Nature cries aloud for freedom as our proper guide, our birthright, and our end.

Thousands of state-projects, on the vastest scale, have been conceived, executed, and forgotten.

Deep-hearted practical faithfulness is not separable long from true-thoughted practical faith.

In the face of the young fop above mentioned was seen an impertinent smile of affectation.

They are but sluggards in well-doing who know to do good only when they have a purse in their hand.

If man could ascend to dwell at the fountainhead of truth, he would be re-absorbed in God.

In moments of clear, calm thought, I feel more for the wrong-doer than for him who is wronged.

Edward the Sixth was a boy-king and a puppet-prince, invested with supreme power, but acting without any volition of his own. The term "bridegroom," strange as it seems, is given to a newly married man.

Education can hardly be too intellectual, unless by intellectual you mean parrot-knowledge, and other modes of mind-slaughter, The churchyard bears an added stone; the fireside shows a vacant chair.

Columbus was for years an all but heart-broken suitor to royal stocks and stones.

Many who have worshipped within these walls are now in the higher house, in the church of the First-born.

If any one affirms that the juxtaposition of a number of particles makes a hope, he affirms a proposition to which I can attach no idea.

In shipwrecks we are furnished with some of the most remarkable examples of trust in God, of unconquerable energy, and of tender, self-sacrificing love.

The fair-weather sailor may equip himself tolerably from the storehouse of Epicurus; but stronger tackle will be needed when the masts are bending and the cordage straining in the storm.

A man of no feeling must necessarily be unhappy, since the texture of his heart affords him no superabundant sensibility for the sufferings of his fellow-creatures.

You talk of the prosperity of your city. Do not point me to your thronged streets. Is it a low-minded, self-seeking, gold-worshipping, man-despising crowd which I see rushing through them?

EXERCISE TO BE WRITTEN.

In this exercise, let the compound and derivative words be written agreeably to the two preceding Rules and the Remarks:

Genius has no chartered license to wander away from the eternal land marks of morality. (Rule I., § II.)

The selfish use rules as means of self indulgence, and the narrow minded over look the end in the means. (Rule I., §§ 1. and II.) Every rail road, connecting distant regions, may be regarded as accomplishing a ministry of peace. (Rule I., § 11.)

Genius, in its highest function, cannot co exist with a corrupted moral sentiment. (Rule II., § 11.)

The new moon silvered the lofty pines, and the stars twinkled with rare brilliancy from their dark blue depths. (Rule I., § i.)

He who has a good son in law has gained a son: he who has a bad one has lost a daughter. (Rule I., Remark 2 k.)

What is religious instruction to the vain, the frivolous, the in different, the pre occupied and fore closed mind? (Rule II.)

Is a woman ambitious to ply a black smith's hammer, when she can wield so cunningly the thin, flitting sword of the spirit? (Rule I., § 11.)

The distance of the earth from the sun is, in round numbers, one hundred millions of miles; which is, of course, the radius or semi diameter of its orbit. (Rule II., § I.)

Perhaps the sermons which have cost a clergy man the least effort may some times have the most effect on his hearers. (Rule I., II.; and Remark 2 g.)

The ordinary processes of direct instruction are of immense im portance; but they pre suppose the mind to which they are applied an active co operation. (Rule II., §§ 1. and 11.)

As some instruments are tuned with a tuning fork, some discourses seem to have been pitched with a pitch fork. (Rule I., Remark e 5, and § II.)

The faith of the first Christians expressed itself in vehement re action against the prevailing tendencies of an exceedingly corrupted civilization. (Rule II., § II.)

He is gone on the mountain, he is lost to the forest,

Like a summer dried fountain, when our need was the sorest:

The fount, re appearing, from the rain drops shall borrow;

But to us comes no cheering, to Duncan no morrow.

(Rule I., § I.; L., § II.; I., II.)

RULE III.

The Division of Words into Syllables, according to their
Pronunciation.

