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and has discharged truly his duty to God and you will find that such a man, through force of this delusion, generally looks down with spiritual pride upon every other man who has less affectation of piety, though, perhaps, ten times more real honesty than himself.

"This likewise is a sore evil under the sun: and, I believe, there is no one mistaken principle, which, for its time, has wrought more serious mischiefs.

66 -For a general proof of this, examine the history of the Romish church."

[Well, what can you make of that? cried Dr. Slop,]"see what scenes of cruelty, murder, rapine, bloodshed,”. [They may thank their own obstinacy, cried Dr. Slop]have all been sanctified by religion not strictly governed by morality.

"In how many kingdoms of the world has the crusading sword of this misguided Saint-errant, spared neither age, nor merit, nor sex, nor condition ?—and, as he fought under the banners of a religion which set him loose from justice and humanity, he shewed none; mercilessly trampled upon both, -heard neither the cries of the unfortunate, nor pitied their distresses."

[I have been in many a battle', 'an't please your honour, quoth Trim, sighing, but never in so melancholy a one as this. I would not have drawn à trigger in it against these poor souls, to have been made a general officer. Why, what do you understand of the affair? said Dr. Slop, (looking towards Trim, with something more of.contempt than the Corporal's honest heart deserved)-What do you know, friend, about this battle you talk of?-I know, replied Trim, that I never refused quarter in my life to any man who cried out for it:-but to a woman or a child, continued Trim, before I would level my musket at them, I would lose my life a thousand times. Here's a crown for thee, Trim, to drink with Obadiah to-night, quoth my uncle Toby. -God bless your honour, replied Trim,—I had rather these poor women and children had it. Thou art an honest fellow, quoth my uncle Toby.-My father nodded his head, as much as to say, and so he is.]

LESSON CLXIX.

Dirge of Al'aric, the Visigoth,

Who stormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and was afterwards buried in the channel of the river Busentius, the water of which had been diverted from its course that the body might be interred.

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WHEN I am dead, no pageant train

Shall waste their sorrows at my bier,
Nor worthless pomp of homage vain,
Stain it with hypocritick tear;
For I will die as I did live,
Nor take the boon I cannot give.
Ye shall not raise a marble bust

Upon the spot where I repose;
Ye shall not fawn before my dust,
In hollow circumstance of woes:
Nor sculptured clay, with lying breath,
Insult the clay that moulds beneath.

Ye shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil

Lay down the wreck of Power to rest;
Where man can boast that he has trod
On him, that was "the scourge of God."*.
But ye the mountain stream shall turn,
And lay its secret channel bare,
And hollow, for your sovereign's urn,
A resting-place for ever there:
Then bid its everlasting springs
Flow back upon the King of Kings ;'
And never be the secret said,
Until the deep give up his dead.

My gold and silver ye shall fling

Back to the clods, that gave them birth
The captured crowns of many a king,
The ransom of a conquered earth:
For e'en though dead will I control
The trophies of the capitol.

But when beneath the mountain tide,
Ye've laid your monarch down to rot,
* See the note on page 390.

EVERETT.

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Ye shall not rear upon its side

Pillar or mound to mark the spot;
For long enough the world has shook
Beneath the terrours of my look;
And now that I have run my race,
The astonished realms shall rest a space.
My course was like a river deep,
And from the northern hills I burst,
Across the world in wrath to sweep,
And where I went the spot was cursed,
Nor blade of grass again was seen
Where Alaric and his hosts had been.*

See how their haughty barriers fail
Beneath the terrour of the Goth,
Their iron-breasted legions quail
Before my ruthless sabaoth,
And low the Queen of empires kneels,
And grovels at my chariot-wheels.

Not for myself did I ascend

In judgment my triumphal car;
'Twas God alone on high did send
The avenging Scythian to the war,
To shake abroad, with iron hand,
The appointed scourge of his command.
With iron hand that scourge I reared
O'er guilty king and guilty realm;
Destruction was the ship I steered,

And vengeance sat upon the helm,
When, launched in fury on the flood,
I ploughed my way through seas of blood,
And in the stream their hearts had spilt
Washed out the long arrears of guilt.

Across the everlasting Alp

I poured the torrent of my powers,
And feeble Cæsars shrieked for help
In vain within their seven-hilled towers;
I quenched in blood the brightest gem
That glittered in their diadem,
And struck a darker, deeper die
In the purple of their majesty,

* See the note on page 390.

And bade my northern banners shine
Upon the conquered Palatine.

My course is run, my errand done :
I to Him from whom I came;
go
But never yet shall set the sun

Of glory that adorns my name;
And Roman hearts shall long be sick,
When men shall think of Alaric.

My course is run, my errand done-
But darker inisters of fate
Impatient, round the eternal throne,
And in the caves of vengeance, wait;
And soon mankind shall blench away
Before the name of At'tila.*

LESSON CLXX.

Lines written on visiting the beautiful burying-ground at New Haven.-CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE.

O! WHERE are they, whose all that earth could give,
Beneath these senseless marbles disappeared?
Where even, they, who taught these stones to grieve;
The hands that hewed them, and the hearts that reared
Such the poor bounds of all that's hoped or feared,
Within the griefs and smiles of this short day!

Here sunk the honoured, vanished the endeared;
This the last tribute love to love could pay,

An idle pageant pile to graces passed away.

* At'tila was the king of the Huns, and, for many years, in the first half of the fifth century, was the terrour both of Constantinople and Rome. Not long after the death of Alaric, he invaded the Ro man empire, at the head of half a million of barbarians, and with fire and sword laid waste many of its most fertile provinces. Into the bold sketch of Alaric, which is given in this Dirge, the poet, in the license of his art, has thrown some of the distinguishing features of Attila. It may be well to advise the youthful reader, that, as a matter of sober history, it was Attila, and not Alaric, who used to say that the grass never grew where his horse had trod; and that it was not Alaric, but Attila, who was called the Scourge of God. With this appellation the king of the Huns was so well pleased that he adopted it as one of his titles of honour.

Why deck these sculptured trophies of the tomb?
Why, victims, garland thus the spoiler's fane?
Hope ye by these to avert oblivion's doom;
In grief ambitious, and in ashes vain?
Go, rather, bid the sand the trace retain,
Of all that parted virtue felt and did!

Yet powerless man revõlts at ruin's reign;
Hence blazoned flattery mocks pride's coffin lid;
Hence towered on Egypt's plains the giant pyramid.

Sink, mean memorials of what cannot die!
Be lowly as the relicks ye o'erspread!
Nor lift your funeral forms so gorgeously,
To tell who slumbers in each narrow bed:
I would not honour thus the sainted dead;
Nor to each stranger's careless ear declare

My sacred griefs for joy and friendship fled.
O, let me hide the names of those that were,
Deep in my stricken heart, and shrine them only there!

LESSON CLXXI.

Some account of the character and merits of John Playfair, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edin burgh. JEFFREY.

It has struck many people, we believe, as very extraor dinary, that so eminent a person as Mr. Playfair should have been allowed to sink into his grave in the midst of us, without calling forth almost so much as an attempt to commemorate his merit, even in a common newspaper; and that the death of a man so celebrated and beloved, and at the same time so closely connected with many who could well appreciate and suitably describe his excellencies, should be left to the brief and ordinary notice of the daily obituary. No event of the kind certainly ever excited more general sympathy; and no individual, we are persuaded, will be longer or more affectionately remembered by all the classes of his fellow-citizens: and yet it is to these very circumstances that we must look for an explanation of the apparent neglect with which his memory has been followed.

We beg leave to assure our readers, that it is merely from an anxiety to do something to gratify this natural im

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