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EXERCISE II.

Denunciation and Reprehension.

1. Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are màrrowless; thou hast no speculation in thine eyes which thou dost glàre with!

2. Thou slàve, thou wrètch, thou còward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever stròng upon the stronger side!
Thou fortune's champion, thou dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by,

To teach thee safety! thou art perjured, too,
And soothest up thy greatness.

3. What a fool art thou,

A ràmping fool; to brag, to stamp, and swear,
Upon my party! thou cold-blooded slave!
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
Been sworn my soldier? bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
Thou wear a lion's hide? dòff it for shàme,
And hang a calf's skin on thy recreant limbs.

4. Thou art a traitor to the realm!

Lòrd of a lawless band!

The bold in speech, the fierce in broil,

The troubler of our land!

Thy castles and thy rebel towers

Are forfeit to the crown;

And thou, beneath the Norman ax‚a

Shalt end thy base renown!

Beneath the Norman ax, implies beheading him.

5. The spirit of rational liberty is moving all Europe. It is human nature, waking in her might from the slumber of ages, shaking herself from the dust of antiquated institutions, girding herself for combat, and going forth conquering and to conquer; and woe unto the man, woe unto the dynasty, woe unto the party, and woe unto the policy, on whom shall fall the scath of her blighting indignation.

EXERCISE III.

Exclamation.

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1. O wretched prince! O cruel reverse of fortune! father Micìpsa!a Is this the consequence of thy generosity; that he whom thy goodness raised to an equality with thy own children, should be the murderer of thy children?

2. Whither-oh! whither shall I fly? If I return to the royal palace of my ancestors, my father's throne is seized by the murderer of my brother. Oh, murdered, butchered brother! Oh, dearest to my heàrt

my sight!

now gone forever from

3. Whither shall I return? Wretch that I am! to what place shall I betàke myself? Shall I go to the cápital? Alàs! it is overflowed with my brother's blood! Or shall I return to my house? Yet there I behold my mother, plunged in misery, weeping, and despairing. I am robbed! I am rùined! O my money! my guìneas! my support! my àll is gone!

4. What a splendid piece of workmanship! What a majestic scene! What a piece of work is man! How glorious are all the works of God! What splendid views of . heaven! How majestically the sun wheels his mighty course! Behold the daughter of innocence! what a look! what beauty!

Micipsa, king of Numidia.

what sweetness!

Behold that great and good man! what

majesty! how graceful! how commanding!

5. How serenely slept the star-light on thy lovely city! How breathlessly its pillared streets reposed in their security! How softly rippled the dark, green waves beyond! How cloudless, spread aloft, and blue, the dreaming Campanian a skies! Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii!b the colony of the hoar Chaldean! the fabled city of Hercules!d the delight of the voluptuous Roman! Age after age had rolled, indestructive, unheeded, over its head; and now the last ray quivered on the dial-plate of its doom!

6. See what discoveries God causes to spring from the human brain, all tending to the great end of peace! What progress! What amplifications! How nature more and more suffers herself to be vanquished by man! How matter becomes more and more a slave of intelligence, and the servant of civilization! How the causes of war vanish with the causes of suffering! How remote nations are brought near! How distance is abridged! And how this abridgment makes men more like brothers!

EXERCISE IV.

Exclamatory Questions and Tender Emotion.

1. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature to the massacres of the Indian scálping-knife! to the cannibal

a Campanian skies, Campania is a delightful extent of country in the western part of Italy. Pompeii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, discovered and disentombed in 1748 since which time many things have been taken out, and deposited in the museum at Naples. Chaldean, an inhabitant cf Chaldea, a country between the Euphrates and Tigris. d Hercules, the most celebrated hero in the mythological age of Greece, supposed to have died about 925, B. C.

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sávage, torturing, murdering, devouring, drinking the blood of his mangled víctims! Such notions shock every precept of morality, every feeling of humanity, every sentiment of hònor.

2. What! does the word come more powerfully from the dignitary in purple and fine linen, than it came from the poor apóstle? What! my lords, not cultivate barren land; not encourage the manufactories of your country; not relieve the poor of your flóck, if the church is to be at any expense théreby!

3. Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of paín!

How many sink in the devouring flóod,

Or more devouring fláme! How many bleed
By shameful variance betwixt man and mán!

4. How many pine in wánt, and dungeon gloóms,
Shut out from the common aír, and common use
Of their own límbs! How many drink the cup
Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
Of misery! Sore pierced by winter's winds.
How many shrink into the sordid hut
Of cheerless poverty! How many shake
With all the fiercer tortures of the mind,
Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse!

5. How many, racked with honest passions, droop
In deep, retired distress! How many stand
Around the death-bed of their dearest friends,
And point the parting anguish? Thought fond man
Of these, and all the thousand, nameless ills,
Vice, in his high career, would stand appalled,
And heedless, rambling impulse learn to think,

SECTION X.

RULE 10. The last pause but one in a sentence, for the sake of variety and harmony, generally has the rising inflection, especially when all the rest require the falling.

EXAMPLES.

1. Be pèrfect, be of good còmfort, be of one mínd, live in peace.

2. There is no national dèbt; the community is òpulent; the government, económical, and the public treasury, fùll.

3. The rocks crùmble; the trees fall; the leaves fáde, and the grass withers.

4. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not gò; keep hér for she is my life.

5. True eloquence must exist in the màn, in the subject, and in the occasion.

6. Let me prepare for the approach of eternity; let me give up my soul to meditàtion; let solitude and silence acquaint me with the mysteries of devòtion; let me calmly await the hour of death, and peacefully resign my spirit into the hands of my Maker.

NOTE. When the members of a sentence are followed by a semicolon, and require the falling slide, the rising suspensive inflection frequently precedes such pause, the same as in a complete sentence, especially when the member is long, and its component parts are separated by commas.

EXAMPLES.

7. The man of public spirit has recourse to retirement, in crder to form plans for the general goòd; the man of génius, in order to dwell on his favorite thèmes; the philosopher, to pursue his discoveries; and the saint, to improve his gràces. 2. Christianity proposes for our imitation the highest

QUESTIONS. What is the rule for the last pause but one in a sentence? What is the note under this rule ?

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