emosthenes addressing the most illustrious
assembly in the world, upon a point whereon the fate of the most
illustrious of nations depended.--How awful such a meeting! How vast the
subject! Is man possessed of talents adequate to the great occasion?
Adequate--yes, superior. By the power of his eloquence; the augustness
of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator; and the importance
of the subject for a while superceded by the admiration of his talents.
With what strength of argument, with what powers of the fancy, with what
emotions of the heart, does he assault and subjugate the whole man, and,
at once, captivate his reason, his imagination, and his passions!--To
effect this, must be the utmost effort of the most improved state of
human nature. Not a faculty that he possesses, is here unemployed: not a
faculty that he possesses, but is here exerted to its highest pitch. All
his internal powers are at work: all his external testify their
energies. Within, the memory, the fancy, the judgment, the passions are
all busy: without, every muscle, every nerve is exerted; not a feature,
not a limb, but speaks. The organs of the body attuned to the exertions
of the mind, through the kindred organs of the hearers, instantaneously,
and, as it were, with an electrical spirit, vibrate those energies from
soul to soul. Notwithstanding the diversity of minds in such a
multitude, by the lightning of eloquence, they are melted into one
mass--the whole assembly actuated in one and the same way, become, as it
were, but one man, and have but one voice. The universal cry is--LET US
MARCH AGAINST PHILIP--LET US FIGHT FOR OUR LIBERTIES--LET US CONQUER--OR
DIE!

_On the duties of School-Boys, from the pious and judicious_

ROLLIN.

Quintillian says, that he has included almost all the duty of scholars
in this one piece of advice which he gives them, to love those who teach
them, as they love the science which they learn of them; and to look
upon them as fathers, from whom they derive not the life of the body,
but that instruction which is in a manner the life of the soul. Indeed
this sentiment of affection, and respect suffices to make them apt to
learn during the time of their studies, and full of gratitude all the
rest of their lives. It seems to me to include a great part of what is
to be expected from them.

Docility, which consists in submitting to directions, in readily
receiving the instructions of their masters; an