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is, in most of them, worn away. In those forms, in that couched posture, in the decaying, shapeless heads, the huge worn paws, the little image between them, and the sacred tau grasped in its crossed hands, there is something which disturbs you with a sense of awe. In the locality you cannot err; you are on a highway to a heathen temple; one that the Roman came, as you come, to visit and admire, and the Greek before him. And you know that priest and king, lord and slave, the festal throng and the solitary worshipper, trod for centuries where you do ; D; and you know that there has been the crowding flight of the vanquished towards their sanctuary and last hold, and the quick trampling of armed pursuers, and the neighing of the war-horse, and the voice of the trumpet, and the shout, as of a king, among them, all on this silent spot. And you see before you, and on all sides, ruins ;-the stones which formed walls and square temple-towers thrown down in vast heaps; or still, in large masses, erect as the builder placed them, and where their material has been fine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the sun of the desert. Here is no lichen, no moss, no rank grass or mantling ivy, no wallflower or wild fig-tree to robe them, and to con ceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No;

all is the nakedness of desolation-the colossal skeleton of a giant fabric standing in the unwatered sand, in solitude and silence.

There are no ruins like these ruins. In the first court you pass into, you find one large, lofty, solita ry column, erect among heaped and scattered fragments, which had formed a colonnade of one-and

twenty like it. You pause awhile, and then move slowly on. You enter a wide portal, and find yourself surrounded by one hundred and fifty columns, on which I defy any man, sage or savage, to look unmoved. Their vast proportions, the better taste of after days rejected and disused; but the still astonishment, the serious gaze, the thickening breath of

the awed traveller, are tributes of an admiration not to be checked or frozen by the chilling rules of taste.

Author of Sketches in India.

Here you have a flowing style. The descriptions, grand-incline you to be serious. Something imposing, awful, sublime, in all is the nakedness of desolation—the colossal skeleton of a giant fabric standing in the unwatered sand, in solitude and silence.Where, either in prose or poetry, could you find a superior? There are some negative members which demand the falling inflection. Where are they?

General Ignorance of the Real Sources of National Wealth, the Cause of much Misery.

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AFTER stating, with his usual caution and sagacity, that it would be unreasonable to expect any signal or immediate effect from the most general study of the principles of this science, Mr. McCulloch observes," that it would not be easy, however, to overrate the pernicious effects even of popular ignorance and misconception on the subject to which it relates; and states that, in the course of his Lectures, he has frequent occasion to refer to various instances, among the innumerable variety that might be pointed out, both in the history of this and other countries, to show the injurious effects of popular ignorance on national prosperity. How often, for example, have all the evils of scarcity been aggravated by the groundless prejudices of the public against corndealers, and the injudicious interference of government? How often have restrictions and prohibitions been solicited by those to whom they proved productive only of ruin? How often have the labouring classes endeavoured to prevent the introduction and improvement of machines, and processes for abridging labour, and reducing the cost of production, though it is certain that they are uniformly the greatest gainers by them? How much has the rate of wages

been reduced, and the condition of the lower classes been deteriorated, by the prevalence of mistaken opinions respecting the principle of population; and the mistaken application of public charities?—The object of the famous excise scheme, proposed by Sir Robert Walpole in 1733, was not to raise the duties on any commodity whatever, but to introduce the warehousing and bonding system-" To make London a free port, and by consequence the market of the world." And yet the mere proposal of this scheme had well nigh lighted up the flames of rebellion in the country, and its abandonment by the minister was hailed with the most earnest and enthusiastic demonstrations of popular rejoicing. And such is the strength of vulgar prejudice, that it was not until 1803 that the warehousing system-the greatest improvement that has perhaps ever been made in the financial and commercial policy of the countrycould be safely adopted.

"But where examples of this sort are so numerous and striking as to arrest the attention of every one, it is unnecessary to specify them. I shall only, therefore, further observe, that the war of 1756, the American war, and the greater part of the wars of last century, with the exception of those that grew out of the French Revolution, were waged for the purpose of preserving or acquiring some exclusive commercial advantage. But does any one suppose that these contests could have been carried on, at such an infinite expense of blood and treasure, had the mass of the people known that their object was utterly unattainable?-had they known that it is impossible for any one country to monopolize wealth and riches; and that every such attempt must ultimately prove ruinous to itself, as well as injurious to others? It is to Political Economy that we owe an incontrovertible demonstration of these truths ;— truths that are destined to exercise the most salutary influence on humanity-to convince mankind that it is for their interest to live in peace, to deal with each other on fair and liberal principles, and not to be

come the dupes of their own short-sighted avarice, or the willing instruments of the blind ambition, or petty animosities, of their rulers."

McCulloch.

What inflection at government, ruin, them, charities, whatever, system, port, world, country, rejoicing, one, them, treasures, attainable, riches, others. There are parenthetical members in this extract. Mention them. There are negative members, Where

are they? Do they belong to the rising or the falling inflection? Give your reasons.

Character of Napoleon le Grand, on his Return to France after the Conquest of Italy.

THE character of Napoleon, at this period, appears to have been that of an enterprising soldier, with extraordinary talents and genius, but of no fixed political princples or opinions; full of aspiring thoughts, but without any settled plan to gratify his ambition. It was impossible, said Meerfeldt, for any one to converse with him for ten minutes, without perceiving that he was a man of great views and great capacity. His language, his manner, his conceptions, said Melsi, were striking and peculiar. In conversation, as in war, he was fertile and full of resource; quick in discerning, and prompt in pressing the weak points of his adversary. His information from books was small, and he had made little progress in any branch of study except in mathematics; but he had great quickness of apprehension, and wonderful powers of application. Of all his qualities, continued Melsi, the most remarkable was his capacity of long continued and unremitted attention. His projects were vast and gigantic, conceived with genius, but sometimes impracticable, and not unfrequently. abandoned from temper, or defeated by his own impatience. He was naturally hasty, decisive, impetuous and violent; but would make himself very agreeable in conversation, and showed great deference and civility to those whom he wished to conci

liate. Though habitually close and reserved, he was sometimes indiscreet and imprudent from passion, but he seemed never to unbosom himself from affection. La balle qui me tuera, portera mon nom,’ was one of his sayings, and savours of that fatalism so natural to men whose lives are daily exposed to the chances of war, or to the dangers of the ocean. His figure was at this time pale and thin; and with so slender a frame, his activity and endurance of fatigue appeared quite incredible. We quote Melsi with the greater confidence, because he was a man competent to judge of the attainments as well as the talents of others; and, at the time we received our information from him, he was retired from the world, and had no motive whatever for extenuating or exaggerating the truth.

Such was Napoleon at his return to France, after the conquest of Italy,-an object of admiration to the world, and of jealousy and suspicion to the government he had served.

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What inflection at said Meerfeldt, said Melsi, continued Melsi, genius, thoughts, ambition, imprudence, from passion, pale and thin, frame, confidence, of others, from him.

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Harley's Death.

THERE are some remembrances, said Harley, which rise involuntary on my heart, and make me almost wish to live. I have been blessed with a few friends, who redeem my opinion of mankind. I recollect, with the tenderest emotion, the scenes of pleasure I have passed among them-but we shall meet again, my friend, never to be separated. There are some feelings which perhaps are too tender to be suffered by the world. The world, in general, is selfish, interested, and unthinking, and throws the imputation of romance, or melancholy, on every temper more susceptible than its own. I cannot but think, in those regions which I contemplate, if there

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