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Alexander Pope was born at London, in the year 1688. He possessed great poetical talents. His "Essay on Man" is very beautiful in language, and elaborate in disquisition. His "Universal Prayer" is a production of no ordinary merit. It should not be read in a hurried manner, and yet with earnestness. Pope was crooked, and when tauntingly "God mend me.' told so, he would His constitution was feeble, but by being temperate, he lived until the 56th year of his age.

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REFLECTIONS AT SEA.

1. Amid the numerous discomforts of a long sea voyage, one is thrown upon his own resources, both for improvement and pleasure. But the mind, accustomed to view with intelligent and devout contemplation the works of God, can seldom be without materials for lofty and purifying thought. And surely the wide ocean and wider sky present a rich field for the expatiation of our noblest thoughts.

2. Pacing the deck, or leaning against the the bulwarks, towards setting sun, it would seem as though the most gross and thoughtless mind must rise, and expand, and feel delight. Far and near rolls "old ocean.' Before Jehovah spread out the fairer scenery of the dry land, these restless billows swelled and sparkled beneath the new-made firma

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3. Thousands of years their wide expanse remained a trackless waste,

"Unconquerable, unreposed, untired,

And rolled the wild, profound eternal bass,
In nature's anthem."

The storm then found no daring mariner to brave its fury, and the gentle breeze no repose on the fair canvass of the lordly ship. Age after age, the fowls of heaven and the tenants of the deep, held undisputed empire.

4. But now, every ocean is added to the dominion of man. He captures its rulers, he makes its surges his highway, and so dexterously adjusts his spreading canvass, as to proceed in the very face of the winds, to his desired

haven. But Oh! how many have found in these same billows, a grave! How many a gallant ship has "sunk like lead in the mighty waters," where beauty and vigor, wealth and venerableness, learning and piety, find undistinguished graves!

5. To these lone deserts of pure waters, man pursues his brother with murderous intent; the silence is broken by thundering cannon; the billows bear away the stain of gore, and all that storm ever swallowed up, have been outnumbered by the victims of a battle. O, war! when will thy horrid banner be forever furled!

6. Reflection, following the chasing waves, passes on to the shores they lave, and there looks over nations, and beholds men in their manners, customs, follies, and crimes, their loves and hates, their joys and sorrows, their enthusiastic pursuit of wealth, and amazing disregard of Heaven. How interminable and salutary are the thoughts thou inspirest, ocean! whether we regard thy age, thy beauties, thy silence, thy treasures, thy services to man, thy praise to God, or the scenes which have been acted on thy surface!

7. But while we thus muse and speculate, the glories of sunset fade into sober gray, the billows take a deeper tinge, stars multiply, and soon we stand beneath the firmament glowing with ten thousand fires. Here are vaster, sublimer fields for thought.

8. "Hail, Source of Being! Universal Soul

Of heaven and earth! Essential Presence, hail !
To Thee I bend the knee; to Thee my thoughts
Continual climb; who, with a master hand,
Hast the great whole into perfection touched."

9. How ennobling and purifying is the study of astronomy! How delicious the Christian's hope of soon roaming among these works of infinite wisdom and power, ever learning, adoring, rejoicing, improvnig; ever becoming more full of God, and of glory, and of joy.—Malcom.

This extract is from Rev. Howard Malcom's "Travels in South Eastern Asia.”

ANECDOTE OF DR. CHAUNCY.

1. Dr. Cooper, who was a man of accomplished manners, and fond of society, was able, by the aid of his fine talents, to dispense with some of the severe study, that others engaged in. This, however, did not escape the envy and malice of the world; and it was said in a kind of petulant and absurd exaggeration, that he used to walk to the South-end of a Saturday, and if he saw a man riding into town in a black coat, would stop and ask him to preach the next day. Dr. Chauncy was a close student, very absent and very irritable. On these traits in the character of the two clergymen, a servant of Dr. Chauncy laid a scheme for obtaining a particular object, from his master.

