Page 169 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

168 THIRD BOO OF THE BANYAN TREE.
THEY tell us of an Indian tree,
\Vhich, howsoe'er the sun and sky May tempt its boughs to wander ee,
And shoot and blossom wide and high; Far better loves to bend its arms
Downward again to that dear earth, From which the li that lls and warms
Its grate l being, rst had birth.
'Tis thus, though wooed by attering iends, And fed with me,-if fame it be ;
This heart, my own dear mother, tends
With love's true instinct back to thee!
LESSON VI.
ON LIGHT.
PHENOM1ENA, n., visible qualities or appearances, generally applied to strange appearances. See" Phenomenon," p. 30.
V1s10N (vizh'-), n., sight; the culty of seeing. F. and S. vision, om video, L., I see.
SCIENCE (si'-ense), n., the knowledge of general, theoretic principles or laws. Science is knowledge ; art is skill in the use of it. F. science, om (L.) sciens, p. pt. of scire, to know.
Di'AMOND, n., the hardest and most precious of all the gems. F. and D. amant; L. and G. adamas, adamant or precious stone, om (G.) a, not, and damao,· I break, I tame.
1 E1DIUM, n., a mean; anything intervening. L. medium, om medius, om mesos, G., middle.
0MNlPRES1ENT, a., present everywhere. L. omnipr sens,-omnis, all . or every, and pr sens, present, being be re.
MIN'IATURE, n., a representation on a sm l scale :-small paintings were styled miniatures, because objects were delineated upon them on a small scale, that is, less than the reality; hence tho term came to be applied to anything small. F. miniature; I. miniatura, a small painting, always done in water-colours,- om
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