not the merit of common truth and honesty. He is unjust to his generals; egotistic and monopolizing; meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte; intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends the new pride of his throne. 3. He is a boundless liar. The official paper, his Moniteurs," and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed; and worse, he sat, in his premature old age, in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters, and giving to history a theatrical éclat. 4. Like all Frenchmen, he has a passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation. His star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French. "I must dazzle and astonish. If I were to give the liberty of the press, my power could not last three days." 5. To make a great noise is his favorite design. "A great reputation is a great noise: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages." His doctrine of immortality is simply fame. His theory of influence is not flattering. 6. "There are two levers for moving men,-interest and fear. Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it. Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers: perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too, but why? Because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute, and I believe the fellow never shed a tear. For my part, I know very well that I have no true friends. As long as I continue to be what I am, I may have as many pretended friends as I please. Leave sensibility to women; but men should be firm in heart and purpose, or they should have nothing to do with war and government." 7. He was thoroughly unscrupulous. He would steal, slander, assassinate, drown, and poison, as his interest dictated. He had no generosity, but mere vulgar hatred. He was intensely selfish; he was perfidious; he cheated at cards; he was a prodigious gossip; and opened letters; and delighted in his infamous police; and rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that "he knew everything;" and interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women; and listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street, incognito. 8. His manners were coarse. He treated women with low familiarity. He had the habit of pulling their ears, and pinching their cheeks, when he was in good humor, and of pulling the ears and whiskers of men, and of striking and horseplay with them, to his last days. 9. It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or, at least, that he was caught at it. In short, when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor, you were not dealing with a gentleman at last, but with an impostor and a rogue; and he fully deserves the epithet of a sort of Scamp Jupiter. LANGUAGE STUDY. I. Write the analysis of: reverse (vertere); involve (volvere); dictate (dicere); intercept (capere); impostor (ponere). II. In paragraph 6 are three simple sentences, three complex sentences, and three compound sentences: select each. III. To which class of composition does this piece belong? (See Definition 19.) Emerson is fond of short and pithy sentences rounded like bullets: point out examples. Point out also examples in the extract from Napoleon. 63.- Golden Thoughts. [TEACHER'S NOTE.—It is suggested as a profitable exercise, that to each pupil be assigned one of these "Golden Thoughts," to be memorized, and that the class be called on to repeat the couplets and stanzas each the "Thought" assigned him.] 1. Count that day lost whose low-descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. 2. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 3 Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean in my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. 4. The heights by great men reached and kept 5. Small service is true service while it lasts; 6. Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. Fail! - fail? In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves 7. He prayeth well who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast; 8. Teach me to feel another's woe, That mercy I to others show,- 64.-Glimpses of Science. dūe, directly, exactly. THE WINDS. māk'ing, moving, tending. pāçe, rate of motion. spent, worn-out, exhausted. 1. How is it that the wind blows? What makes the air move? You know the globe, the model of our earth. I dare say there is one in the schoolroom. You know the two poles, the north pole and the south pole, where it is always cold winter. You know the equator, between the two tropics, where it is always hot summer. 2. Now, remember that hot air is lighter than cold air: for hot air expands, that is, swells, and spreads its atoms apart, and becomes more spongy the hotter it grows; while cold air contracts, that is, shrinks, and closes its atoms together, and becomes more solid the colder it grows. 3. But if hot air is lighter than cold, then the hotter it is the more it must rise into the sky, if it can; and the colder it is the more it must sink toward the earth. In the hot tropics the air must be always swelling and rising, while at the cold poles it must be always shrinking and falling. And what will happen then? The hot air from the tropics must always be flowing northward to the north pole, and southward toward the south pole, to fill up the space |