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in every object, and at every moment of time, a essenger of light, to tell him what is there, and in what condition. Were he omnipresent, or had he e power of itting om place to place with the speed of the wind, he could scarcely oe more prompt­ ly in rmed. Then, in many cases, where distance intervenes not, light can impart knowledge, which, by any other conceivable means, could come only tediously or not at all. For example, when the il­ luminated countenance is revealing the secret work­ ings of the heart, the tongue would in vain try to speak, even in long phrases, what one smile of f iendship or a ection can in an instant convey: and had there been no light, man never could have suspected the existence of the miniature worlds of. li and activity, which, even in a drop of water, the microscope discovera to him ; nor could he have ed any idea of the admirable structure of many minute objects. It is to that light, again, we owe the telegraph, by which men readily converse om hill to hill, or acros·s an extent of raging sea ; and it is light which, pouring upon the eye through the optic tube, brings intelligence of events passmg rn the remotest regions of space.
THIRD BOOK OF
ARNOTT.
LESSON VII.
THE COLOSSUS AT RHODES.
EN'GINE, n., an instr.ument of war (as in this place): any instrument ingeniously wrought or contrived. F. engin, om (L) ingenimn- ingenuity, from gigno, I beget.
ST TUE (stat'-), n., an image or gure mado to the height or .,tature of any one standing; when greater it was called a colossus, iu L.,