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ELECTION.

ELYSIUM.

elected to be saved from the shipwreck, but ELOQUENCE-Power of. only as elected to tighten the ropes, and hoist the sails, and stand to the rudder. Let a man search faithfully; let him see that when Scripture describes Christians as elected, it is as elected to faith, as elected to sanctification, as elected to obedience; and the doctrine of election will be nothing but a stimulus to effort. It cannot act as a soporific. I shall cut away the boat, and let drive all human devices, and gird myself, amid the fierceness of the tempest, to steer the shattered vessel into port. Melvill.

ELOQUENCE-Abuse of.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin-man's bell. Carlyle.

ELOQUENCE-Affectation in.

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself, than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. Lord Herbert. ELOQUENCE-Depth and Danger of. Some, who the depths of eloquence have found,

In that unnavigable stream were drown'd.

ELOQUENCE-of Lovers.

ELOQUENCE-of Nature.

Dryden.

I'll try

To change the soldier's to the lover's style, Use all the strongest eloquence that art, Or the sharp anguish of my soul, can frame, To plead my passion and promote my love. Beckingham. Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Sterne.

The following is extracted from a late speech before the governor of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, by the chief of the Menomonis. It has all the figurative energy of Indian eloquence" Brother, we see your councilhouse, it is large and beautiful; but the council-house of the red man is much larger: the earth is the floor, the clear sky is the roof, a blazing fire is the chair of the chief orator, and the green grass the seats of our chiefs you speak by papers, and record your words in books; but we speak from our hearts, and memory records our words in the hearts of our people."

In whom does it not enkindle passion? Its matchless excellence is applicable everywhere, in all classes of life. The rich and the poor experience the effects of its magic influence. It excites the soldier to the charge and animates him to the conflict. The miser it teaches to weep over his error, and to despise the degrading betrayer of his peace. It convicts the infidel of his depravity, dispels the cloud that obscures his mind, and leaves it pure and elevated. The guilty are living monuments of its exertion, and the innocent hail it as the vindicator of its violated rights and the preserver of its sacred reputation. How ofteu in the courts of justice does the criminal behold his arms unshackled, his character freed from suspicion, and his future left open before him with all its hopes of honours, station and dignity! And how often, in the halls of legislation, does Eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority-fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys: all power it defies. Melvill

Whene'er he speaks, Heaven, how the list'ning throng

Dwell on the melting music of his tongue! His arguments are the emblems of his mien, Mild, but not faint, and forcing, though serene: And when the power of eloquence he'd try, Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. Garth.

ELOQUENCE-Seductiveness of.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that, like flakes of feather'd snow, They melted as they fell. Dryden. ELOQUENCE-not mere Talking.

It is but poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. Sir Joshua Reynolds. ELOQUENCE AND SONG-Power of. Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

ELYSIUM-Beauties of

Milton.

Loose breezes on their airy pinions play,
And with refreshing sweets perfume the way.
Cold streams through flowery meadows gently
glide,

And as they pass, their painted brooks they chide.

These blissful plains no blight nor mildews fear; The flowers ne'er fade, and shrubs are myrtles here. Garth.

EMOTIONS AND SENSATIONS.

EMULATION.

EMOTIONS AND SENSATIONS- EMPLOYMENT-Advantage of.
Classification of.

Agreeable emotions and sensations may be divided into three orders;-those of pleasure, which refer to the senses; those of harmony, which refer to the mind; and those of happiress, which are the natural result of a union between harmony and pleasure; the former being exercised in virtue, the latter in temperance. Harmony is principally enjoyed by those men who possess, what has analogically been termed, taste; which Mr. Melmoth defines, "that universal sense of beauty, which every man in some degree possesses, rendered more exquisite by genius, and more correct by cultiTation." "It is very remarkable," says Dr. Akenside, "that the disposition of the moral powers is always similar to that of the imagination;-that those who are most inclined to admire prodigious and sublime objects in the physical world, are also most inclined to applaud examples of fortitude and heroic virtue in the moral;-while those who are charmed rather with the delicacy and sweetness of colours, forms, and sounds, never fail in like manner to yield the preference to the softer scenes of virtue, and the sympathies of a domestic life." Exciting a love of true glory, and an admiration of every nobler virtue. Taste exalts the affections, and purifies our passions;-clothes a private life in white, and a public one in purple. Adding a new feature, as it were, to the pomp, the bloom, and the

exuberance of Nature, it enables the mind to illumine what is dark, and to colour what is faded; giving a lighter yellow to the topaz, a more celestial blue to the sapphire, and a deeper crimson to the ruby; it imparts a higher brilliance to the diamond, and a more transparent purple to the amethyst.

Bearing a price which only the heart and the imagination can estimate, and being the mother of a thousand chaste desires and a thousand

secret hopes:-Taste strews flowers in the
paths of literature and science, and, breathing
inexpressive sounds, and picturing celestial
forms, qualifies the hour of sorrow, by inducing
that secret sense of cheerfulness, which, in its
operation,

Refines the soft, and swells the strong;
And joining nature's general song,
Through many a varying tone unfolds,
The harmony of human souls. Mrs. Chapone.

