GLORY.

My sisters and my brothers both
From evil guard, and save from sloth,
And may we always love each other,
Our friends, our father, and our mother!
And still, O Lord, to me impart
A contrite, pure, and grateful heart,
That after my last sleep I may
Awake to thy eternal day. Amen.3

1. Put these two lines in natural order,

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COLERIDGE.

3. Explain the meaning of the two last lines, particularly the expressions 2. What part of speech is both? Could last sleep and thy eternal day. it be any other?

XIV. GLORY.

"To govern one's self, not others, is true glory."—Channing.

"If I am asked, who is the greatest man? I answer the best; and if I am required to say who is the best? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellow creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation of letters, by obscure and inglorious attainments, by intellectual pursuits, calculated rather to amuse than inform, than by strenuous exertions in speaking and acting, let those consider who bury themselves in studies unproductive of any benefit to their country or fellow citizens. I think not."-Sir Wm. Jones's Commentaries.

FOR what is glory but the blaze of fame,

The people's praise, if always praise unmixed?
And what the people but a herd confused,

A miscellaneous rabble, who extol

Things vulgar, and well weighed, scarce worth the praise ?1
They praise and they admire they know not what,

And know not whom but as one leads the other;

And what delight to be by such extolled,

To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise ?-
His lot who dares be singularly good.

The intelligent among them and the wise
Are few, and glory scarce of few is raised.

They err, who count it glorious to subdue
By conquest far and wide, to overrun
Large countries, and in field great battles win,
Great cities by assault: what do these worthies,
But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave
Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote,
Made captive, yet deserving freedom more
Than those their conquerors, who leave behind
Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove,
And all the flourishing works of peace destroy,
Then swell with pride, and must be titled Gods,
Great benefactors of mankind, deliverers,
Worshipped with temple, priest and sacrifice;
One is the son of Jove, of Mars the other;
Till conqueror Death discovers them scarce men,
Rolling in brutish vices, and deformed,
Violent or shameful death their due reward.
But if there be in glory ought of good,
It may by means far different be attained,
Without ambition, war, or violence;
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance: I mention still

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Him whom thy wrongs, with saintly patience borne,
Made famous in a land and times obscure;
Who names not now with honour patient Job?
Poor Socrates, who next more memorable?
By what he taught and suffer'd for so doing,
For truth's sake suffering death unjust lives now
Equal in fame to proudest conquerors.
Yet if for fame and glory aught be done,
Aught suffered; if young Africane for fame
His wasted country freed from Punic rage,
The deed becomes unpraised, the man at least,
And loses, though but verbal," his reward.

1. Who extol things vulgar, and which, if they are well weighed, are found to be scarce worth the praise that they get-such as it is.

2. What case is cities in?

3. Who are referred to in these lines? 4. What is unjust meant to qualify? 5. Wollaston, in his "Religion of Nature Delineated," has a curious passage which will sufficiently indicate the force of the word verbal, as here used by Milton:-" A man is not known ever the more to posterity because his name is transmitted to them; he doth not live, because his name doth. When it is said, Julius Cæsar subdued Gaul, beat

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Pompey, changed the Roman Commonwealth into a monarchy, &c., it is the same thing as to say the conqueror of Pompey was Cæsar; that is, Cæsar, and the conqueror of Pompey, are the same thing; and Cæsar is as much known by the one distinction as the other. The amount then is only this: that the conqueror of Pompey conquered Pompey; or somebody conquered Pompey, or, rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Cæsar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality; and such as has been here described, is the thing called glory among us!"

WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?

XV. PROVIDENCE.

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"THERE is but one thing without honour; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or be: insincerity, unbelief. He who believes no thing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all.-Carlyle.

GOD moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds we so much dread'
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;2

The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.

1. The ellipsis in this line?

COWPER.

2. In what case is hour, and how?

XVI. WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?

"A CERTAIN man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance, there came down a certain priest that way; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the

place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell

among the thieves? And the lawyer said, 'He that shewed mercy on him.' Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.". Luke x. 30-37.

THY neighbour? It is he whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless;
Whose aching heart, or burning brow,
Thy soothing hand may press.

Thy neighbour? "Tis the fainting poor,
Whose eye with want is dim,
Whom hunger sends from door to door;
Go thou and succour him.

Thy neighbour? "Tis that weary man,
Whose years are at their brim,'
Bent low with sickness, cares, and pain;
Go thou and comfort him.

Thy neighbour? "Tis the heart bereft
Of every earthly gem ;2

Widow and orphan, helpless left:-
Go thou and shelter them.

Thy neighbour? Yonder toiling slave,
Fettered in thought and limb,
Whose hopes are all beyond the grave:
Go thou and ransom him.

Oh, pass not, pass not heedless by:
Perhaps thou canst redeem

The breaking heart from misery:
Oh share thy lot with him."

1. Explain this metaphor.
2. The meaning of gem here?

ANONYMOUS.

3. The correlative of him?

"THE parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them-if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm; if he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that his mind is planted above injuries, so that he cannot be shot; if he be thankful for small benefits, it shows that he weighs men's minds, and not their trash; but, above all, if he have St. Paul's perfection-that he would wish to be an anathema from Christ, for the salvation of his brethren, it shows much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself."-Bacon's Essays.

THE quality of mercy' is not strained;

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath :2 it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes :3
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself;

And earthly power doth then show* likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Think of this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

1. One word for quality of mercy? 2. One word for the place beneath? 3. In what way does mercy bless him that gives and him that takes?

4. In what sense is show here used?

SHAKSPEARE.

5. What clause of the Lord's Prayer is here specially referred to?

N.B. This will be found a suitable piece for extending by way of paraphrase.

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