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2. Scipio went into his master's study one morning to receive some directions, which the doctor having given, 1 sumed his writing, but the servant still remained. The master, looking up a few minutes afterwards, and supposing he had just come in, said : Scipio, what do you want?" "I want a new coat, massa. "Well, go to Mrs. Chauncy, and tell her to give you one of my old coats;" and he was again absorbed in his studies. The servant remained fixed. After a while, the doctor, turning his eyes that way, saw him again, as if for the first time, and said: "What do you want, Scip?" "I want a new coat, massa. "Well, go to my wife, and ask her to give you one of my old coats;" and he fell to writing once

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3. Scipio remained in the same posture. After a few minutes, the doctor looked towards him, and repeated the former question; "Scipio, what do you want?" "I want a new coat, massa.' It now flashed over the doctor's mind, that there was something of repetition in this dialogue." "Why, have I not told you before to ask Mrs. Chauncy to give you one? Get away." "Yes, massa, but I no want a black coat." "Not want a black coat! Why not?" Why, massa, I 'fraid to tell you; but I don't want a black coat." "What's the reason you don't want a black coat? Tell me directly."

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4. "Oh! massa, I don't want a black coat; but I 'fraid to tell you the reason, you so passionate." "You rascal! will you tell me the reason?" "Oh! massa, I'm sure you be angry.' "If I had my cane here, you villain, I'd break your bones! Will you tell me what you mean?” “I fraid to tell you, massa; I know you be angry. The doctor's impatience was now highly irritated, and Scipio, perceiving by his glance at the tongs, that he might find a substitute for the cane, and that he was sufficiently excited, said: "Well, massa, you make me tell, but I know you be angry. I 'fraid, massa, if I wear another black coat, Dr. Cooper ask me to preach for him!"

5. This unexpected termination, realized the servant's calculation; his irritated master burst into a laugh: “Go, you rascal, get my hat and cane, and tell Mrs. Chauncy she may give you a coat of any color; a red one if you choose." Away went the negro to his mistress; and the doctor to tell the story to his friend, Dr. Cooper.-Tudor.

IMPORTANCE OF ELOCUTIONARY POWERS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION.

1. Acquire the habit of good speaking, if you have it not; anxiously cultivate it, if you have. How lamentable is it to see a man of great talent and learning, unable to acquit himself even creditably in this respect, possibly on the most trivial occasions, rising embarrassed, confused, stuttering and stammering, uttering " vain and idle repetitions," with the agonizing accompanyments of "a-a-a,' and sitting down, bursting with vexation and disappointment !

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2. However clear may be a man's conceptions, however consecutive his thoughts, however thorough and extensive his knowledge, he may yet exhibit the sorry spectacle above described, unless he be either naturally gifted with powers of eloquence, or has struggled early and successfully to supply his natural ceficiences.

3. The first question to be asked a student at law, is one

all important. Are his lungs equal to the severe task he is about to impose on them, of keeping them in almost constant play from morning till night? The bar requires signal strength in that organ. To have a strong, flexible, and harmonious voice, is a capital point; but the question is, whether that on which the voice depends, can be relied upon.

4. The pipes of an organ may be capable of giving out tones of great power and exquisite richness; but what if the bellows beneath, be crazy and give way? Let us ask, then, the student, whether there is an hereditary tendency to consumption, in his family, of which symptoms, however slight, have been discovered in himself? Because if so, coming to the bar is downright madness. Any honest and skilful medical man will tell him so.

5. It is not the perpetual and often violent exercise of the voice alone; it is the excitement, the ceaseless wearing of body and mind, that will kill him, as inevitably as it is encountered and persisted in. At the bar, the lungs are in incessant exercise, the consuming fire of excitement is ever kept up by eager, restles rivalry, fed by daily contests, public and harrassing; by anxieties that haunt the young lawyer, not during day only, but also the night-Warren.

PITT'S REPLY TO WALPOLE.

1. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

2. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining; but surely, age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided,

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