and in America, a new ces in human affairs. This era is distinguished resentative governments, by entire religious improved systems of national intercourse, by a ened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, liffusion of knowledge through the community, been before altogether unknown and unheard of. merica, our country, our own dear and native parably connected, fast bound up, in fortune and these great interests. If they fall, we fall with ey stand, it will be because we have upholden

ntémplate, then, this connexion, which binds the of others to our own; and let us manfully dishe duties which it imposes. If we cherish the vire principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist on the work of human liberty and human hapispicious omens cheer us. Great examples are Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our SHINGTON is in the clear upper sky. These other now joined the American constellation; they d their centre, and the heavens beam with new eath this illumination, let us walk the course of its close, devoutly commend our beloved country, n parent of us all, to the Divine Benignity.

LESSON CXXXIII.

Education a Life-Business.-FRANCIS.

oung men, and especially young ladies, have comr course of instruction at the schools, how often r it said, that they have finished their education! uld really seem, as if this expression were underbe literally and exactly true. But it is a great he whole process, if it has been well and wisely has only served to enable the young to go on with

e work of educating themselves, when they are released om the restraints of pupilage,-to put into their possession e means of purifying their taste, of correcting and settling eir views, of cultivating the powers of reasoning and imagation, of strengthening and enlarging their habits of ought,—in short, of elevating and refining their whole ental and moral nature.

The education, which is gradually gathered amidst the alities of life, in the discharge of daily duties, and in the plication of knowledge and principles to the obligations ad wants of our situation, is one of an exalted kind, for nich all the training of early days is but preparatory. Such à education, it is manifest, must be a life-business; it can ever come to a close, while opportunities and means are ssessed. I believe, we are not aware of the mischief, that ay be and has been done to the young, by giving them the pression, that when the period of school discipline ceases, ey have completed the cultivation of their minds, and their eparation for the engagements of life.

What must be the effect of such an impression, at a time hen the passions are usually growing into full strength, and e reason is unpractised to separate good from evil,—when mptations, the most numerous and alluring, are crowding ound the opening path of mature life,-when the dreams hope have just taken a definite form, sufficient to be cherned with even more than the fondness of childhood,—and men the world beckons on the youthful adventurer, with all e solicitations of pleasure and ambition! Then, if ever, the time not to stop the work of guarding and improving e mind and the principles, but to carry it on with more vigand a keener sense of its importance.

Education finished! Why, we might as well talk of goodess, or wisdom, or religion being finished. Especially will is appear to be true, when we extend our views farther, d consider that the whole of life is but an education for ernity; that our existence here is but a state of pupilage, in ich we are to acquire characters and habits that will rise th us from the grave, and be our joy or our shame hereafter. he mighty mind of a Newton was but in its childhood here earth; for the successive stages of man's existence, are

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be so many successive stages of advancement ment. The education of the moral and intellecegins in infancy, and goes on through subsequent it is carried out and perfected in the upper world. -tion of the grand progress, some error, or vice, y be dropped; and the soul may grow wiser, and d purer, as she travels on, till she becomes meet he stainless spirit of light and truth, and acquires y for the heavenly wisdom of the better world.

LESSON CXXXIV.

Parrhasius.-WILLIS.

, a painter of Athens, amongst those Olynthian captives Philip rought home to sell, bought one very old man ; and, when he had se, put him to death with extreme torture and torment, the betample, to express the pains and passions of his Prometheus, then about to paint."-Burton's Anat. of Mel.

golden light into the painter's room
d richly, and the hidden colors stole
e dark pictures radiantly forth,
the soft and dewy atmosphere,
ms and landscapes magical, they lay.
ls were hung with armor, and about,
im corners, stood the sculptured forms
eris, and Dian, and stern Jove,
m the casement soberly away
= grotesque, long shadows, full and true,
ke a veil of filmy mellowness,
t-specks floated in the twilight air.

nasius stood, gazing forgetfully
is canvass. There Prometheus lay,
d to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus,
lture at his vitals, and the links
lame Lemnian festering in his flesh;

s the painter's mind felt through the dim,
mystery, and plucked the shadows wild

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