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 —To use your ear a little to English verse, and to make you attend to the sense, too, I have transposed the words of the following lines; which I would have you put in their proper order, and send me in your next:

"Life consider cheat a when 'tis all I Hope the fool'd deceit men yet with favor Repay will to-morrow trust on think and Falser former day to-morrow's than the Worse lies blest be shall when and we says it Hope new some possess'd cuts off with we what."

[This is curious, and truly no bad way of teaching a child the structure of verse. The citation, a fine one, is from Dryden:

"When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope men favor the deceit."

The reader may puzzle out the rest.]

—If six hundred citizens of Athens gave in the name of any one Athenian, written upon an oyster-shell (from whence it is called ostracism), that man was banished Athens for ten years. On one hand, it is certain, that a free people cannot be too careful or jealous of their liberty; and it is certain, too, that the love and applause of mankind will always attend a man of eminent and distinguished virtue; and, consequently, they are more likely to give up their liberties to such