EMPIRE-Extended.

Extended empire, like expanded gold,
Exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour.
Johnson.

Assure yourself, that employment is one of the best remedies for the disappointments of life. Let even your calamity have the liberal effect of occupying you in some active virtue, so shall you in a manner remember others, till you forget yourself. Pratt. |

EMPLOYMENT-Happiness of.

To be employed is to be happy.

Gray.

Employment is nature's physican, and is essential to human happiness. Galen. EMPLOYMENT-Rational.

Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle. Jerome.

EMPLOYMENT and Repose.

When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort th'
hour

Of night, and all things now retired to rest
Mind us of like repose, since God hath set
Labour and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive; and the timely dew of sleep
Now falling with soft slumbrous weight inclines
Our eyelids; other creatures all day long
Rove idle unemployed, and less need rest:
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of heaven on all his ways.
To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our present labour, to reform
Yon flowery harbours, yonder alleys green,
Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown,
That mock our scant manuring, and require
More hands than ours to lop their wanton
growth:

Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,
That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth,
Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease;
Meanwhile, as Nature wiils, night bids us rest.

EMPLOYMENT-Variety of.

Milton.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues. Hannah More.

EMULATION-Difficulty of.

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. Richter.

EMULATION-Laudable.

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation (or laudable ambition) is

EMULATION.

actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced; and, especially in religious concerns, it is so far from being pride for a man to wish himself spiritually better, that it is highly commendable, and what we are strongly exhorted to in many parts of the Bible.

Bishop Hall.

ENCAMPMENT-of an Army.

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,

The hum of either army stilly sounds
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch;
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umber'd face.
Steed threatens steed in high and boastful
neighings,

Piercing the night's dull ear. Hark, from the tents,

The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With clink of hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation; while some,
Like sacrifices, by their fires of watch,
With patience sit, and inly ruminate
The morning's danger.

ENDURANCE.

Shakspeare.

Prolong'd endurance tames the bold. Byron. ENEMY-The Thoughtless.

"No one's enemy but his own," happens generally to be the enemy of everybody with whom he is in relation. The leading quality that goes to make this character is a reckless imprudence and a selfish pursuit of selfish enjoyments, independent of all consequences. "No one's enemy but his own," runs rapidly through his means; calls in a friendly way on his friends, for bonds, bail, and securities; involves his nearest kin, leaves his wife a beggar, and quarters his orphans upon the public; and after enjoying himself to his last guinea, entails a life of dependence upon his progeny, and dies in the ill-understood reputation of harmless folly, which is more injurious to society than some positive crimes.

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ENGLAND.

is called in to their aid. They cauterize their wounds, they close their chinks, they bandage the lame branches. The country where coals are burned is a lucky one for trees. In every country artists make more of nature than we can believe. They cannot withdraw themselves from that which surrounds them. When we come to live in a country, we begin to perceive that the local artists have properly represented it. That which at a distance seemed full of singularity, a mixture of ridiculous errors and false interpretations, we our selves become eye-witnesses of. In England, in this island, which is almost like a great ship afloat, the atmosphere is always wintry and a little opaque; but when we walk in the country at a distance from the towns; when we see the sun, piercing this sea vapour, irradiate a healthy and vigorous vegetation, illuminate the matted branches of trees growing in perfect liberty, and then at its setting, burning between masses of cloud, always interposed between the blue ether and the English sun, we learn to comprehend the brusque contrasts and almost crude oppositions, common to English landscape-painters. In the same way, when we have attended English meetings and fêtes, among ornaments, colours, and costumes the most discordant, we cease to be astonished at the taste and style of English painters in general. Burger.

ENGLAND-Blessings of.

Oh, England! decent abode of comfort, and cleanliness, and decorum! Oh, blessed asylum of all that is worth having upon earth! Oh, sanctuary of religion and of liberty for the whole civilised world! It is only in viewing the state of other countries, that thy advantages can be duly estimated! May thy sons, who have "fought the good fight,” but know and guard what they possess in thee! Oh, land of happy firesides, and cleanly hearths, and domestic peace; of filial piety, and parental love, and connubial joy; "the cradle of heroes, the school of sages, the temple of law, the altar of faith, the asylum of innocence," the bulwark of private security and of public honour!

"Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell 'd, fondly turns to thee !” Clarke.

ENGLAND-Description of.
That pale, that white-faced shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring
tides,

And coops from other lands her islanders, Even till that England, hedged in with the main.

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It is not to be thought of that the flood
Of British freedom, which to the open sea
Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity
Hath flowed, with pomp of waters unwithstood,
Roused though it be full often to a mood
Which spurns the check of salutary bands,
That this most famous stream in bogs and
sands

Should perish! and to evil and to good
Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung
Armoury of the invincible knights of old:
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals
hold

Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung

Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. Wordsworth.

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The offspring of these roofs deserve a land Thus rich and fair, men may be proud indeed,

'Mid all their history's long and glorious band, To own the blood of England's peasant seed. Lowly, yet strong, these brown-thatch'd cabins stand,

And such the spirits of the sons they breed. Elbert.

