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a republican and an emperor-a !iohammedan-a Catholic and a patron of the synagogue-a subalte and a sovereign-a traitor and a tyrant-a Christian and an in del-he was, through all his vicissitudes, the same stern, i mpatient, in exible original-the same mysterious, incomprehensible self-the man without a model, and without a shadow.
PHILLIPS.
LESSON XVII.
CHARACTER OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
0AL1UMNY, n., slander ; lse charge. L. calumnia.
PEAS'ANTRY, n., peasants; country people. F. paisant, peasant. REPUG1NANT, a., contrary; opposite. F. L. rep nans.
Srn'rn, a., cold; austere; a ecting to hold all things indi erent. G.
stoikos.
READI NG LESSONS.
SuB'TILTY, n., cunning; arti ce; acuteness. F. subtilite.
In'1mr, n., phraseology. L. and G. idioma.
EQu1vocA1TION, n., ambiguity of speech; double meaning; a quibble.
Old F. equivoque.
HosPITAL1ITY, n., the practice of entertaining strangers. From L.
hospitalis, hospitable.
Om,cu'RITY, n., unnoticed state. L. obscuritas. lNNATK', a., inborn; natural; inherent. L. innatus.
1. THE Irish peQple have been as little known, as they have been grossly de med to the rest of Eu­ rope. The lengths to which English writers have proceeded in pursuit of this object would surpass all belief, were not the cts proved by histories ,vritten under the immediate eye and sanction of Irish Gov­ ernments, histories replete with lsehood, which, combined with the still more mischievous misrepre­ sentations of modern writers, rm all together a mass of the most cruel calumnies that ever weighed down the character of a meritorious people.
2. This system, however, was not without its mean­ mg. From the reign of Elizabeth, the policy of Eng-