3. As wounds in battle given, Scarce felt when blood is hot, So hearts may yet be riven Though at first they knew it not. 4. What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker meant not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod to bow the knee? 5. An honest man's the noblest work of God. 6. He was firm as a rock. 7. Let the carrion rot-there are no noble men but Romans. Element No. 15. 1. Rum has been the ruin of thousands. 2. Destroy all creatures in thy sport and gust, Then say 4. Your apprehension must be dull, To let a thought within your skull 5. The law was enacted by heaven above, That like begets like, and that love begets love. It is that which runs back to our infantile years,― 7. What duties have I left undone? What have I sought I ought to shun? These self-inquiries are the road 8. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, For love is heaven and heaven is love. 9. Trip lightly over trouble, Pass lightly over wrong; We only make grief double By dwelling on it long. 10. Go, my son, and shut the shutter, Element No, 16. 1. Here foot to foot, and steel to steel, A chieftain's vengeance thou shalt feel. Of the birds upon the hazel copse, 4. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? DOUBLE OPEN VOWEL SOUNDS. Element No. 17. 1. Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, 't is there the honor lies. 2. Will you dine with me to-morrow? Yes; if I be alive and your dinner be worth eating. 3. Of all the vices that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide his mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 4. Time is the stuff of which life is made. 5. There were six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant, though all of them were blind, 6. Ye freemen, how long will ye stifle The vengeance that justice inspires? Out, out, with the sword and the rifle, Nor shame the proud name of your sires! Then like a pearl unto the rock 8. Remember the adage,-Don't trifle with fire; Do you wish to crush out the burning desire? 9. He that by the plow would thrive Must either hold the plow or drive. 10. Idleness is a fruitful cause of vice and crime. Element No. 18. 1. The soil of Illinois is very productive. In longing and sighing for what we have not, 3. Want of enjoyment is want of employment. The soul's calm sunshine and its heartfelt joy, 5. If we suffer the mind and body to be unemployed, our enjoyments, as well as our labors, will be terminated. 6. Coin is metallic currency. 7. Let us the present hour employ, And deem each dream of future joy 8. The skill that conquers space and time, Than that which makes a realm its spoil. 9. Have ye vices that seek a destroyer? Have you passions that need your control? Let reason be made your employer, And your body submit to your soul. Element No. 19. 1. The owl is called the bird of Minerva. This rebel Chieftain and his band. Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who share our envy now. 5. And Nathan said unto David," Thou art the man." Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. 7. No pent-up Utica confines our powers, But the whole boundless universe is ours. 8. Now's the day and now's the hour. Element No. 20. 1. Sweet are the uses of adversity; which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. 2. Swift as the scream of the curlew, A frown can tear his heart asunder, 4. Our sensibilities are so acute, 5. The fear of being silent makes us mute. And still the wonder grew, How one small head contained the whole he knew. The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, 7. Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew The true sound of any element is expressed more perfectly at the end than at the commencement of a word or a syllable. Take great care to give the subvocals correctly, and to give the sound when it ends the word in a prolonged, pure, and distinct tone. Give each passage as if talking your own thoughts. CORRELATIVE SUBVOCALS. Element No. 21. 1. Time is the web of life. 2. O woman, though only a part of man's rib, Element No. 22. 1. Lives there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said This is my own, my native land? 2. Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod: Rejudge his justice be the God of god. 3. Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Element No. 23. 1. Hath a dog money? Is it possible a cur can lend three thousand ducats? 2. His right hand grasped a traveling trunk, his left hand held a bag, And by the twinkling of his eye you recognized a wag. 3. Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, |