ENGLAND-Invincibility of.

England never did (nor never shall) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them: Nought shall make us rue,

If England to itself do rest but true.

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They passed, then, from the high road into a long succession of green pastures, through which a straight public path conducted them into one of those charming lanes never seen out of this bowery England,—a lane deep sunk amidst high banks, with overhanging oaks, and quivering ash, gnarled with elm, vivid holly, and shaggy brambles, with wild convolvulus and creeping woodbine forcing sweet life through all. Sometimes the banks opened abruptly, leaving patches of greensward, and peeps through still sequestered gates, or over moss-grown pales, into the park or paddock of some rural thane; new villas or old manor-houses on lawny uplands, knitting, as it were, together England's feudal memories with England's freeborn hopes-the old land with its young people; for England is so old, and the English are so young!

ENGLAND-A Text for.

Bulwer Lytton.

There is not a chapter in all the book we profess to believe, more specially and directly written for England than the second of Habakkuk, and I never in all my life heard one of its practical texts preached from. I suppose the clergymen are all afraid, and know that their flocks, while they will sit quite politely to hear syllogisms out of the Epistle to the Romans, would get restive directly if they ever pressed a practical text home to them. But we should have no mercantile catastrophes, and no distressful pauperism, if we only read often, and took to heart, those plain words:" Yea, also, because ho is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and cannot be satisfied,-shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against

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Oftentimes, in contemplating the history of this empire; the greatness of its power; the peculiarity of its condition; its vast extent, one arm resting on the East, the other on the West; its fleets riding proudly on every sea; its name and majesty on every shore; the individual energy of its people; their noble institutions, and, above all, their reformed faith-we are tempted to think that Heaven's high Providence has yet in store for us some high and arduous calling. The long-suffering of the Almighty invites us to repentance; evils that have engulfed whole nations, suspended over us for a while, and then averted, exhibit the mercy-and the probable termination of it:

"Death his dart

Shook, but delayed to strike-"

Open, therefore, your treasury, erect churches, send forth the ministers of religion; reverse the conduct of the enemy of mankind, and sow wheat among the tares-all hopes are groundless, all legislation weak, without this alpha and omega; it will give content instead of bitterness, raise purity from corruption, and life from the dead"-but there

time to be lost.

no

ENGLISH.

boats; and when you get home for a quiet
fortnight, lie on your backs in the paternal
garden, surrounded by the last batch of
books of Mudie's library, and half-bored to
death. Well-well! I know it has its good
side.
All I say is, you don't

know your own woods and fields. Though you
may be chock full of science, not one in twenty
of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or
bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on
the down three miles off; or what the bog-
bean and wood-sage are good for. And as for
the country legends, the stories of the old
gable-ended farm-houses, the place where the
last skirmish was fought in the civil wars,
where the parish butts stood, where the last
highwayman turned to bay, where the last
ghost was laid by the parson-they're gone
out of date altogether. Now, in my time,
when we got home by the old coach, which
put us down at the four cross-roads, and had
been driven off by the family coachman, sing-
ing dulce domum at the top of our voices, here
we were, fixtures, till Black Monday came
round. We had to cut our own amusements
within a walk or a ride of home. And so we
got to know all the country-folk, and their
ways, and songs, and stories by heart; and
went over the woods, and fields, and hills,
again and again, till we made friends of them
We were Berkshire, cr Gloucestershire,
or Yorkshire boys; and you're young cosmopo-
lites, belonging to all counties and no counties.
No doubt, it's all right; I dare say it is. This
is the day of large views and glorious humanity,
and all that; but I wish back-sword play had
not gone out in the Vale of White Horse, and
that the Great Western had not carried away
Alfred's Hill for an embankment. Hughes.

all.

ENGLISH-Individuality of the.

Let us catch at this proffered opportunity, which may never return: betake ourselves with eagerness to do the first works; and, while we have yet strength, and dominion, and wealth, and power, "break off our sins by righteousness, and our iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening The English are to be distinguished from the of our tranquillity. Americans by greater independence of personal habits. Not only the institutions, but the ENGLAND-should be Studied by the physical condition of our own country, has a

Young.

Chalmers.

Oh, Young England, Young England! You who are born into these racing railroad times, when there's a great exhibition or some monster sight every year, and you can get over a couple of thousand miles for three pound ten in a five weeks' holiday, why don't you know more of your own birthplaces? You are all in the ends of the earth, it seems to me, as soon as you get your necks out of the education collar; going round Ireland with a return ticket in a fortnight; dropping your copies of Tennyson on the tops of Swiss mountains, or pulling down the Danube in Oxford racing

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tendency to reduce us all to the same level of usages. The steamboats, the overgrown taverns, the speculative character of the enterprises, and the consequent disposition to do all things in common, aid the tendency of the system in bringing about such a result. England a man dines by himself, in a room filled with other hermits; he eats at his leisure; drinks his wine in silence; reads the paper by the hour; and in all things encourages his individuality, and insists on his particular humours. The American is compelled to submit to a common rule; he eats when others eat; sleeps when others sleep; and he is lucky indeed if

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