A Study in Verse.—To use your ear a little to English verse, and to make you attend to the sense, too, I have transposed the words of the following lines; which I would have you put in their proper order, and send me in your next:
"Life consider cheat a when 'tis all I
Hope the fool'd deceit men yet with favor
Repay will to-morrow trust on think and
Falser former day to-morrow's than the
Worse lies blest be shall when and we says it
Hope new some possess'd cuts off with we what."
[This is curious, and truly no bad way of teaching a child the structure of verse. The citation, a fine one, is from Dryden:
"When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat,
Yet fool'd with hope men favor the deceit."
The reader may puzzle out the rest.]
Virtue Discouraged.—If six hundred citizens
of Athens gave in the name of any one Athenian,
written upon an oyster-shell (from whence it is
called ostracism), that man was banished Athens
for ten years. On one hand, it is certain, that a free
people cannot be too careful or jealous of their liberty;
and it is certain, too, that the love and applause
of mankind will always attend a man of eminent
and distinguished virtue; and, consequently,
they are more likely to give up their liberties to such
