Aspire to greater things

With heav'n-exalted eye

With steadfast tread, and bearing high, And Hope on joyful wings.

Press on, with purpose pure,
Nor cast one look behind;
Ambitious still to store thy mind

With that which shall endure.

Seek but the Good and Great!
Man's mission on the earth
Is progress ever from his birth;
Nor should his zeal abate.

Aspire to better deeds!

With Hope and Love entwined,
Let emulation fill thy mind,
To haste when duty leads.

OF

LESSON BOOKS.

BOOK VI.

INCLUDING

READING, SPELLING, AND ARITHMETIC.

EDITED BY

J. WERNER LAURIE,

AUTHOR OF

Henry's First History of England.

Henry's First Scripture Lessons.

Maxwell's General Geography.

Maxwell's First Lessons in Geography.

Maxwell's Geography of British Empire.

Home and its Duties.

Trip Round the World: with Conversations.
Werner's First German Course.

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IN a few hours we shall have entered on a new

year. It is barely ninety

at the present moment.

degrees distant from us.

It landed on the eastern

He was

* Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty, October 10th, 1802. He was descended from a family of sailors, and lost his father by a storm at sea when he was only five years of age. educated at Cromarty Grammar School. From his seventeenth to his thirty-fourth year he worked as a stonemason, devoting bis leisure hours to acquiring knowledge and writing poems and