Lesson 458.

The efficiency and usefulness of a liberal education are dwarfed, unless developed under the influence of proper decorum. Let this transient pageant be but the presage of the more substantial triumph. Pursuant to adjournment, the Senate assembled. That popular delegate to the national convention is attached to the dominant faction.

Let your apparel be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature, rather than to procure admiration. Prying curiosity is indelicate, even though the victim be your most intimate friend.

Be not tedious in discourse; make not many digressions. Nothing so effectually indicates the well-bred man as his manner of recognizing his fellow-men. Do not inflict upon society another of that disreputable and dangerous species called gossipers.

When writing a letter asking information, always inclose an envelope addressed and stamped for a reply.

1 mo seer

Lesson 461.

The dauntless chivalry of the Emerald Isle and the courageous Italian volunteers gallantly advanced in the face of a fierce cannonade, captured the redoubt, and scaled the battlements of the citadel. To the traveler belongs piquancy of conversation, liberality of view, and charity of judgment. Simplicity of conduct and manners is unquestionable evidence of sound sense and correct taste.

Abettors propose; accessories assist; accomplices execute. A banquet is a splendid feast, attended with pomp and state: we give an informal entertainment to our friends and equals. Servitude, slavery, and bondage rise in degree. A miscellany is a mixture applicable only to intellectual subjects. An alliance between families and countries; a coalition between persons and parties. Lassitude is faintness; languor, exhaustion of strength. Nutriment and sustenance are related as cause and effect. Pride makes us esteem ourselves: vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

Lesson 463.

"The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity." "The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity." "Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration." "Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness." "Cleanliness is next to godliness."

$809 109

14

Lesson 464.

Draft.

[Write the entire lesson carefully.]

Baltimore, Ned., Jan. 16, 1884. Ten days after sight pay to the order of Arthur W. Edmunds, Eight Hundred Wine and Dollars, value received, and charge

of

14

100

Lawrence D. Henry.

Jo Leach, Shewell, &. Sanborn,
Boston, Mass.

Lesson 465.

Satire and irony are the most ill-natured kinds of wit. Burlesque is a species of humor. Genius creates; talent appropriates and executes. He is a man of clear discernment, acute penetration, and sound judgment. Belief is speculative; faith and trust are operative. A complaint may be frivolous; an accusation false. The young require frequent admonitions; the ignorant and self-deluded, solemn warnings; the inexperienced, timely cautions. But admonitions are too often rejected, warnings despised, and cautions slighted. Freedom is personal and private; liberty is public.

Lesson 466.

We contradict an assertion; we deny a fact. Angry words provoke; if often repeated, they exasperate. To swerve is to deviate from the right path. Impurity contaminates; that which is vile in a natural sense defiles, in a moral sense, pollutes; what is contagious corrupts; corruption will taint other things. To commend, to praise, to applaud, to extol, rise in degree. We indulge a disposition; we yield to an inclination. All minds may be amused; the most volatile are diverted; the most reflective entertained.

Lesson 467.

There are but few extraordinary things; many things are remarkable. Talkative, loquacious, and garrulous have nearly the same meaning. Bad company is pernicious to the morals; confinement is hurtful to the health; noxious insects wound; noisome vapors produce disorders. Unhappy is applied to persons; wretched and miserable to persons and things. Expedient, essential, and requisite are modes of relative necessity. The garden is adjacent (lies near) to the house; the fields are adjoining to each other; the houses are contiguous (touch). All stout men are not corpulent (fat).

Lesson 468.

Disposition is permanent and settled; temper is transitory and fluctuating. Sagacity is natural acuteness. A falsehood or a lie is an intentional untruth. Truth belongs to the thing; veracity, to the person. Placidity is more of a natural gift than serenity, which may be acquired. Damage is the injury that takes from the value of a thing. A calamity is a great disaster or a dreadful misfortune. Torture is an excess of torment. Economy implies management; frugality, temperance.

Lesson 469.

Certain is opposed to dubious; sure, to wavering; secure, to dangerous. That act was laudable, or praiseworthy. The circumstances are critical; the situation dangerous. Powerful, potent, and mighty rise in degree. Ancient and antique are opposed to the modern; the antiquated, to the customary and established; the old-fashioned, to the fashionable; the obsolete, to the current. Frightful, terrible, and horrible rise in meaning. The becoming consists of an exterior that is pleasing; the decent has a moral quality.

Lesson 470.

Sullenness shows itself in reserve; moroseness, in harshness of expression. We seek for the opportunity; the occa sion comes unsought. Regard is affection blended with esteem. Anecdotes serve to amuse men; stories, to amuse children. An account may be false or true; a narrative may be clear or confused; a description may be lively or dull; a tale is fictitious. Brightness may be obscured; luster may be tarnished; splendor and brilliancy may be diminished. Promptness and aptness are species of readiness.