The hyphen is used between the syllables of a word, to exhibit, as accurately as possible, its true pronunciation ; no regard being paid to the mode in which it has been formed or derived.

a. A syllable is a combination of letters uttered by one impulse of the voice; as hab or ha in the word habit, according to the specific principle of syllabication which may be adopted. A single letter of a word, pronounced by itself, is also termed a syllable; as i or o in the exclamation io!

b. The mode of syllabication laid down in the rule is, unquestionably, the only one fitted for conveying the true sounds of words, or rather for making some approach to an accurate pronunciation; and all spelling-books should be constructed on this principle, -a principle which, though recommended by Dr. Lowth and adopted by lexicographers, has been neglected by some of our most. popular writers of elementary works for children. It must, however, be acknowledged, that many words are divided in the same manner, whether regard be had to their pronunciation, or to the mode in which they have been formed; as, horse-man, sa-cred, be-ing, na-tion, a-mend-ment; and that there are others, the true sounds of which cannot be correctly shown by any kind of syllabication, without a change in the letters; such as the words acid, docile, ancient, specify. digit, register.

c. The rule given above is adopted by American printers in the division of such words as cannot be entirely brought into one and the same line; but the rule which follows is generally preferred by British typographers

RULE IV.

The Division of Words into Syllables, according to their Form, Derivation, or Meaning.

The hyphen is employed in words in such a manner as is best calculated to show their origin, composition, or import, and to exhibit the syllables in their neatest

a. Agreeably to this rule, and partially in accordance with that which precedes it, —

1. Compound and derivative words are resolved into their primitives; as, school-master, hand-writing, pen-knife, snuff-box, looking-glass; arch-angel, geo-logy, theo-cracy, ortho-graphy.

2. Prefixes, affixes, and grammatical terminations, are separated; as, dis-continue, en-able, trans-port; shear-er, load-ed, print-ing; king-dom, false-hood, differ-ence, command-ment.

3. Two vowels, not being a diphthong, are divided; as, la-ity, a-eri-al, re-al, stere-otype, vi-al, pi-ety, li-on, tri-umph, co-alesce, po-et, medi-um, zo-ology, vow-el, cru-elty, vacu-um.

4. One consonant between two vowels is to be joined to the latter syllable; as, ta-lent, fa-tal; me-lon, le-ver; spi-rit, si-lence; cu-nic, ty-ro; le-ga-cy, mo-no-po-ly. Except x, and single consonants when they belong to the former portion of a derivative word; as, ex-ile, ex-ist, ex-amine; up-on, dis-ease, circum-ambient.

5. Two or more consonants belong to the latter syllable, when they are capable of beginning a word; as, ta-ble, sti-fle, lu-cre, o-gle, mau-gre, stro-phe, de-stroy.

6. But when the consonants cannot begin a word, or when the vowel preceding them is short, the first should be separated; as, ab-bey, ac-cent, vel-lum, ab-ject, gar-den, laun-dry, pam-phlet; sac-rifice, det-riment, blaspheme, dis-tress, min-strel.

b. It is desirable that compound and derivative words should, at the ends of lines, be divided in such a manner as to indicate their principal parts. Thus, school-master is preferable to schoolmas-ter, dis-approve to disap-prove, resent-ment to re-sentment, ortho-doxy to or-thodoxy; though, as regards the analysis of words into syllables, the latter mode is unobjectionable. From the narrowness of the printed line, however, in some books, the principle recommended cannot always be adhered to.

c. The terminations tion, sion, cial, tial, and many others, formerly pronounced as two syllables, but now only as one, must not be divided either in spelling or at the end of a line.

d. A syllable consisting of only one letter, as the a in cre-ation, should not commence a line. This word would be better divided, crea-tion; and so all others of a similar kind. But such a syllable, coming immediately after a primitive, is by some printers brought to the beginning; as, consider-able.

e. A line of print must not end with the first syllable of a word, when it consists of a single letter; as, a-bide, e-normous: nor begin with the last syllable, when it is formed of only two letters; as, nation-al, teach-er, similar-ly. For regard should be had to the principles of taste and beauty, as well as to the laws of syllabication.

f. Three or more successive lines should not end with a hyphen. A little care on the part of the compositor will, in general, prevent an appearance so offensive to a good eye. Divisions, indeed, except for purposes of spelling and lexicography, should take place as seldom as possible.

EXERCISES TO BE WRITTEN.

Divide the following words agreeably to both the preceding Rules; namely, according to their pronunciation, and according to their composition or derivation:

Habit, vivid, considerable, speculative, philosophy, modification, govern, individual, phenomenon, knowledge, elaborate, academical, progress, critical, vacuum, labyrinth, animal, physiology, revelation, constituent, reciprocally, vigor, accredited, curiosity, magnificent, privacy, cherish, valuable, apology, idolater, equilibrium, solemn, separate, metaphysics, liberal, modern, preface, gratify, biography, literature, nominal, philanthropy, theocracy, barometer, preparation, figure, natural, prelude, clamor, reformation, metropolis, represent, recognize, rhetoric, diminish, articulate, peasant, antipodes, misery,