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and distinguishes the philosopher, who moralizes that covers the mouldering dust of ambition, val>tism, from the fashionable vagabond, who flutters flowers, which bloom over their graves.

ll the objects of mental association, ancient buildins affect us with the deepest and most vivid They were the works of beings like ourselves. ist, impervious to mortal view, hangs over the our fond imaginings of the things, which "eye en nor ear heard," in the eternity to come, are ssociated with the men, the events and things, gone to join the eternity that is past.

agination has in vain essayed to rise beyond the h"proclaim the story of their birth," inquisitive e occupations and condition of the sages and he- we hope to join in a higher empyrean, she drops wing, and is compelled to alight among the fraggorgeous palaces and cloud-capped towers," which human ruins, and, by aid of these localities, to pon their virtues and their faults, on their deeds net and in the field, and upon the revolutions of the ages in which they lived. To this propensity may he sublimated feelings of the man, who, familiar ories of Sesostris, the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies, e pyramids, not merely as stupendous fabrics of I skill, but as monuments of the pride and amy of kings, and of the debasement and oppression tched myriads, by whose labors they were raised s. To this must be referred the awe and contrition, nnize and melt the heart of the Christian, who the holy sepulchre, and believes he sees the place Lord was laid.

is originate the musings of the scholar, who, amid f the Parthenon and the Acropolis, transports his

to the age of Pericles and Phidias ;-the reflec, not dead to sentiment, who descend to the subhabitations of Pompeii-handle the utensils that tered to the wants, and the ornaments subservient ry, of a polished city-behold the rut of wheels

pon the pavement hidden for ages from human sight-and ealize the awful hour, when the hum of industry and the ong of joy, the wailing of the infant, and the garrulity of ge, were suddenly and forever silenced by the fiery deluge, which buried the city, until accident and industry, after the apse of nearly eighteen centuries, revealed its ruins to the uriosity and cupidity of the passing age.

LESSON LXVIII.

To Seneca Lake.-J. G. PERCIVAL.

ON thy fair bosom, silver lake,

The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,
And round his breast the ripples break,
As down he bears before the gale.

On thy fair bosom, waveless stream,
The dipping paddle echoes far,
And flashes in the moonlight gleam,
And bright reflects the polar star.

The waves along thy pebbly shore,

As blows the north-wind, heave their foam,
And curl around the dashing oar,

As late the boatman hies him home.

How sweet, at set of sun, to view

Thy golden mirror spreading wide,
And see the mist of mantling blue

Float round the distant mountain's side.

At midnight hour, as shines the moon,
A sheet of silver spreads below,
And swift she cuts, at highest noon,

Light clouds, like wreaths of purest snow.

thy fair bosom, silver lake,
Oh! I could ever sweep the oar,
en early birds at morning wake,
And evening tells us toil is o'er.

LESSON LXIX.

Lake Superior.-S. G. GOODRICH.

THER OF LAKES, thy waters bend
Beyond the eagle's utmost view,
en, throned in heaven, he sees thee send
Back to the sky its world of blue.

indless and deep the forests weave Their twilight shade thy borders o'er, d threatening cliffs, like giants, heave Their rugged forms along thy shore.

e Silence, mid thy hollow caves, With listening ear in sadness broods, startled Echo, o'er thy waves,

Sends the hoarse wolf-notes of thy woods.

▪r can the light canoes, that glide
Across thy breast like things of air,
ase from thy lone and level tide,
The spell of stillness reigning there.

t round this waste of wood and wave,
Unheard, unseen, a spirit lives,
at, breathing o'er each rock and cave,
To all a wild, strange aspect gives.

e thunder-riven oak, that flings
Its grisly arms athwart the sky,
sudden, startling image brings
To the lone traveller's kindled eye.

The gnarl'd and braided boughs, that show
Their dim forms in the forest shade,
Like wrestling serpents seem, and throw
Fantastic horrors through the glade.

The very echoes, round this shore,

Have caught a strange and gibbering tone;
For they have told the war-whoop o'er,
Till the wild chorus is their own.

Wave of the wilderness, adieu;

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Adieu, ye rocks, ye wilds and woods;
Roll on, thou element of blue,
And fill these awful solitudes.

Thou hast no tale to tell of man ;

God is thy theme. Ye sounding caves,
Whisper of Him, whose mighty plan
Deems as a bubble all your waves.

LESSON LXX.

Influence of the Female Character-THACHER.

THE influence of woman on the intellectual character the community, may not seem so great and obvious, as on its civilization and manners. One reason is, that hitho such influence has seldom been exerted in the most ect way of gaining celebrity-the writing of books. In r own age, indeed, this has almost ceased to be the case; , if we should inquire for those persons, whose writings, the last half century, have produced the most practical and luring effects, prejudice itself must confess, that the name more than one illustrious woman would adorn the cataue.

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That the society and influence of woman have often mpted and refined the efforts of genius, may be granted the most zealous advocate for the superiority of our sex.

er may be thought of the influence of the sex, in culars, there is one point of view in which it is great and important.

ner of your children is necessarily their first instrucer task to watch over and assist their dawning faceir first expansion. And can it be of light impor■at manner this task is performed? Will it have no n the future mental character of the child, whethlights, which enter its understanding, are received m or folly? Are there no bad mental habits, no ses, no dangerous associations, no deep-seated preich can be communicated from the mother, the ect of the affection and veneration of the child? do the opinions of the age take no direction and no om the modes of thinking, which prevail among E the minds that exist on earth? Unless you are say, that an incalculably great amount of mental utterly wasted and thrown away; or else, with a -rogance and brutality, to deny that woman shares

the possession of a reasoning and immortal mind; acknowledge the vast importance of the influence, female sex exerts on the intellectual character of inity.

in its moral effects on the mind and the heart of the influence of woman is most powerful and imIn the diversity of tastes, habits, inclinations and the two sexes, is found a most beneficent provision ling the force and extravagance of human passions. ts which most strongly seize and stimulate the an, rarely act, at the same time and with equal the mind of woman.

e delights in enterprise and action, and the exerstronger energies of the soul, she is led to engage pursuits, and seek for gentler enjoyments. While noned into the wide and busy theatre of a contend, where the love of power and the love of gain, innumerable forms, occupy and tyrannize over the s walking in a more peaceful sphere; and though that these passions are always unfelt by her, yet her to the pursuit of very different objects. The

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