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 Ii has been said, emphatically, but with more poetry than truth, that ''Death loves a shining mark" The arrows of Inc grim tyrant are ever directed with impartial aim. They pierce, alike. the weak and the strong. the mighty and the humble. With equal velocity they reach the proudest esaineHee, or divide the clouds of the darkest cbseari- ty. No height Is above, no depth below, their dread certainty. It is only as the mark is more shining that the arrow $ flight is more observed. The memory of him whose fife had been unadorned by aught of brilliant exploit, nucharaetesised by chequered event, or unmarked by exempia- " excellence, may soon fade away from the minds of men, save were t IS cherished, deeply and deyotedly, but nnobisusively ]; in the hearts of the bereaved fam y circle, and embaImed in the tears of the few fond friends. But the world knows nothing of the loss which has been sustained, and sheds nc sympathizing tear with t4e mourn CTS that are lett behind. X few hours, perhaps, (a few days, at the mqt,) glide by, and the grass grows above tse remalns of the deceased; and no one paises to ln- auire who moulders beneath; thdwlld brar may cluster, in tangled iuxuriaife, around the marble destined to perpetual his name and fame the damp moss mai hide the chiseled story and the incuriolF eye cold ly gianees on the spot, while ipt ilaad is stretched forthto avert the raYages ot tnne, or rescue from oblivion the memory of its unconscious victim.

 Such has been the fate ofthe geatmass of mankind, from the creation o the world until the present day and sael a'ill if con- tinue to be, through all ages toeome. To this general and sweeping dHstiny there have been numerous exceptlon-many tor good, many more for evil. Fane IS not al- ways honorable, and obliYia would be sometimes a blessing, which ae world de- nies. The page which tells { the excel lence of an Adrian, proclaimy too, the VI =ces of | Nero the trumpet that sounds inc eoodness of an Alfred, rigs the Intamy of a Richard When the snoW-topped 1mountaias of Switzerland Fesouad with inc virtues of Tell, the eeb of the ava lancbes returns the tyrannykf Gessler; and the spifit-stirring story Ehich depicts, [ in colours of living light, th patriotism ot Washington, reveals, in daeening shades, the treachery of an Arnold.

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 inns that before US are held.that we ma, fFi;a4 aaa nlsfeiNe l4sss ssis '' isssss ns te aaad. and beacon leks to warm us fro,, evil. Iercible appeB are thus made not merely .o the selfish Eerests and pre-. . indjces. but 10 the purer ad holier feeling. of men: We may net , attaln the great

 ness, but we may emuia7 tae goodaess which we admire; and 4 may certainl, avoid the Ill which we deFecate and abhor