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philosophy; | 7 and though seemingly | destitute of wisdom, | 1 he was really wise. ||| No | reading or study | 7 had contributed | 7 to disenchant | 7 the | fairy | land | ↑ a | round him.

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Every thing | furnished him | 7 with an oppor tunity of mirth, || 7 and though some thought him, 7 from his insensibility, | 7 a | fool, | 7 he was | such an idiot | 7 as philosophers 7 should wish to imitate: || 7 for all philosophy | 7 is only | forcing the trade of | happiness, | 7 when | Nature | seems to deny the | means. | | | They, 7 who like our | slaves, |1 can | place themselves 7 on that side of the world 7 in which every thing | 7 appears in a | pleasing | light, 7 will find | something | 7 in every oc currence 7 to ex | cite their | good | humor. ||| 2 The | nost ca | lamitous events, | | either to them selves 1 or others, | 7 can | bring | no | new | 1 affliction; 7 the whole | world | 7 is to them,

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a theatre, 7 on which | comedies | only | 7 are acted. All the bustle of heroism, 7 or the rants of ambition || serve | only to heighten | 7 the absurdity | 7 of the scene | 7 and | make the humor 7 more poignant. || 7 They | feel, 7 in short, | 7 as little | anguish | 7 at their own distress, 7 or the complaints of | others, 7 as the | under | taker, | 7 though | dressed in | black, feels | sorrow | 7 at a | funeral. | | |

7 Of all the men | 7 I ever | read of, | 7 the 1 famous Cardinal de Retz | 7 possessed this | happiness of temper | 7 in the highest degree.

|| As he was a pised 7 all that

man of | gallantry, | 7 and des | wore the pedantic appearance | 7 of phi |losophy, | 7 wher | ever | pleasure | 1 was to be sold he was generally | foremost | 1 to raise the auction. ||| Being a universal | 7 admirer of the | fair | sex, || 7 when he | found | one | lady | cruel, | 7 he generally | fell in | love | 7 with an | other, | 7 from | whom he ex | pected | 1 a more favorable | 7 re | ception. | | | 7 If | she, | too, 1 rejected his ad | dresses, || 7 he never 1 | thought of retiring into | deserts, | 7 or | pining in | hopeless distress; || he per | suaded himself, | 7 that instead of | loving the | lady, | 7 he had | only fancied | 7 that he had loved her; | | 7 and | so | all was well again. |||

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1 When | fortune | wore her | angriest | look, || 1 and he at last | fell into the power | 1 of his most | deadly enemy, || Cardinal | Maza | rine, || (being con | fined a close | prisoner, | 7 in the | castle of | Valenciennes), | 1 he never attempted | 7 to 1 support his dis | tress | 7 by | wisdom | 7 or phi | า losophy; || 7 for he pre | tended to | neither. | || 7 He only laughed | 7 at him | self | 7 and his | persecutor; || and | seemed | infinitely | pleased | 1 at his new situation. | | | 7 In this mansion of distress, though secluded from his | friends, | | 7 though denied | all the amusements, | 7 and | even the conveniences of | life, | 7 he still re tained his good | humor; || laughed at | all the | little spite of his | enemies: || 7 and | carried the | jest | so far as to be re | venged, | 1 by | writing the life of his | gaoler. | ||

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The | Cardinal's example | 7 will instruct us to be | merry, | 7 in | circumstances | 1 of the highest af | fliction. | || 7 It | matters not | 7 whether our good | humor | 7 be | construed, | 1 by others, 7 into | insensibility; | 1 or even | idiotism: 7 it is happiness | 7 to our selves; | 7 and ❘ none but a | fool, | 7 would | measure his | satisfaction | 7 by | what the | world | thinks of า it. | ||

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7 The happiest | silly | fellow | 7 I ever | knew, 1 was of the number of those | good natured | creatures | 7 that are said to do | no | harm | 7 to any but themselves. ||| 7 When | ever he fell into any misery, | | 1 he usually | called it || Seeing | life.' ||| 7 If his | head | 7 was broke by a | chairman, 7 or his | pocket | picked by a | sharper, 7 he comforted himself | 7 by | imitating | 7 | the Hibernian | dialect | 7 of the | one, or the more | fashionable | cant | 7 of the other. ||| Nothing | came a miss to him. |||

7 His inattention to money matters | 1 had incensed his father | 7 to | such a de | gree, | 7 that all intercession of | friends, | 7 in his | favor, | 7 was fruitless. |||

7 The old gentleman | 7 was on his death bed. 1 The whole | family, | 1 and | Dick | 7 a l mong the number, || gathered a | round him. ||| 7I leave my second | son | Andrew,' | 7 said I the expiring miser, | 7 my whole es | tate; | 1 | 7 and desire him | 7 to be | frugal.'|||

Andrew, 7 in a | sorrowful | tone | 7 (as is usual 7 on those occasions), || prayed | Heaven to pro | long his life and | health | 1 to enjoy himself! |||

7 I recommend | Simon, | 7 my third son, 7 to the care of his elder | brother; || 7 and leave him, | 7 be | side, | four | thousand | pounds.' | ||

Ah! father,' | 7 cried | Simon | 7 (in great af | fliction, 7 to be sure), 7 may | Heaven | give | | | you | life and health | 7 to en | joy it your │

self! '|||

7 At last turning to | poor | Dick, || you, | you have | always | 7 been a | sad |

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dog; || you'll never | come to | good: || you'll never be | rich; || 7 I leave you | 7 a shilling, | 7 to | buy a | halter.' |||

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Ah! | father,' | 7 cries | Dick, | 7 without any e | motion, | 7 may | Heaven | give you | life and | health | 7 to enjoy it your self!' || |

EXERCISE V.

THE EXILE OF ERIN.

T. CAMPBELL.

7 There came to the beach | 7 a poor | exile of

Erin,

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7 The dew on his | thin | robe | 7 was | heavy and |

chill; ||

1 For his country he | sighed, | 7 when at ❘ twilight

repairing,

1 To | wander a lone | 7 by the | wind-beaten | hill. || |

7 But the day-star | 7 at | tracted his | eye's sad de | votion; ||

7 For it | rose 7 on his | own native | isle of the |

ocean, |

1 Where once | 7 in the | fervor of | youth's | warm emotion |

7 He sung the bold | anthem | 1 of | Erin go | bragh. |||

Sad is my fate! | 7 (said the | heart | broken | stran

ger) |

7 The wild-deer and wolf | 7 to a covert can

flee, |

1 But I have no | refuge | 1 from | famine and |

danger,

7 A home, and a country | 7 re | main not to |

me. |||

Never again | 1 in the green | sunny | bowers | 1 Where my forefathers | liv'd | 7 shall I spend the sweet hours |

1 Or cover my | harp | 7 with the | wild woven |

flowers |

1 And | strike to the numbers | 7 of | Erin go |

bragh. |||

Erin! 7 my country! | 7 though | sad and for | saken, |

7 In dreams | 7 I re | visit thy | sea-beaten | shore: 7 But a las! | 7 in a | far foreign | land I a | waken,| And sigh for the | friends | 7 that can meet me no more. |||

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