The air was mild as summer, all corn was off the ground, and the sky-larks were singing aloud (by the way, I saw not one at Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey).

She was one

Fit for the model of a statuary

(A race of mere impostors when all's done: I've seen much finer women, ripe and real,

Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal).

A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

From an original and infinitely more lofty and intellectual state of existence, there remains to man, according to the philosophy of Plato, a dark remembrance of divinity and perfection.

Yet, in the mere outside of nature's works, if I may so express myself, there is a splendor and a magnificence to which even untutored minds cannot attend without great delight.

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Yes, sir.".

"You say," said the judge," that the bag you lost had a hundred and ten dollars in it?" "Then," replied the judge, "this cannot be your bag, as it contained but a hundred dollars."

EXERCISE TO BE WRITTEN.

Introduce the marks of parenthesis into their respective places:

Not a few are the incitements of the working classes would they were greater! to the accumulation of property, and even to the investment of land. (Remark e.)

The finest images which Joseph Hall conjures up and many of them are wonderfully fine never displace the great truths for the sake of which they are admitted. (Remark a.)

There is nothing that we call a good which may not be converted into a curse that is, nothing that is providential or external, and not of the soul; nor is there an evil of that nature which is not thoroughly a good. (Remark b.)

There is a power have you not felt it? in the presence, conversation, and example of a man of strong principle and magnanimity, to lift us, at least for the moment, from our vulgar and tame habits of thought, and to kindle some generous aspirations after the excellence which we were made to attain. (Remarks e, l.)

Under God, and by those spiritual aids which are ever vouchsafed in exact proportion to our endeavors to obtain them, how gracious and glorious is this truth! we are morally and religiously, as well as intellectually, the makers of ourselves. (Remark c.)

Sir, I hope the big gentleman that has just sat down Mr. Francis Archer will do me the justice to believe, that, as I receive little satisfaction from being offended, so I am not sedulous to find out cause for offence. Applause. (Remark i.)

I mention these instances, not to undervalue science it would be folly to attempt that; for science, when true to its name, is true knowledge, but to show that its name is sometimes wrongfully assumed, and that its professors, when not guided by humility, may prove but misleading counsellors. (Remark b.)

And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds. For I say unto you, that unto every one who hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. (Remarks 1, h.)

"Young master was alive last Whitsuntide," said the coachman. "Whitsuntide! alas!" cried Trim,extending his right arm, and falling instantly into the same attitude in which he read the sermon," what is Whitsuntide, Jonathan" for that was the coachman's name, or Shrovetide, or any other tide or time, to this?" (Remark b.)

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No lesson of a practical kind and al! lessons ought to be practical requires to be so often repeated as that which enjoins upon the mind a state of passivity; for what an electrical thing is it! How does it dart forth after this and that, flitting from sweet to sweet for it never willingly tastes of bitter things, and "feeding itself without fear"! (Remarks a, b.)

Inquiring the road to Mirlington, I addressed him by the name of Honesty. The fellow whether to show his wit before his mistress, or whether he was displeased with my familiarity, I cannot tell directed me to follow a part of my face which, I was well assured. could be no guide to me, and that other parts would follow of consequence. (Remarks a, b.)

Socrates has often expressly said, that he considered human life in general and without doubt the state of the world in his day must have eminently tended to make him so consider it in the light of an imprisonment of the soul, or of a malady under which the nobler spirit is condemned to linger, until it be set free and purified by the healing touch of death. (Remark a.)

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SECT. III. THE DASII.

The DASH [-] is a straight horizontal line, used for the purposes specified in the following rules.

