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VERY HIGH

1. They strike! hurrah! the fort has surrendered!
Shout! shout! my warrior boy,

And wave your cap, and clap your hands for joy
Cheer answer cheer, and bear the cheer about.
Hurrah! hurrah! for the fiery fort is ours.
"Victory! victory! victory!"

Is the shout.

Shout for the fiery fort is ours, and the field
And the day are ours!

2. Rejoice, you men of Algiers, ring your bells:
King John, your king and England's, doth approach.

Open your gates and give the victors way. "King John."

SHAKESPEARE.

3. Pull, pull in your lassos, and bridle to steed,
And speed, if ever for life you would speed;

And ride for your lives, for your lives you must ride,
For the plain is aflame, the prairie on fire.

NINE DEGREES OF PITCH

9. Extremely high:

I repeat it sir, let it come! let it come!

8. Very high:

Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty! 7. High:

The sounding aisles of the dim woods rang.

6. Rather high:

With music I come from my balmy home.

5. Middle:

A vision of beauty appeared on the clouds.

4. Rather low:

Friends, Romans, Countrymen!

3. Low:

And this is in the night, most glorious night! 2. Very low:

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! 1. As low as possible:

Eternity,-thou pleasing, dreadful thought. "Voice and Action."

J. E. FROBISHER.

CHAPTER V

MODULATION (Continued)

TIME

Time as applied to speech embraces three important elements: Rate, Quantity, and Pausing. The rate at which one speaks may be Medium, Slow, Very Slow, Rapid, or Very Rapid. Quantity is the time given to syllables and individual words. Pausing has reference to time between words and is divided into two kinds: Grammatical and Rhetorical.

Medium:

RATE

1. Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in less important argument, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

"Essays Of Studies."

BACON.

2. Not eloquence, but truth, is to be sought in the Holy Scriptures, every part of which must be read with the same spirit by which it was written. In these, and all other books, it is improvement in holiness, not pleasure in the subtlety of thought, or the accuracy of expression, that must be principally regarded. We ought to read those parts that are simple and devout, with the same affection and delight as those of high speculation or profound erudition. Whatever book thou readest, suffer not thy mind to be influenced by the character of the writer, whether his literary accomplishments be great or small. Let thy only motive to read be the love of truth; and, instead of inquiring who it is that writes, give all thy attention to the nature of what is written. Man passeth away like the shadows of the morning; but "the word of the Lord endureth forever": and that word, without respect of persons, in ways infinitely various, speaketh unto all.

"Reading the Scriptures."

THOMAS A'KEMPIS.

3. Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

"The Christmas Carol."

DICKENS.

4. We have demonstrations enough, fortunately, to show that truth alone is not sufficient; for truth is the arrow, but man is the bow that sends it home. There be many men who are the light of the pulpit, whose thought is profound, whose learning is universal, but those offices are unspeakably dull. They do make known the truth; but without favor, without grace, without beauty, without inspiration; and discourse upon discourse would fitly be called the funeral of important subjects.

BEECHER.

Slow:

1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

2. Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron bells!

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night

How we shiver with affright

At the melancholy menace of their tone!

For every sound that floats

From the rust within their throats

Is a groan.

"The Bells."

Very Slow:

1. To be or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream! ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

POE.

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