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shall mantle in his cheek,--the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of Lafay

ette.

5. Yet we, too, and our children, in life, and after death, shall claim for our own. you You are ours by that more than patriotic self-devotion, with which you flew to the aid of our fathers at the crisis of their fate.-Ours, by the long series of years in which you have cherished us in your regard.—Ours, by that unshaken sentiment of gratitude for your services which is a portion of our inheritance.-Ours, by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for the residue of time, with the name of Washington.

6. At the painful moment of separation, we derive comfort from the reflection, that wherever you may be,-even to the last pulsations of your heart, our country will be ever present to your affections; and a cheering consolation assures us, that we are not called to sorrow most of all, that we shall see your face no more.

7. We shall fondly indulge the pleasing anticipation of beholding you again; and, in the mean time, in the name and behalf of the people of the United States, and at a loss only for language to give utterance to that feeling of attachment with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of one man, I bid you a reluctant, but an affectionate farewell.

SOLIDS. LESSON 31.

Cylinders. A cylinder is a round, solid body, resembling, in shape, the joint of a stove-pipe. It is formed by the revolution of a rectangle round one of its sides;-hence, it has equal and circular bases. Its solidity may be found by the following RULE. Multiply the area of either base, by the given length of the cylinder, and the product will be the answer. Thus:The diameter of a granate pillar is 15 inches, and its length is 13 ft. 6 inches; what is its cubic contents?

1.25x1.251.5625X.7854-1.2271875, area of the base. Then, 1.2271875 X 13.5 16.56703125, Ans.

OBS. 1. The superficial contents of the cylinder may be found by the following

RULE. Multiply the circumference of the base by the length of the cylinder, and, to the product, add the area of both ends. Thus:

What is the superficial measure of a cylinder whose diam eter is 15 inches, and whose axis is 13ft. 6in.?

1.25X3.14159=3.9269875, circumference of the base. 3.9269875X13.5=53.01433125, the curve surface. Then, 1.25 X 1.25=1.56257854-1.2271875X22.454375

+53.01433125=55.46870625, Ans.

Prisms. A prism is a body whose bases are equal, similar triangles, squares, or polygons, and their sides all parallel to their opposites. The solid contents of the prism may be found by the following

RULE. Multiply the area of the base by the length of the prism, the product will be the answer.

Thus:

The side of a stick of timber hewed three square, is 12 inches, and its length 10ft.; what is its cubic contents?

Ans. 4.34.

12+12=24+12=36 sum of the sides. (See obs. triangles.

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-18X6109X6=648X6=3898.

And √3888=62.354 nearly, area of the base. 62.354 X10=623.540-144-4.34, Ans.

OBS. 2. The superficial contents of a prism may be found by the following

RULE. Multiply the length of the sides respectively, and to the sum of the products add the area of the ends, the sum will be the answer.

Thus:-

What is the superficial contents of a prism, of equal sides. each 12 inches, and 120 inches in length? Ans. 30.866ft.

12X120-1440 in. 1st side.

12X120 1440 in. 2d do.
12X120 1440 in. 3d do.

4320 sum of the 3 sides.

Area as above, 62.354×2=124.708, area of the ends.
And 4320-124.708-4444.709÷144 30.866.

REMARKS.-LESSON 32.

Rules by which the propriety of speech may be determined. Language is a species of fashion, founded' by tacit consent.. upon good use;--and good use may be referred to respectable use, national use, and present use.

First. Respectable use is that sanctioned by the practice and opinions of authors whose tastes and talents are estab

lished. Such as Addison, Johnson, Steele, &c. whose writings, with a few others, constitute the British Classics.

Secondly. National use may be referred to the practice of particular countries, or nations. This use, therefore, stands opposed to foreign usages, provincial usages, and the usages of professional men, with regard to their particular calling.

NOTE 1. American nationalities are, in the republic of letters in particular, little else than English nationalities; for, whatever is received asexcellent in the language by that nation, is generally acknowledged as such by this nation.

Thirdly. Present use, with regard to language, does not mean what is used for the time being, but the usages of that portion of duration in which the standard works, which have received the approbation of men of taste and erudition, were produced, and which still continue to be fashionable usage.

NOTE 2. All living languages are undergoing continual revolutions and changes. Hence, there is a time when certain words and phrases are indisputably fashionable;-another time arrives when they are regarded as stale;-and a subsequent time, when they are laid aside as obsolete.

In the writings of William Shakespeare, many terms which were in fashionable use in his day, are now entirely dropped. 'The invaluable hymns and psalms of the inimitable Dr. Watts have been recently revised, and many words of his particular choice necessarily expunged.

FOR EXAMPLE.

Time, what an empty vapour 'tis!
And days;-how swift they are!
Swift as an Indian's arrow flies,
Or like a shooting star.

