., ib._, i, 325.

"Dryden frequently introduces three or four persons speaking upon the same
subject, each throwing out his own notions separately, without regarding
what is said by the rest."--_Id., ib._, ii, 294.

"Nothing is more studied in Chinese gardens, than to raise wonder and
surprise. Sometimes one is led insensibly into a dark cavern, terminating
unexpectedly in a landscape enriched with all that nature affords the most
delicious."--_Id., ib._, ii, 334.

"The answer to the objection here implied, is obvious, even on the
supposition of the questions put being answered in the
affirmative."--_Prof. Vethake._

"As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
also, he will deliver it; and, passing over, he will preserve
it."--_Isaiah_, xxxi, 5.

"Here, by the bonds of nature feebly held,
Minds combat minds, repelling and repell'd."--_Goldsmith._

"Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled over,
Comes to him where in gore he lay insteeped."--_Shakspeare._

LESSON III.--PARSING.

"Every change in the state of things is considered as an effect, indicating
the agency, characterizing the kind, and measuring the degree, of its
cause."--_Dr. Murray, Hist. of En. L._, i, 179.

"Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
And supper being ended, (the devil having now put it into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,) Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into his hand, and that he had come from God and was
going to God, arose from supper, and laid aside his coat, and, taking a
towel, girded himself: then he poured some water into a basin, and began to
wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was
girded."--See _John_, xiii.

"Spiritual desertion is naturally and judicially incurred by sin. It is the
withdrawal of that divine unction which enriches the acquiescent soul with
moral power and pleasure. The subtraction leaves the mind enervated,
obscured, confused, degraded, and distracted."--HOMO: _N. Y. Observer._

"Giving no offence in any thing, but in all things approving ourselves as
the ministers of God: as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and,
behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always
rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet
possessing all things."--_2 Cor._, vi.

"O may th' indulgence of a father's love,
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