REMARK 8.

a. Notwithstanding the advantages resulting from the proper use of the dash, the most indistinct conceptions have been formed in regard to its nature and its applications. Many authors, some of them of high standing in the literary world, as well as a majority of letter-writers, are wont to employ this mark so indiscriminately as to prove that they are acquainted neither with its uses, nor with those of the other points whose places it is made to supply. Some use it instead of a comma; others, instead of a semicolon; not a few, where the colon is required; and a host, between every sentence and after every paragraph. Others go even further, by introducing it between the most commonplace words and phrases, apparently to apprise the reader, through the medium of his eye, what perhaps he could not discover by his judgment, that the composition before him is distinguished for brilliance of diction, tenderness of sentiment, or force of thought. But surely the unnecessary profusion of straight lines, particularly on a printed page, is offensive to good taste, is an index of the dasher's profound ignorance of the art of punctuation, and, so far from helping to bring out the sense of an author, is better adapted for turning into nonsense some of his finest passages.

b. From these abuses in the application of the dash, some writers have strongly questioned its utility in any way as a sentential mark. So long, however, as modes of thought are different, and the style of composition corresponds with the peculiarities of an author's mind, so long will it be necessary occasionally to use the dash. The majestic simplicity of Scripture language may dispense with the use of this mark; but the affected and abrupt style of a Sterne, the broken and natural colloquialisms of a Shakspeare, the diffusive eloquence of a Chalmers, and the parenthetical inversions of a Bentham or a Brougham, will scarcely admit of being pointed only with the more common and grammatical stops.

RULE I.

Broken and Epigrammatic Sentences.

The dash is used where a sentence breaks off ab. ruptly, and the subject is changed; where the sense is suspended, and is continued after a short interruption; where a significant or long pause is required; and where there is an unexpected or epigrammatic turn in the sentiment.

EXAMPLES.

1. Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band? Was there ever but I scorn to boast.

2. Then the eye of a child who can look unmoved into that "well unde filed," in which heaven itself seems to be reflected?

8. You have given the command to a person of illustrious birth, of ancient family, of innumerable statues, but of no experience.

4. HERE LIES THE GREAT-False marble! where? Nothing but sordid dust lies here.

REMARKS.

a. In the preceding examples, no grammatical point is used with the dash, because, in the first two and the last one, none would seem to be required if the sentences broken off had been finished; and because, in the third, the word "but," before the mark showing the suspensive pause, is intimately connected in sense with the phrase that follows it. But if the parts of a sentence, between which the pause of suspension is to be made, are susceptible of being grammatically divided, their proper point should be inserted before the dash; as, "He sometimes counsel takes, and sometimes snuff."

b. Passages of the following kind, in which an unfinished question is taken up immediately afterwards in an alternate form, may be brought under the operation of the present rule; the dash, with a comma before it, being placed after the commencing portion of the sentence: "Who could best describe to you a country, he who had travelled its entire surface, or he who had just landed on its shores? Who could best breathe into you the spirit of Christian love, he who had scarcely learned to control his own passions, or Jesus of Nazareth?"

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ORAL EXERCISE.

Why are dashes inserted in the following sentences ? —

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, any thing but-live for it.

Greece, Carthage, Rome,

tory

how is it that they are so dark and sad?

If you will give me your attention, I will show you- but stop! I do not know that you wish to see.

Leonidas, Cato, Phocion, Tell, -one peculiarity marks them all: they dared and suffered for their native land.

If thou art he, so much respected once

how degraded!

-but, oh, how fallen!

The good woman was allowed by everybody, except her husband, to be a sweet-tempered lady — when not in liquor.

-as I can, Madam

I take eh! oh!- -as much exercise- eh! Gout. You know my sedentary state.

Hast thou

but how shall I ask a question which must bring tears into so many eyes?

- thy son!

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, — behold Then saith he to the disciple, Behold

thy mother!

When the poor victims were bayoneted, clinging round the knees of the soldiers, would my friend but I cannot pursue the strain of

my interrogation.

"Lord Cardinal! if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
Hold up thy hand; make signal of that hope."-
He dies, and makes no sign.

Approaching the head of the bed, where my poor young companion, with throat uncovered, was lying, with one hand the monster grasped his knife, and with the other - ah, cousin! - with the other he seized -a ham.

Good people all, with one accord,

Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word-

From those who spoke her praise.

A "Hamlet," a "Paradise Lost," and a St. Peter's Church,are they not, each after its kind, creations to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken away, without disturbance of their serene, absolute completeness?