9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

10 Two men went up into the temple to pray]; the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, "God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I

13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes] unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, "God be merciful to me a sinner."

14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not]: for of such is the kingdom of God).

17 Verily I say unto you, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

19 And Jesus said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

20 "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother."

21 And he said, "All these have I kept from my youth up."

22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing-sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have [treasure in heaven: and [come, follow mel.

1st verse. Psy. positives and negatives. 2d. Illustration, The.

3d. Illustration, "slow quotation" also.

4th. Illustration, and quotation of disparagement. 6th, 7th, 8th. Slow quotation and psychological positives and negatives.

9th. Psy. positives and negatives.

10th. The illustration.

11th, 12th. Psy. pos. and neg., quotation of disparagement.

13th. Psy. positives and negatives, slow quotation. 14th. The teaching.

15th, 16th, 17th. Psy. positives and negatives, and slow quotation.

18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d. Psy. positives and negatives, quotations.

This speech of Bassanio's, from the "casket scene," in the Merchant of Venice, affords an excellent example of psychological positives and negatives:

Bass. So may the outward shows be least them

selves:

The world is still deceived with ornament.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious_voice,
Obscures the [show of evil? In religion,
What damned error], but some sober brow,
Will bless it, and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with [fair ornament] ?
There is no více so simple, but assumes
Some [mark of virtuel on his outward parts.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As [stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk?
And these assume but valour's excrement,
To render them redoubted. Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in naturel,
Making them lightest that wear most of it :
So are those [crisped snaky golden locks),
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head,

The scull that bred them, in the sepulchre.

Thus ornament is but the [guiled shorel

To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfl
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word

The seeming truth which cunning times put on

To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold, (Hard food for Midas,) I will none of thee:

Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,
Which rather threat'nest, than doth promise aught,
Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence,
And here choose I: Joy be the consequence !

'From lowest place where virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed :
Where great additions swell and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honour: [good alone]

Is good without a name, vileness is so : (also vile)
The property by what it is-should go,

Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair,

In these to nature she's immediate heir;
And these breed honour: that is honours scorn,
Which challenges itself as honour born
(And is not like the sire). Honours best thrive
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers: the mere word a slave
Debauched on every tomb; on every grave
A lying trophy, and (as oft) is dumb
Where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb
Of honoured bones indeed."

King Lear.

cozener.

The usurer hangs the

Through tatter'd clothes small víces do appear;

Robes, and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks :
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em :
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician), seem

To see the things thou dost not.

§ 3.-ANTAGONISM OF GRAMMATICAL FORMS.

We frequently meet with sentences whose form is antagonistic to their spirit, or meaning. Superficial readers are misled by what immediately meets the eye (the construction of the sentence) into rendering it with a meaning, spirit, or inflection of voice in accordance with the form. Even careful readers will commit similar errors from the force of long habit, or from false inflections caught from unreflective teachers; the first of these, the result of mannerisms inculcated in early youth; unwittingly, most likely. They do not read that which meets the understanding, but that which arrests the eye only; else a sentence, interrogative in form but assertive in meaning, they would read assertively, and not interrogatively, as nine readers out of ten do.

Take an example from Isaiah 40: 24:

"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? Hath it not