. The Family tutor . onarchs,probably Sennacherib, the royal signetsof the two kings, thus found togecher,were attached to the treaty, which wasdeposited amongst the archives of thekingdom. Whilst the document itself,written parchment or papyrus, has com-pletely perished, this singular proof ofthe alliance, if not actual meeting, of thetwo monarchs, is still preserved amidstthe remains of the state papers of theAssyrian empire ; furnishing one of themost remarkable instances of confirma-tory evidence on record, whether we re-gard it as verifying the correctness of theinterpretation of the cune
. The Family tutor . onarchs,probably Sennacherib, the royal signetsof the two kings, thus found togecher,were attached to the treaty, which wasdeposited amongst the archives of thekingdom. Whilst the document itself,written parchment or papyrus, has com-pletely perished, this singular proof ofthe alliance, if not actual meeting, of thetwo monarchs, is still preserved amidstthe remains of the state papers of theAssyrian empire ; furnishing one of themost remarkable instances of confirma-tory evidence on record, whether we re-gard it as verifying the correctness of theinterpretation of the cuneiform character,or as an illiistratiou of Scripture history.—Layards Nineveh. Science and Religion.—Men do notbecome irreligious in the company of Ba-con and Newton, and Hunter and will not say that learned men are ne-cessarily good men, but at least they standa better chance of becoming so than thosewhose minds know no other aim than thegratification of the daily wants of the body. THE MONTHS—JUNE. 325. Now have young April and the blue-eyed May Vanishd awhile; and lo ! the glorious June (While Nature ripens in his burning noon) Comes like a young inheritor: and gay, Although his parent months have passd away: But his green crown shall wither, and the timeThat usherd in his birth be silent soon,And in the strength of youth shall he Cornwall. Night has passed, the sable clouds arerolling towards the west, and the resplen-dent rays of the glorious sun are rapidly- alighting upon the gray and barren rocks ;the gushing brooks, and moss-clad wallsaround us. See how the pearly dew thathangs from yon spiders web, glitters inthe hedge of green alder, which is re-lieved by the cerulean hue of the ashbehind it. The tremulous leaves of theforest trees fan us, as we recline beneaththeir gnarled trunks, while around us,fresh flowers are springing in wood and vale,Their breath floats out in the southern gale; 526 THE MONTHS—JUNE. and between the rude blocks of ma
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