betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this ious reception of our petition comports with those ike preparations which cover our waters and darken land.. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so uning to be reconciled, that force must be called in vin back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, These are the implements of war and subjuga-the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask lemen what means this martial array, if its purpose not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen asany other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of world, to call for all this accumulation of navies armies? No, sir; she has none. They are meant us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the ish ministry have been so long forging. Shall we . And what have we to oppose to them? argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the ject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in ry light of which it is capable; but it has been all vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supation? What terms shall we find which have not n already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, eive ourselves longer. 7. Sir, we have done everything that could be done avert the storm which is now coming on. We have itioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have plored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands tional violence and insult; our disregarded; and we have been from the foot of the throne. 8. In vain, after these thing fond hope of peace and recor longer any room for hope. If we mean to preserve inviolate leges for which we have been we mean not basely to abando which we have been so long have pledged ourselves never to rious object of our contest shall fight! I repeat it, sir, we mu arms, and to the God of hosts, is 9. They tell us, sir, that we cope with so formidable an adv we be stronger? Will it be the year? Will it be when we ar when a British guard shall be s Shall we gather strength by ir Shall we acquire the means of lying supinely on our backs, an phantom of hope, until our ene us hand and foot? 10. Sir, we are not weak if w those means which the God of our power. Three millions of p cause of liberty, and in such a co possess, are invincible by any can send against us. Besides, our battles alone. There is a - the destinies of nations, and who wilì raise up ads to fight our battles for us. 1. The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the lant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no tion. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. ir clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, let it come! 2. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemay cry, Peace, peace! but there is no peace. The is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding s. Our brethren are already in the field. Why nd we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? hat would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so eet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and very? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what urse others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, give me death! uʼsion (-zhun), false show. 'po-ral, worldly. sid′i-ous, deceitful; sly. ace, console; cheer. m-põrts', agrees; suits. r'tial (-shal), warlike. förg'ing, forming by heating and hammering. su-pine/ly, flat on the back; lazily. phan'tom, a fancied vision. Siren (1). The reference is to the enchantress Circe (ser'se), who, as the eek poet Homer relates, feasted the companions of Ulysses, and then nsformed them into swine. British ministry (2), the body of officers who manage certain state airs for the British sovereign. It consists of the leading men of the party power at the time. Explain the figure of speech in paragraph 2. Point out a figure of climax paragraph 7. What is Parliament (pär'li-ment)? LII. - МАНМОOD THE LOWELL. Su JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was born in 1819. He graduated at Harvard College in voted himself to literature as a pursuit. during a number of years Professor of Mode in the University at Cambridge. Lowell has written much exquisite po thought, and felicitous in expression. No 1 poetic genius. His "Biglow Papers,' a poli dialect, contain an incomparable delineation wit, and humor of the Yankee race. He ha bright and scholarly essays in prose. In 1880, Mr. Lowell was sent as Minister Court of St. James (England), which position 1. OLD events have modern meaning Of past history which finds kindre Mahmood once, the idol-breaker, s Was at Sumnat tempted sorely, as 2. In the great pagoda's center, mons Granite on a throne of granite, sat Mahmood paused a moment, silen That, with eyes of stone unwaver place. 3. Then the Brahmins knelt before hi bold, Pledging for their idol's ransom cou Gold was yellow dirt to Mahmood, Since from it the roots of power su 4. Were yon stone alone in question, this would please me well," hmood said; "but, with the block there, I my truth must sell. ealth and rule slip down with Fortune, as her wheel turns round, who keeps his faith, he only cannot be discrowned. tle were a change of station, loss of life or crown, t the wreck were past retrieving if the Man fell down." 5. his iron mace he lifted, smote with might and main, nd the idol, on the pavement tumbling, burst in twain. ck obeys the downright striker; from the hollow core, fty times the Brahmins' offer deluged all the floor. 'end (lej'-), a fabulous or roman- | re-triev'ing, bringing back to a foric story. mer state. go'då, a Hindoo temple contain- mace, a heavy staff. ng an idol. Bräh'min, a Hindoo priest. The Faith (1) here means the Mohammedan religion. - Sumnat (1), w usually written Somnauth (som-nawt'), is a town in India. Its farned Hindoo temple was sacked by the Mussulmans under Mahmood in 24. Explain: finds kindred, etc. (1); my truth must sell (4); in twain (5). Explain the first figure in stanza 3, line 3. (As yellow dirt is in regard its worth, so was gold to Mahmood.) Explain similarly the metaphor line 4, "roots of power." Put synonymous words in place of those italicized in the following ntences: The temple's lord was monstrous and abhorred. Gold was of precious use to Mahmood. Mahmood at Sumnat was once tempted sorely. |