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Yoaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering its foam or the unpending woods. "Now," said his father, "behold the valley that lies between the hills Ortogrul looked, and espied a little well, out of which issued a small rivulet, me now," said his father, "dost thou wish for sudden affluence, that may pour upon thee like the mountain torrentz or for a slow and gradual increase, resembling the rill gliding from the well?" "Let me be quickly rich," said Ortogrul; "let the golden stream be quick and violent." "Look round thee," said his father, " once again." Ortogrul looked, and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty; but fol lowing the rivulet from the well he traced it to a wide lake, which the supply, slow and constant, kept always full. He awoke, and determined to grow rich by silent profit and per severing industry.

Having sold his patrimony, engaged in merchandize; and in twenty years purchased lands, on which he raised a house equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier, to which he 10vited all the ministers of pleasure, expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford. Leisure soon made him weary of himself, and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy He was courteous and liberal: he gave all that approached him hopes of pleas ing bim, and all who should please him, hopes of being rewarded Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them. His own heart told him its frailties; his own anderstanding reproached him with his faults. "How long, said he with a deep sigh "have I been laboring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless! Let no man hereafter wish to be rich, who is already too wise to be flattered !”

SECTION V.

LADY JANE GREY.

DR. JOHNSON

THIS excellent personage was descended from the roy fine of England by both her parents.

She was carefully educated in the principles of the re formation; and her wisdom and virtue rendered her a shi

ing example to her sex. but it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being; for, in early life, she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke of Northumberland: who promoted a marriage between her and his son, lord Guilford Dudley; and raised her to the throne of England in opposition to the rights of Mary and Elizabeth. At the time of their marriage, she was only about eighteen years of age, and her husband was also very young : a season of hfe very unequal to oppose the interested views of artful and aspiring men; who, instead of exposing them to danger, should have been the protectors of their innocence and youth.

This extraordinary young person, besides the solid endowments of piety and virtue, possessed the most engaging disposition, the most accomplished parts; and being of an equal age with king Edward Vi. she had received all her education with him, and seemed even to possess a greater facivity in acquiring every part of manly and classical literature. She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and Greek languages, as well as of several modern tongues; had passed most of her time in an application to learning; and expressed a great indifference for other occupations and amusements usual with her sex and station. Koger Ascham, tor to the lady Elizabeth; baving at one time paid her a visit, found her employed in reading Plato, while the rest of the family were engaged in a party of hunting in the park ; and upon his admiring the singularity of her choice, she told him, that she "received more pleasure from that author than the others could reap from all their sport and gaiety." Her heart, replete with this love of literature and serious studies, and with tenderness towards her husband, who was deserving of her affection, had never opened itself to the flattering allurements of ambition and the information of her advancement to the throne was by no means agreeable to her. She even refused to accept of the crown; pleaded the preferable right of the two princesses; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enterprise so dangerous, not to say so criminal; and desired to remain in that private station in which she was born. Overcome at last with the entreaties, rather than reasons of her father and father-in-law, and above all of her husband, she submmitted to their will, and was prevailed. on to relinquish

ser own judgment. But her elevation was of very short continuance. The nation declared for Queen Mary; and the lady Jane, after wearing the vain pageantry of a crown during ten days, returned to a private life, with much more satisfaction than she felt when the royalty was tendered to her.

Queen Mary, who appears to have been incapable of geoerosity or clemency, determined to remove every person, from whom the least danger could be apprehended. Warning was, therefore, given to lady Jane to prepare for death's a doom which she had expected, and which the innocence of her life, as well as the misfortunes to which she had been exposed, rendered no unwelcome news to her. The queen's bigotted zeal, under color of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul, induced her to send priests, who molested her with perpetual disputation; and even a reprieve of three day's was granted her, iu hopes that she would be persuaded, during that time, to pay, by a timely conversion to popery, some regard to her eternal welfare. Lady Jane had presence of mind, in those melancholy circumstances, not only to defend her religion by solid arguments, but also to write a letter to her sister, in the Greek language; in which, besides sending a copy of the scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain, in every fortune, a like steady perseverance. On the day of her execution, her husband, lord Guilford, desired permission to see her; but she refused her consent and sent him word, that the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both; and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy, which their approaching end required of them. Their separation, she said, would be only for a moment; and they would soon rejoin each other in a scene, where their affections would be forever united; and where death, disappointments, and misfortunes, could no longer have access to them, or disturb their eternal felicity.

