= "Der Phædon" on the immortality t us quite as mortal as it found us; mortal itself. Its venerable remains Dorm-eaten trunks, pasted on the lids a matter of thirty pages, except for a rused by worms. But the key to all delssohn is to be sought in the whim- which, in those days, forced Jews ies, under the title of "swine," but Now, in this category of Jew and on." He was certainly liable to toll 7, he was much admired as one who that Mendelssohn, whose learned - father of this Mendelssohn, whose turally, then, it strikes me that, as he synagogue to save appearances, I likewise attended the ttend it. We all three bool and elsewhere. titudes; and, trusting to my own : that Mendelssohn has stolen his There was, in the first chorus of t (and once repeated) that rang to the music of Jubal's lyre, or have All the rest, tried by the deep clamours for the impassioned in horse-leech says, "Give, give," t of the Hebrew chanting that I I advise Mr. Murray, in the event ," to make the chorus sing the elssohn's music, or, which would hire the Handel chorus-singers.— cles. the following, between the he remainder of the para of the borhood, stimulating them by suggestio in witchcraft cropping out in the oldest times within the very shadow of the bui try has existed from the settlement of t have furnished means of education to al in nearly every county, and often in eve of persons, suggested the old horseshoe who had long kept it nailed to the ma death-wound at Trafalgar.-J. M. Buc tury, 21: 409. In the following paragraph, seems to have guided the selectio set down just as they came, by head: N As for Charles Cotton, his "Virgil Tr ron's, and deserves to be so. The famo known to every one in the essay on thing he did. But there are many excell work, despite a strong taint of the m which have been spoken of. And thoug with the hopeless indifference to prosody belated cavaliers, it is noteworthy that h men for centuries to adopt the strict Fre and the like. On the whole, his poetical valued, while he was also dexterous in bethan Literature, p. 385. In the following description, n lected for mention are few in nu with the single purpose of bring wealth: Of the provinces which had been subje the wealthiest was Bengal. No part of advantages both for agriculture and for ing through a hundred channels to the s rich mould which, even under the tropi an English April. The ricefields vield an desolate islands along the sea-coast, overgrown and swarming with deer and tigers, supply t with abundance of salt. The great stream whic at the same time, the chief highway of Easte banks, and on those of its tributary waters, are the most splendid capitals, and the most sacred tyranny of man had for ages struggled in vain a bounty of nature. In spite of the Mussulma Mahratta freebooter, Bengal was known thro Garden of Eden, as the rich kingdom. Its exceedingly. Distant provinces were nourished of its granaries; and the noble ladies of Lor clothed in the delicate produce of its looms. — M p. 51. Paragraphs for criticism by the student will be found in A (3) Proportion. The law of proportion requires, first, th to exhibit fully the purpose and idea o Paragraphs will, therefore, differ in lengt importance and scope of the ideas they trary rules can be given as to the prope graphs. Observing the custom of some of we may safely say that it is not well to paragraph beyond three hundred words. of at least one paragraph-indention on a of a printed book is felt by every reade hand, as Professor Earle says (English "The term paragraph can hardly be app short of three sentences," though skilful w make a paragraph of two sentences, or ever This law requires, secondly, that the det ist, overgrown by noxious vegetation, gers, supply the cultivated districts at stream which fertilizes the soil is, On its way of Eastern commerce. ry waters, are the wealthiest marts, e most sacred shrines of India. The ggled in vain against the overflowing the Mussulman despot and of the ; known through the East as the ingdom. Its population multiplied vere nourished from the overflowing ladies of London and Paris were Macaulay: Lord Clive, its looms. will be found in Appendix A 1. oportion. ires, first, that enough be said and idea of the paragraph. ffer in length according to the ideas they present. No arbito the proper length of paran of some of our best writers, not well to extend a single red words. The advantage ention on almost every page every reader. On the other s (English Prose, p. 212), dly be applied to anything gh skilful writers sometimes ces, or even of one. that the details which make Thirdly, over-amplification and of a simple statement admitted by of the law of proportion. In illustration of the first requ trast the two paragraphs that foll thought is found in the words, " derbolts," and "We only believe thought is not sufficiently illustra and what is said by way of expl character as the proposition it force of the last sentence in th felt at the first reading, unless the word "we." The second p writer, is quoted as an illustrat ment of the law of proportion. We are just so frivolous and skeptical and vile; and yet a man is a fagot of th pour through his system; he is the floo fire; he feels the antipodes and the pol are the extension of his personality. H instrument he is; and a right and per centre of the Copernican system. 