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Earthen chidren

Heaven to roof:
Holy Creator."

With these identical words the sense will be plain by changing the arrangement. "Holy Creator!

He first formed
Heaven, to roof

Earthen children."

To shelter or protect the children belonging or pertaining to earth. This kind of translation gives the reader a more clear idea of the real structure of the original, than one which should be rendered in more elegant modern English.

This piece, singular as it may appear, is the language of the man who was at once the chief glory of the English throne, and one of the best scholars in the kingdom for the age in which he lived.

328. The following is given as an exact copy of the xiii. chapter of 1 Corinthians, from an ancient manuscript, and which is the oldest English translation of the New Testament, at present known to exist. The precise date of it is not known; but supposed to be about the year 1350, or about twenty years before the introduction of printing into England.

It is taken from a copy given by Dr. Adam Clarke, the only alteration being the substitution of Roman print for the old black letter English.

"GifI speke with tungis of men and aungels sotheli I have not charitee: I am maad as brasse soundynge or a symbale tinking. And gif I schal have prophecie and have knowen alle mysteries and alle kunnynge or science. And gif I schal have al feithe so that I over bere hills fro on place to an other. forsothe gif I schal not have charitee: I am

nought. And gif I schal departe al my goodis into metis of pore men. And gif I schal bitake my body so that I brenne forsothe gif I schal not have charitee, it profiteth to me no thing. Charite is pacient or sufferinge. It is benynge or of good will. Charity envyeth not. It doth not gyle. It is not inblowen with pride it is not ambyciouse or covetouse of wirschippis. It seekyth not the thingis that ben her own. It is not stirrid to wrath it thinketh not yvil. it joyeth not on wickednesse. forsothe it joyeth to gydre to treuthe. It suffreth alle thingis. it bilieveth alle thingis. It hopith alle thingis, it susteeneth alle thingis. Charite fallith not doun. Whether prophecies schuln be doid eyther langagis schulen ceese: eyther science schal be destruyed. Forsothe of party we han knowen : and of partye prophecien. Forsothe whenne that schal cum to that is perfit: that thing that is of partye schal be avoydid. When I was a litil chiilde: I spake as a litil chiilde. I understode as a litil chiilde: I thoughte as a litil chiilde. Forsothe when I was maad a man: I avoyded tho thingis that weren of a litil chiilde. Forsothe we seen now bi a miror in darcnesse: thanne forsothe face to face. Nowe I know of partye: thanne forsothe I schal know as I am knowen. Now forsothe dwellen feith hoope charite. These three: forsothe the more of hem is charite."

329. Example in philosophic parsing.

You may show a child a house and teach him the fact that such an edifice could not have made itself; in proof of which opinion, you may show him masons and carpenters at their work. Then direct his attention to the heavenly orbs; the earth; and the numerous animals and vegetables, and minerals

which God has formed for the use of man, and say to the little boy or girl, how much superior is the world we inhabit, to that house! Can the universe, then, have organized its own structure. How ought our souls to glow with gratitude and admiration for the Author of such wisdom and goodness.—Paraphrase from Fenelon.

Child, absolute name of persons.

All names of persons are mixed or complex ideas, including the union of body and mind. House, sensible object.

Fact, attendant circumstance of matter.

ces.

It alludes to some operation on material substan

Edifice, sensible object.

This name is general and always in some degree relative, as implying what is raised, built, or constructed.

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Proof, attendant circumstance having a mixed relation to matter and mind.

Opinion, attendant circumstance of mind.
Masons, relative name of persons.
Carpenters, same as masons.

Work, attendant circumstance of matter and mind.
Attention, attendant circumstance, chiefly of mind.
Orbs, sensible objects.

This name is always in some degree relative, as implying a body rolling in a circle.

Earth, sensible object; but extensive and complex in its idea.

Animals, class of sensible objects, including the relative idea of life.

Vegetables, sensible objects; but the name always relates to the manner of growth.

Minerals, sensible objects; but always relative, as being found in mines.

God, highest mental object,

As mind is superior to matter, and the Creator is the highest mental existence, so the idea is the most sublime which the mind can conceive.

Man, general and absolute name of the human species.

Boy, name of
Girl, same.

persons.

World, complex idea.
House, as before.

Universe, most complex of all ideas, including all objects, qualities, and relations, as a collective whole. Structure, attendant circumstance of matter. Souls, mental object.

Gratitude, mental affection, or attendant circum

stance.

Admiration, attendant circumstance of mind. Author, relative name, applied here to the Crea

tor.

Wisdom and goodness, mental qualities.

330. "These our actors,

(As I foretold you) were all spirits, and
Are melted into ayre, into thin ayre;
And, like the baselesse fabricke of this vision,
The clowd-capt towres, the gorgeous pallaces,
The solemne temples, the great globe itselfe,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue,

And, like this insubstantiall pageant faded, Leaue not a racke behind."--Shakspeare. Tempest, page 15, vol. 1.

Philosophic parsing of the nouns in the foregoing paragraph. The words in this exercise are to be taken in their literal meaning.

Actors, relative name of persons.

Spirits, mental object.

Ayre, air is matter and therefore a sensible object, though not, in its pure form, directly obvious.

Fabric, sensible object, but relative, as being made or fabricated.

Vision, attendant circumstance of matter.
Towers, sensible object.

Palaces, sensible object.

Temples, sensible object, but including the relative idea of their design and use.

Globe, sensible object with the relative idea of form.

Pageant, name of a sensible object, but relatively applied.

Racke, rack is from the verb to reek or smoke, and means a steam, mist or vapor. It is an attendant circumstance of matter; because it denotes no particular substance; but an appearance capable of being assumed by the exhalation of most fluid bodies.

331. "It fortuned, faire Venus having lost Her little sonne, the winged god of Love, Who for some light displeasure, which him crost, Was from her fled, as flit as ayery dove, And left her blissful bowre of joy above; (So from her often he had fled away, When she for ought him did reprove,)

And wandered in the world in strawnge array,

Disguised in thousand shapes, that none might him bewray

Him for to seeke, she left her heavenly hous,
The hous of goodly forms and faire aspect.

And searched everie way, through which his wings
Had borne him, or his tract she mote detect;
First she him sought in court, where most he us'd
Whylome to haunt, but there she found him not;
But many there she found which sore accus'd
His falshood, and with fowle infamous blot
His cruell deedes and wicked wyles did spot:

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