In the third line, Indian, has been displaced and Archer substi tuted. This, aside from the jaw wrenching alliteration (Archer's arrow) which it produces, seems to favour the prevailing practice of the pious, Christian invaders of the western world, which is to drive, not only the Indian race from the continent, but to blot their name from the page of record.

ab-er-ra-tion ab-o-li-tion

ac-a-dem-ic

SPELLING.-LESSON 33.

ab-ĕr-ra'shun ap-pro-ba-tion ap-pro-ba'shun
ǎb-ō-lish'ūn ar-gil-la-cious àr-jil-la'shus
ǎk-a-dém'ik ar-o-mat-ic ar-6-mătik :

ac-qui-es-cenceǎk-kwē-ěs ́sense ar-ti-fi-cial

àr-te-fish-ăl

ac-qui-si-tion ǎk-kwē-zish ́un a-the-is-tic a-t'he-is'tik ad-a-man-tine ad-a-măn'tin av-a-ri-cious. ǎv-a-rish'us

ad-ap-ta-tion ǎd-ap-ta'shun a-ve-ma-ry

ad-o-les-cence ad-o-les'sense be-a-tif-ic

a-vē-ma'rê

be-a-tif'ik

běn-e-fish'al

ad-sci-ti-tious ǎd-se-tish'us ben-e-fi-cial ad-van-ta-geous ǎd-văn-tā jus cat e-chu-men kǎt-ē-kū ́měn ad-ven-ti-tious ǎd-ven-tish'us cir-cu-la-tion sĕr-ku-la'shun ad-ver-ti-ser ǎd-vĕr-ti'zur cir-cum-spec-tion sĕr-kum-spěk'shun ad-u-la-tion ǎd-yu-lu'shun cir-cum-stan-tial sĕr-kum-stăn ́shăi af-fi-da-vit ǎf-fē-dā'vit cir-cum-val-late sĕr-kum-vällåte af-fir-ma-tion ǎf-fĕr-ma'shun clim-ac-ter-ic klim-ak-těr rik al-a-bas-ter ǎl-a-bǎs'tur co-ad-ju-tor kō-ǎd-jū'tur al-ex-an-drine ãl-legz-ăn'drin co-a-les-cence kō-ă-lĕs'sensc al-yen-a'shun co-a-li-tion kō-a-lish'un ǎl-e-mĕn'tăl col-os-se-an köl-os-sẽ ăn

al-ien-a-tion al-i-men-tal

al le-gor-ic

ǎl-le-gör rik con-de-scen-sion kon-de-sen'shun al-ter-ca-tion ǎl-tur-ka'shun con-fi-den-tial kõn-fé-dĕn'shǎ! am-a-ran-thineăm-a-răn't'hin con-fir-ma-tion kõn-fĕr-ma'shur: am-e-t'hys-tineăm-e-t'his'tin con-je-la-tion kon-je-lā ́shun an-i-mal-cule ăn-e-mălkūle con-gre-ga-tion kăng-grê-gashun an-te-ce-dent ăn-te-se'dent con-sci-en-tious kon-she-en'shus an-ti-feb-rile con-stel-la-tion kõn-stĕl-la'shun ap-o-plectic ǎp-o-plek tik con-sti-tu-tion kon-stê-tu'shun ap-os-tol-ic ǎp-os-tol'lik con tro-ver-sial kõn-tro-věr'shăl ap-pa-ra-tus ǎp-pa-ra'tus con-tu-ma-cious kõn-tu-mă'shus ap-pa-ri-tion ǎp-pa-rish'un con-va-les-cence kõn-vâ-lĕs ́sense ap-pel-la-tion ǎp-pěl-lă'shun cor-res-pon-dence kõr-re-spon ́dense

ăn-te-fěbril

LESSON 34.

Gen. Lafayette's reply to the President's address.

1. Amidst all my obligations to the general government, and particularly to you, sir, its respected chief magistrate, I have most thankfully to acknowledge the opportunity given me, at this solemn and painful moment, to present the people of the United States with a parting tribute of profound and inexpressible gratitude.

2. To have been, in the critical days of these states, adopted as a favourite son;-to have participated in the toils and perils of their unspotted struggle for independence, freedom, and equal rights;-and in the foundation of the American cra of a new social order, which has already pervaded this, and must, for the dignity and happiness of mankind, successively pervade every part of the other hemisphere;-to have receiv ed at every stage of the revolution, and during forty years after that period, from the people of the United States, and from their representatives at home and abroad, continued marks of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encour agement, and the support of a long and an eventful life.

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3. But where shall I find words to acknowledge that series of welcomes, those unbounded and universal displays of public affection, which have marked each step, each hour of a twelve month's progress through the twenty-four states, and which, while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, satisfactorily evince the concurrence of the people in the kind testimonies, and in the immense favours bestowed on me by the several branches of their representatives, in every part, and at the central seat of the Confederacy.

4. And how, sir, can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings, for the assurance, most peculiarly valued, of your esteem and friendship;-for your kind references to old times, to my beloved associates, and to the vicissitudes of my life; -for your affecting picture of blessings poured, by the several generations of American people, on the remaining days of a delighted veteran;-for your affectionate remark on this sad hour of separation, and on the country of my birth, full, I can say, of American sympathies, on the hope so necessary to me of my seeing again the country that deigned, nearly half a century ago, to call me hers?

5. I shall content myself with proclaiming, before you, sir, and this respected circle, my cordial confirmation of those sentiments which I have daily and publicly expressed, from the time when your venerable predecessor, my old friend and brother in arms, transmitted to me the honourable invitation of Congress, to this hour, when you, sir, whose friendly connexion with me dates from your earliest age, are going to consigu me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of the heroie rational flag on board the splendid ship, the name of which is not the least flattering and kind of the numberless favours which have courted my acceptance. God bless you, sir, and all who surround us.-God bless the American people, each of their states, and the Federal Government. Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart;-such will be its throbs until it ceases to beat.

SOLIDS. LESSON 35.

Pyramids. A pyramid is a solid body whose base may be circular, triangular, polygonical, or square, and its sides plain angles, circles, &c. terminating in a point, called the vertex. A line drawn from the vertex to the centre of the base, is called its perpendicular altitude, or height. The solid contents of all pyramidial figures may be found by the following

RULE. Every pyramid is equal to one third of its circumScribing primeter; Therefore,

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