'Ti as deep as we live. We do not think awful power than that surface-play w believes in miracles, waits for them, b the orator will decompose his adversa can wither, that the heart's blessing talent; can overcome all odds. From isms flow incessantly to draw great eve ble utilities, a prudent husband, a god deprecate any romance of character; money value, his intellect, his affectio easily convertible into fine chambers, Emerson Essay on Beauty. The artist who is to produce a work manner, and no age, but one through whom the lates, as the common air through his lungs. spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speal Lord to act; that is, he is not to speak his own works, or think his own thoughts, but he is to which the universal mind acts. - Emerson: Ess The two paragraphs cited from Emerson are of about e the thought; the ease of comprehension in the case of the comprehension in the case of the former are fairly attributabl law of proportion in the one and to its neglect in the other. The following will illustrate undue pro a subordinate idea, at the cost of clearness (1) If we would study with profit the history must be constantly on our guard against that delu known names of families, places, and offices nat must never forget that the country of which we re ent country from that in which we live. (2) In science there is a tendency towards perfection. ( being there is a wish to ameliorate his own co two principles have often sufficed, even when co public calamities and by bad institutions, to carry forward. (5) No ordinary misfortune, no ordina will do so much to make a nation wretched, as the of physical knowledge and the constant effort of himself will do to make a nation prosperous. [T showing the vast increase of wealth in England centuries and the reasons for it.] (12) The con change to which the history of the old world furnis taken place in our country. (13) Could the Engla some magical process, set before our eyes, we sho landscape in a hundred or one building in ten th page of details, similar to those in the last sen Macaulay History of England, Vol. I. chap. iii. : The undue prominence given to the second and third senten es independent propositions apparently of equal importance wit ph-Writing. ugh whom the soul of all men circuh his lungs. He must work in the rophet to speak, or an angel of the speak his own words, or do his own , but he is to be an organ through Emerson: Essay on Art. son are of about equal difficulty in regard to m the case of the latter and the difficulty of -e fairly attributable to the observance of the ect in the other. te undue prominence given to of clearness : — ofit the history of our ancestors, we gainst that delusion which the welland offices naturally produce, and of which we read was a very differlive. (2) In every experimental perfection. (3) In every human te his own condition. (4) These even when counteracted by great tions, to carry civilization rapidly une, no ordinary misgovernment, retched, as the constant progress tant effort of every man to better osperous. [Then follows a page n in England during the last six (12) The consequence is that a ld world furnishes no parallel has Could the England of 1685 be, by eyes, we should not know one ling in ten thousand. [Another the last sentence, follows.]— I. chap. iii. nd third sentences, stated (as they are) hat is the subordination might be plainly indicated, and all do ducing immediately after sentence (1) some such st centuries, vast differences are inevitably brought a social principles alone." The following paragraph, which amplification of a self-evident prop writer of it "a string of platitudes Lucidity is one of the chief characteri ought not to be unintelligible. Lucidit time and in all things, in a letter, in a sp Lucidity is not simplicity. A lucid poe A great poet may tax our brains. our wits. We may often have to ask in h but not in despair, What can he mean? Paragraphs for criticism by the student will be one. (4) Sequen The law of sequence, or metho tences be presented in the order w the thought. In narrative paragra in time is usually the best; in d objects in space or according to t pository or argumentative paragra] ing of sentences which proceeds the most forcible and important, w the best method. But usually, th graph as it develops will dictate the sentences. In the following paragraph, a l observed, the second, third, and fo izing the idea of "prerogative," seventh, the idea of "purity." The watchwords of the new gover |