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The rudiments of letters, and inform
The mind with moral and religious truth,
Both understood and practised; so that none
However destitute, be left to droop,

By timely culture unsustained, or run
Into a wild disorder, or be forced

To drudge through a weary life without the help
Of intellectual implements and tools;
A savage horde among the civilised,
A servile band among the lordly free.
... The discipline of slavery is unknown
Among us: hence the more do we require
The discipline of virtue. Order else
Cannot subsist, nor confidence, nor peace.
Thus duties rising out of good possest
And prudent caution needful to avert
Impending evil, equally require

That the whole people should be taught and trained.
So shall licentiousness and black resolve
Be rooted out, and virtuous habits take
Their place and genuine piety descend,
Like an inheritance from age to age.

EXPLANATION

OF SOME OF THE Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꭱ Ꭰ Ꭼ Ꭱ WORDS

USED IN THIS BOOK.

n. Noun; a. Adjective; v. Verb; pa. Participle. Abyss, n. a depth that cannot be Columbine n. a flower.

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Bard, n. a poet.
Bedropped, pa. sprinkled over.
Beverage, n. drink.
Bill, n. a hatchet with a hooked end,
used in wood-cutting

Bloom, n. bright, fresh appearance

V. to make beautiful.

Bourne, n. a low eminence.

Bushell, n. a dry measure of eight

gallons.

Conspire, v. agree together for a

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Emblem, n. a sign.

Emblematic, a, containing signs.

Contemplate, v. watch carefully Extract, v. draw out.

Faery, a. unearthly.

Mine, n. an excavation in the earth

Fibrous, a. full of thick threads or Mineral, n. what is brought out of

fibres.

Felt, n. cloth or stuff.

mines,

Moralize, v. think seriously about

Firstling, n. first child or offspring Maple, n. a large tree.

when young.

Grove, n. plantation of trees.
Gorgeous, a. brilliant in light or

colour.

Gourd, n. fruit resembling a melon

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Harbinger, n. one who foretels O'er, prep. over; to o'er-brow, to

the coming of another.

Herald, n. one who proclaims or announces anything Humanity, n. nature of men, kind

ness.

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Litharge, n. oxyde of lead; the

overlook; o'er-brim, fill

up.

Pilgrim, n. traveller,
Pearlash, n. a substance obtained

from wood-ashes.
Potash, n. an alkaline salt obtained
from burnt vegetables.

Pledge, n. promise.
Periwinkle, n. a flower.
Prattle, v. to make a murmuring

noise.

Pore, v. look closely and steadily.
Plump, v. make large and fat.

dross which arises in puri-Pearly, a. shone through by light

fying silver with lead.

Law, n. rule of government.
Legible, a. easily read.

Manufacture, n. workmanship. Mead, n. a field with water running through it.

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