It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and lord Guilford together on the same scaffold, at Tower hill; but the council dreading the compassion of the people for their youth, beauty, innocence, and noble birth, changed their orders, and gave directions that she should be beheaded within a verge of the Tower. She saw her husband led

to execution; and having given him from the window some token of her remembrance, she waited with tranquillity üll her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate. She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart; and found herself more confirmed by the reports, which she heard of the coustancy of his end, than shaken by so tender and melancholy a spectacle. Sir Johu Gage constable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, desired her to bestow on him some small present, which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her. She gave him her table book, in which she had just written three sentences, on seeing her husband's dead body; one in Greek, another in Latin, a third in Eng kishi. The purport of them was, "that human justice was against his body, but the divine mercy would be favorable to his soul: and that if her ault deserved punishment, her youth, at least, and her imprudence, were worthy of excuse and that God and posterity, she trusted, would shew her favor." On the scaffold, she made a speech to the bystanders, in which the mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against the severity with which she had been treated. She said, that her offence was, not having laid her hand upon the Brown, but not rejecting it with sufficient constancy: that she had less erred through ambition than through reverence to her parents, whom she had been taught to respect and hey; that she willingly received death, as the only satisfac

which she could now make to the injured state: and nough her infringement of the laws had been constrained,

would show, by her voluntary submission to their sen tence, that she was desirous to atone for that disobedience, into which too much filial piety had betrayed her that she had justly deserved this punishment for being made the in

ument, though the unwilling instrument, of the ambition of others and that the story of her life, she hoped, might at least be useful, by proving that innocence excuses not great mi-leeds, if they tend any way to the destruction of the ommonwealth. After utering these words, she caused her. to be disrobed by her women, and with a steady serene countenance, submitted herself to the executioner.

BUMES

SECTION VI.

THE HILL OF SCIENCE

In that season of the year, when the serenity of the sky, the various fruits which cover the ground, the discoloured foliage of the trees, and all the sweet, but fading graces of inspiring autumn, open the mind to benevolence, and dispose it for contemplation, I was wandering in a beautiful and romantic country, till curiosity began to give way to weariness; and I sat down on the fragment of a rock overgrown with moss; where the rustling of the failing leaves, the dashing of waters, and the hum of the distant city, soothed my mind into the most perfect tranquillity: and sleep insensibly stole upon me, as I was indulging the agreeable reveries, which the objects around me naturally inspired.

I immediately found myself in a vast extended plain, in the middle of which arose a mountain higher than I had before any conception of. It was covered with a multitude of people, chiefly youth; many of whom pressed forward with the liveliest expression of ardor in their countenance, though the way was in many places steep and difficult.I observed, that those who had but just begun to climb the hill, thought themselves not far from the top; but as they proceeded, new bills were continually rising to their view? and the summit of the highest they could before discern seemed but the foot of another, till the mountain at length appeared to lose itself in the clouds. As I was gazing on these things with astonishment, a friendly instructor suddenly appeared: "The mountain before thec," said he, "is the hill of Science. On the top is the temple of truth, whose head is above the clouds, and a veil of pure light covers her face. Observe the progress of her votaries: be silent and attentive."

After I had noticed a variety of objects, I turned my eye towards the multitudes who were climbing the steep ascent; and observed amongst them a youth of a lively look, a piercing eye, and something fiery and irregular in all his. motions. His name was Genius. He darted like an eagle up the mountain; and left his companions gazing after him with envy and admiration; but his progress was une qual, and interrupted by a thousand caprices.

When