11. The reply of Mirabeau, to the messenger of the king, who had ordered the French National Assembly to disperse, presents two emphatic words, which the reader who comprehends and feels the speech will not be slow to detect: "Go say to those who sent you, that we are here by the power of the people, and that we will not be driven hence save by the power of the bayonet." 12. The following passage, in the reply of Lord Thurlow to the Duke of Grafton, contains at least eight prominently emphatic words: "No one venerates the Peerage more than I do; but, my lords, I must say that the Peerage solicited me, not I the Peerage. Nay, more,-I can say, and will say, that, as a peer of Parliament, as Speaker of this right honorable House, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England, -nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered, but which character none can deny me,as a man, I am, at this moment, as respectable-I beg leave to add, as much respected—as the proudest peer I now look down upon." 13. Few positive rules for reading can be laid down, to which many unforeseen exceptions can not be taken. "Give the sense of what you read," says Mr. Knowles. "Mind is the thing. Pauses are essential only where the omission would obscure the sense. The orator who, in the act of delivering himself, is studiously solicitous about parceling his words, is sure to leave the best part of his work undone. He delivers words, not thoughts. Deliver thoughts, and words will take care enough of themselves, providing always that you have acquired the proper accuracy in pronunciation." XXXIII. THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND. SIEGE (seej), n., the besetting of a | IN-CUL'CATE, v. t., to urge upon by place with troops. SERVILE, a., slavish; cringing. BOM-BARD', v. t., to attack with bombs. IN'CU-BUS, n., the nightmare. frequent repetition. DE-VEL'OP, v. t., to uncover. MAG-NA-NIM'I-TY, n., greatness of Avoid saying wuss for worse; exibit for ex-hib'it; tremendyous for tre-men'dous. Sound er in prop'er-ty, en'er-gy, lib'er-ty, &c. 1. Ir we are not fully prepared for war, let the sublime fact be soon exhibited, that a free and valiant nation, with our numbers, and a just cause, is always a powerful nation,-is always ready to defend its essential rights. In the Congress of 1774, among other arguments used to prevent a war, and discour age separation from Great Britain, the danger of having our towns battered down and burnt was zealously urged. 2. The venerable Christopher Gadsden, of South Carolina, rose and replied to it in these memorable words: "Our seaport towns, Mr. President, are composed of brick and wood. If they are destroyed, we have clay and timber enough in our country to rebuild them. But, if the liberties of our country are destroyed, where shall we find the materials to replace them ?" 3. During the siege of Boston, General Washington consulted Congress upon the propriety of bombarding the town. Mr. Hancock was then President of Congress. After General Washington's letter was read, a solemn silence ensued. This was broken by a member making a motion that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, in order that Mr. Hancock might give his opinion upon the important sub ject, as he was so deeply interested, from having al his estate in Boston. 4. After he left the chair, he addressed the chairman of the committee of the whole in the following words: "It is true, sir, nearly all the property I have in the world is in houses, and other real estate, in the town of Boston; but if the expulsion of the British army from it, and the liberties of our country, require their being burnt to ashes, issue the order for that purpose immediately." 5. What inspiring lessons of duty do examples like these inculcate ! War, fellow-citizens, is a great evil; but not the greatest of evils. Submission to injustice is worse. Loss of honor is worse. A peace purchased by mean and inglorious sacrifices is worse. That sordid or that self-indulgent spirit, which would lead a man to prize the satisfactions of avarice or of worldly ease above country, above manliness, above freedom, is worse, far worse. 6. I am no apologist of war. 1 hate and deplore it. It should be the last resort of nations. It should be shunned on every principle, Christian and humane. It brings tremendous evils in its train. It foments some of the vilest passions of our nature, even as it often develops the most heroic virtues. If the money lav. ished in keeping up great naval and military establishments were spent in employing labor, and educating the people, how much good might be effected, how much evil might be prevented! 7. But an ignoble peace may be even more demoralizing than a sanguinary war. It may corrupt all the springs of a people's energy and magnanimity. It may make them servile, sensual, selfish. It may be such an in'cubus on a nation's character, that every true patriot must feel crushed and degraded under its weight, till he could almost exclaim, with disgraced Cassio, "O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is běstial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!" BROWN. (1812.) XXXIV. SUNRISE ON MOUNT ETNA. C▲-TAʼNI-A, n., a town on the east | IM-PLICIT (im-plis'it), a., wrapped up coast of Sicily. DE-CLIV'I-TY, n., a slope. PROG'E-NY (proj'e-ny), n., offspring. flows from a volcano. VOL-CA'NO, n., a burning mountain. SEP'A-RATE, v. t., to disjoin; to part. in; trusting to another. PLASTIC, a., giving form. CHA'OS (ka'os), n., a confused mass. PĂR'AL-LEL, n., a line equally distant at all points from another line; a resemblance. SCEN'ER-Y, n., the objects that make DE-SCRY', v. t., to see at a distance. Pronounce Alicudi, Al-e-coo'de. The ph in atmosphere has the sound of f. Do not say trax for tracts. Perfume, the noun, has the accent on the first syllable, to distinguish it from the verb per-fume'. 1. Ar daybreak, we set off from Cata'nia, to visit Mount Etna, that venerable and respectable father of mountains. His base and his immense declivities are covered with a numerous progeny of his own; for every great eruption produces a new mountain, and perhaps by the number of these, better than by any other method, the number of eruptions, and the age of Etna itself, might be ascertained. The whole mountain is divided into three distinct regions, called the fertile, the woody, and the barren region. These three are as different, both in climate and productions, as thẹ three zones of the earth, and, perhaps, with equal propriety, might have been styled the Torrid, the Temperate, and the Frigid Zone. 2. The first region surrounds the mountain, and constitutes the most fertile country in the world. It extends to the distance of fourteen or fifteen miles, where the woody region begins. It is composed almost entirely of lava, which, after a number of ages, is at last converted into the most fertile of all soils. After leaving Nicolo'si, twelve miles up the mountain, in an hour and a half's traveling, over barren ashes and lava, we arrived on the con'fines of the woody region, or temperate zone. As soon as we came to these delightful forests, we seemed to have entered another world. The air, which before was sultry and hot, was now cool and refreshing; and every breeze was loaded with a thousand perfumes, the whole ground being covered with the richest aromatic plants. Many parts of this region are surely the most delightful spots upon earth. 3. This mountain unites every beauty and every horror, and the most opposite and dissimilar objects in nature. Here you observe a gulf, that formerly threw out torrents of fire, now covered with the most luxuriant vegetation, and from an object of terror become one of delight. Here you gåther the most delicious fruit, rising from what was but lately a barren rock. Here the ground is covered with flowers; and we wander over these beauties, and contem'plate this wilderness of sweets, without considering that, under our feet, but a few yards separate us from lakes of liquid fire and brimstone. 4. But our astonishment still increases, upon raising our eyes to the higher region of the mountain. There we behold, in perpetual union, the two elements which are at perpetual war, an immense gulf of fire, forever existing in the midst of snows, which it has not power to melt; and immense fields of snow and ice, forever surrounding this gulf of fire, which they have not power to extinguish. The woody region of Etna ascends for about eight or nine miles, and forms a |