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2. Lord! thou remember'st the night, when thy nation
Stood onting her e by the red-rolling stream; On Egypt thy pillar own'd dark desolation,
While Israel bask'd all the night in its beam;
3. So, when the dread cloud of anger en lds thee, From us, in thy mercy, the dark side remove;
ile shrouded in terrors the guilty behold thee, Oh! turn upon us the mild light of thy love!
LESSON X.
DEATH OF YOUNG FRIEND.
PLA 'rn, a., gentle, tranquil, mild. L. placide, om plaeo I please. 0AN1DOUR, n., purity of mind, sincerity in thought and action :-a brilliant whiteness. L. candor, om candere, to be white, to shine,
or glitter.
ExEM1PTED, pt., granted immunity om; eed om by privilege. L. exemptus, taken out or away, p. pt. of emo, I take or buy; deĀ rived by some om emo., G., mine.
ORIGINAL (o-rid'-je-nal), a., primitive, rst. F. original, om orior, L., I spring or rise om.
SEREN1ITY, n., calmness, peace, composure. F. serenite, om serenus, L., uncloudy, tranquil.
AoaE1RENTS, n., llowers, dependants. F. a erents, om reo, L., I stick. See "Adhesive," p. 103.
PAL'LID, a., pale. L. pallidus, om palleo, I am pale, according to some om pallo, G., I tremble, I shake, as ar often causes paleĀ ness.
PAL1ACE, n., a princely or lordly residence ; a stately mansion. F. palais, om Palatium, L., the Palatine hill at Rome, on which stood the imperial residence and the houses of the principal men
of the state.
Pm'gNANT, a., piercing, stinging, bitter. F. poignant. I. pungente, om pungens, p. pt., of pungere, to sting.
1. OAoL _bad an only son, who om his earliest years had conciliated the vour and a ection, not
O'nouR, n., agrance, scent. L. odor, from G. odzo, I smell.
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