Por. Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?
Shy. I am content.

Por. Clerk, draw a deed of gift.

Shy.

pray you give me leave to go from hence:

I am not well: send the deed after me,

And I will sign it.

Duke. Get thee gone, but do it.

SHAKSPEARE.

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SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Ass: L. as'inus; h., asinine. . . . Carrion : It. carogna; L. ca'ro, car'nis, flesh. Dram: a contraction of drachma; It. dramma, a very small quantity of a thing; fr. the Gr. drach'mě, a handful. . . . Mule: L. mu'lus. Palate: L. pala'tum, the upper part or roof of the mouth. . . . Pause: L. pau'sa, a halt or stop.

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Pay: L. L. pa'co, I satisfy, I pay; fr. L. pa'co, I pacify; fr. pax, pa'cis, peace: v. PaCIFIC.... Poverty: F. pauvreté; fr. the L. pauper'tas; fr. pau'per, poor. Sabbath: Gr. Sab'baton; fr. the Hebrew Shabath, to rest from labor. Tarry fr. the L. tar'do, I delay; fr. tar'dus, slow.

XC.-THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.

I.

Он, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;— Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

II.

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream ;—
'Tis the star-spangled banner! oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

III.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more ?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution; No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of death and the gloom of the grave;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

IV.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation; Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that has made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,

And this be our motto, In God is our trust.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.

EARLY RISING.

FALSELY luxurious, will not man awake,
And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy
The cool, the fragrant and the silent hour
To meditation due and sacred song?

'Wildered and tossing through distempered dreams,
Who would in such a gloomy state remain
Longer than nature craves, when every Muse
And every blooming pleasure wait without
To bless the wildly-devious morning walk?

THOMSON.

XCI. THE STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

1. How to give habits of enterprise, patience, accurate observation, above all, how to develop the physical powers without engendering brutality and coarseness-are questions becoming daily more puzzling, while they need daily more to be solved in an age of enterprise, travel and emigration like the present. Without undervaluing other branches of science, it may be safely affirmed that natural history, or the history of the natural products of the earth, is capable of affording more to interest and instruct, more to refresh and relax, the well-disposed mind, on a very slight acquaintance with it, than any other pursuit.

2. Not a step can the learner advance in it but he meets with wonders that had never entered into his conception. The more he knows, the more he desires to know, and the further he advances, the more does he perceive how much delight is yet in store for him. The beneficent Creator of all has not only ordained that every part of his works should be good, should be adapted to answer its designed end and should contribute, in the highest degree of which it is capable, to the well-being of his creatures, but he has made everything "beautiful in its season."

3. He has so formed the mind of man that it derives pleasure from the contemplation of the glorious works around us. And it is, therefore, a worthy employment of our faculties to encourage this pleasure, and to place it upon a more solid and extended foundation than that afforded by the mere forms and colors of objects, however beautiful these may be. One great source of the pleasure derived from the inquiry into the structure and mode of existence of the living beings around us arises from the adaptation of their parts to each other and of the whole to the place it has to occupy.

4. The philosopher who studies the motions of the heavenly bodies, and the station of this earth among them, traces these adaptations no less clearly, but it requires profound and longcontinued study to be able to comprehend them aright. The

naturalist, however, can discern them, with far less research, in every plant that grows, in every animal that breathes, and he meets with a constant variety which prevents him from growing weary of the pursuit. Yet it is my conviction that the young are too frequently kept in ignorance of the wonders and beauties around them; and, whilst encouraged to learn many languages and read many books, they remain unacquainted with the bright volume of creation the pages of which are daily and hourly unrolled before them, "written," to use the impressive words of Lord Bacon, "in the only language which hath gone forth to the ends of the world unaf fected by the confusion of Babel."

5. If boys were acquainted with the wonderful structure of insects, and of other animals low in the scale, they would not be found sticking pins into flies or tormenting cats; nor, when men, would they treat those noble domestic animals, the horse and the ox, with cruelty. The girl who has learned to derive enjoyment from observing the operations and watching the metamorphoses of insects, who knows their history and is conversant with their structure, habits and curious economy, and can tell you even of the parasites that feed on them, will mark these circumstances in animals higher in the scale and, ascending to her own species, will learn also the elevation of her own nature.

6. The young person who, in strolling through the fields and woods, can tell you the name of every wild flower and every bird you see, can inform you as to its habits, the time of its appearance and in what regions of the earth it is to be found, possesses a fund of useful and entertaining knowledge which must lend a charm to every ramble, and make his or her society prized by all who have souls to recognize and admire the manifold indications in creation of providential bounty and omniscient skill. If you seek an immunity from unprofitable day-dreaming, learn to create in your mind an interest in these natural facts.

7. The just relations of all created things to one another prove them to be the work of one almighty Designer. The

great globe may be considered as a museum, furnished forth with the works of the Supreme Being, man being placed in the midst of it, as alone capable of comprehending and valuing it. And if this be true, as certainly it is, what then becomes man's duty? Moralists and divines, with Nature herself, testify that the purpose of so much beauty and perfection being made manifest to man is that he may study and celebrate the works of God. If we have no vital and intelligent faith in the things which are seen, how shall we believe those that are not seen?

8. A happy sensibility to the beauties of nature should therefore be actively cherished and developed by the young. It engages them to contemplate the Creator in his wonderful works; it purifies and harmonizes the soul and prepares it for moral and intellectual discipline; it supplies a never-failing source of amusement; it contributes largely to bodily health; and as a strict analogy subsists between material and moral beauty, it leads the heart by an easy transition from the one to the other, and thus recommends virtue for its transcendent loveliness and makes vice appear the object of aversion and pity.

SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Conception: L. concep'tio; fr. concip'io, concep'tum, to take hold of; con, intens., and cap'io, cap'tum, to take; h., ac-cept, anti-cipate (an'ti=an'te, before), capable, capacious, caption, captious, captivate, captive, cater, con-ceit, de-ceive, de-ception, e-man-cipate (e, out of, mancip'ium, a possession, a slave; fr. man'us, the hand, cap'io, I take), ex-cept, im-per-ceptible, inter-cept, oc-cupy, parti-cipate (pars, par'tis, a part), perceive, per ception, pre-cept, prince (pri'mus, first, and capio, prin-cipal, receive, re-cipe (take or receive; imperative mood of recip'io), sus-ceptible, etc.... Conviction: L. convictio; fr. convin'co, convic'tum, to completely conquer; fr. con, intens., and vin'co, vic'tum, to conquer; h., con-vince, e-vince (to prevail, to prove), e-vict, in-vincible, pro-vince (lit., a conquered country), vanquish, victory. . . . Immunity: L. immu'nitas, exemption from public service; fr. im — in and mu'nus, mu'neris, a service or office, a gift: mu'nis, ready to serve; h., com-mon (L. commu'nis), com-municate L. (commu'nico, communica'tum, to divide a thing with one), com-munion, com-munity, muni-cipal (fr. municip'ium, a free city; fr. mu'nis and cap'io, I take), muni-ficent (lit., gift-making), re-muneration. . . . Parasite: Gr. parasitos, one who eats at another's expense at table; fr. par'a, beside, and sit eo, I feed; fr. sit'os, wheat, food. Stomach: Gr. stom'achos, the alimentary canal; fr. stom'a, a mouth.