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no, no- thou wouldst not have me make a trial of my skill upon my child! Impossible! I do not guess your meaning.

2. We shall be forced, ultimately, to retract; let us retract while we CAN, and not, when we must. I say we must necessa

They must be repealed.

rily UNDO these violent, oppressive acts. You WILL repeal them. I pledge myself for it; I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an IDIOT, if they are not finally repealed.

3. Is this man possessed of talents adequate to the great occasion? Is this the man that made the earth to tremble? that shook kingdoms? He deserves to be treated with utter

contempt.

4. You will again be restored to your firesides and homes; and your fellow-citizens, pointing you out, shall say, "There goes one who belonged to the army of Italy."

5. He is gone from painful labor to quiet rest; from unquiet desire to happy contentment; from sorrow to joy; and from transitory time to immortality.

6. I hope, sir, that gentlemen will deliberately survey the awful isthmus on which we stand. They may bear down all opposition; they may carry the measure triumphantly through the house; but if they do, sir, in my humble judgment, it will be a triumph of the military over the civil authority; a triumph over the powers of this house; a triumph over the constitution of the land; and, I pray, sir, most devoutly, that it may not prove, in its ultimate effects and consequences, a triumph over the liberties of the people.

7. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But, if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoken my lines. And do not saw the air too much with your hands, but

use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must beget a temperance that will give it smoothness. Oh! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwig a-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,b who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it.

8. Be not too tame, either; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone, is from the purpose of playing, whose end is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the times, their form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it may make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve: the censure of one of which, must, in your allowance, overweigh a whole theater of others.

SECTION VIII.

Absolute Emphatic Clause Repeated.

NOTE. Clauses of this kind are subject to the same rules that have been given under Absolute Emphasis, when applied to single words.

EXAMPLES.

1. Let our subject be our country, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, and NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY.

2. A Deity believed, is joy begun; a Deity ADORED, is JOY ADVANCED; a Deity BELOVED, is JOY MATURED.

3. My first argument for the adoption of this measure is, the Groundlings, those who stood in

a Periwig, a small wig to conceal baldness.

what is called the pit, at theaters.

people demand it; my second argument is, THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT; my third argument is, THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT.

EXERCISE.

The

1. Frown INDIGNANTLY upon the first dawning of an attempt to alienate any portion of this Union from the rest. UNION—it must be preserved.

2. I have shown by the gentleman's own arguments, that the doctrine advanced by him, is not at present received; that it never was received; that it never CAN, by any possibility, BE RECEIVED; and, if admitted at all, it must be by the TOTAL

SUBVERSION OF LIBERTY.

3. What was the cause of our wasting forty millions of money, and sixty thousand lives? The American war! What was it that produced the French rescript? a The American war! What was it that produced the Spanish manifesto? THE AMERICAN WAR! What was it that armed forty-two thousand men in Ireland, with the arguments carried on the points of forty-two thousand bayonets? THE AMERICAN WAR! For what are we about to incur an additional debt of twelve or fourteen millions? THIS DIABOLICAL AMERICAN WAR!

4. I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all.

a Rescript, among the Romans, an edict or decree.

5. Is character valuable? On this point, I will not insult you with argument. There are certain things, to argue which, is treason against nature. The Author of our being did not intend to leave this point afloat at the mercy of opinion; but, with his own hand, he has kindly planted in the soul of man an instinctive love of character. This high sentiment has no affinity to pride. It is the ennobling quality of the soul; and, if we have hitherto been elevated above the ranks of surrounding creation, human nature owes its elevation to the love of character.

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6. It is the love of character for which the poet has sung, the philosopher toiled, the hero bled. It is the love of character which wrought miracles in ancient Greece; the love of character is the eagle on which Rome b rose to empire. And it is the love of character, animating the bosom of her sons, on which America must depend in those approaching crises that may "try men's souls." Will a jury weaken this, our nation's hope? Will they, by their verdict, pronounce to the youth of our country, that character is scarce worth possessing? No, gentlemen, no; never, never.

SECTION IX.

Antithetic Emphatic Clause.

NOTE. Clauses of this kind are subject to the same rules that have been given under Antithetic Emphasis, when applied to single words.

a Greece, (proper,) an ancient country, which included all of modern Greece, and a portion of the southern part of Turkey in Europe. b Rome, an ancient city, situated nearly on the site of modern Rome, in Italy. The Roman empire once embraced most of the eastern world as then known.

QUESTION. How should antithetic emphatic clauses be read?

EXAMPLES.

1. The robber of character plunders that which not enriches him, but makes his neighbor poor indeed.

2. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me LIBERTY, or give me. DEATH.

3. Tell your sovereign, sir, I am poor and penniless; but with all the wealth of his KINGDOM, he canNOT make me false to my country. I boast not of my influence over the minds of the people, but I GLORY in my unshaken fidelity to the cause of independence.

EXERCISE.

1. But youth, it seems, is not my only crime. I have been accused of acting a THEATRICAL part.

2. Is it that you would fight Austria for us? No; a thou sand times, No. Take away the prestigea of Russian aid, and I, strong in the confidence of my people, will CRUSH it in one single battle, as I CRUSH this paper in my hand.

3. Be studious, and you will be learned; be industrious and frugal, and you may be rich; be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy; be virtuous, and you will be happy.

4. We read of that philosophy, which can smile over the destruction of property; of that religion, which enables its possessor to extend the benign look of forgiveness and complacency to his murderers; but it is not in the soul of man to bear the lacerations of slander.

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5. There was a time, then, my fellow-citizens, when the Lacedæmonians were sovereign masters, both by sea and land; while this state had not one ship-no, not one wall.

Prestige, illusion, fascination, imposture. Lacedæmonian, a citizen of Sparta, or Lacedæmon, one of the most powerful of the states of ancient Greece.

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