7. Válour, humànity, coùrtesy, jùstice, and hónour, were the main characterístics of chìvalry.

8. Among the várious blèssings which we derive from árt, are weàlth, còmmerce, hónour, líberty, content.

9. Sóphocles, Eurípides, Pindar, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Phìdias, Apélles, were the cotèmporaries of Sócrates or of Plato.

10. Wíne, beauty, músic, pòmp, stùdy, divèrsion, business, are but poòr expédients to heave off the insupportable load of an hour-from the heárt of màn.

11. The fruit of the spírit, is love, joy, peace, lòng-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, méekness, tèmperance.

12. Complaisance - renders a supérioràmiable, an èqual-agréeable, and an inférior -àcceptable.

13. Séneca declàres that we spend our lives, éither in doing nóthing at àll, or in doing nòthing to the púrpose, or in doing nothing that we oùght-to-do.

14. I am persuaded that neither death nor life; nor ángels, nor principálities, nor powers; nor things présent nor things to còme; nor héight, nor depth; nor any other-creature, shall be able to séparate us from the love of God.

EXERCISE 2.

Modulative Accents arising from Antithesis.

1. Bùsiness-sweetens pleasure, as lábour— sweetens rèst.

2. Extended empire, like expanded góld, exchanges sòlid strength-for féeble splèndour.

3. A friend-cannot be known-in prospérity; and an enemy-cannot be hidden--in advèrsity.

4. We máke provision for this life, as though it were never to have an énd; and for the other life, as though it were never to have a begìnning.

5. The difference between a màdman and a foól, ís, that the former-reasons justly-from fálse-data; and the latter, erróneously-from just-data.

6. If our principles are fàlse, nó apology from ourselves, can make them ríght; ìf foùnded in trúth, nò cènsure from others, can make them wrong.

7. Hé that would pàss the latter part of his life with honour and décency, múst, when he is yoùng, consider that he shall one day be old, and remember, when he is-óld, that he has ónce been yoùng.

8. O' could I flòw like thée, and máke thy stréam

My great example, as it is my theme,

Though déep, yet cleàr, though gentle, yet not dúll,

Stròng, without ráge, withoùt o'erflowing fùll.

9. Pléasures-are éver in our hands or éyes, And when in àct-they céase, in próspect-rìse;

Présent to grasp, and fùture-still to find, The whole employ of bódy-or of mind. 10. Pássions-are winds-to ùrge us o'er the wave,

Reason-the rúdder-to direct and sàve,
This-without thòse--obtàins a váin-em-
ploy,

Those without this-but úrge us
destroy.

EXERCISE 3.

Emphatic Accent, to give peculiar Force to a Word, interfering with the Modulative

Accents.

1. When people are determined to quarrel, a straw-will furnish the occasion,

2. In the present exercise, emphasis is the subject to which the pupil's attention is called.

3. Of all the discoveries of modern ages, the art of printing-has certainly done most for the improvement of mankind.

4. If we seek to excel in any character, that of a christian-claims especially our most ardent wishes, our most earnest endeavours.

5. Glòry-was the phantom pursued throughout his whole career of life; glòry-was the subject of his waking thoughts, the image of his nightly dreams.

6. A man of a polite imagination can con-. verse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.

7. The bounties of providence are so manifold, that a grateful heart is overpowered, when it calls them to remembrance.

8. And who but wishes-to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause. 9. If each system of gradation roll

Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole-must fall. 10. None among the choice and prime

Of those heaven-warring champions, could
be found

So hardy as to proffer or accept
Alone the dreadful voyage; till at last
Satan-whom now transcendent glory

raised

Above his fellows, with monarchal pride Conscious of highest worth, unmoved, thus spake.

Suspensive and Conclusive Accents.

The principal accents of a sentence maintaining a dependent construction to the end, are, as already stated, the suspensive and conclusive. To these the pupil's attention is now to be given; for

if the first two exercises have had a proper effect, his ear will direct him, in preparing for the suspensive and conclusive, to use the modulation necessary for the whole sentence. But as the force of the principal accents depends entirely on the preparation made for them, the pupil may continue the marks in pencil of some of the other accents, and may add a mark, where necessary, to signify that the tone is lowered, and a dot, as already recommended, to indicate a breath pause. He is also advised, where the accents are so near a level as not to be distinguishable to his ear, to adopt a horizontal mark for what may be called a continuing tone. This will generally be necessary at the commencement of a long periodic sentence; in which little modulation should be perceptible, till the reader begins to approach the suspensive accent. He may likewise indicate when a succession of similar accents are continuing upward or continuing downward, by carrying the mark beyond the syllable where the inflection commences, and by beginning the mark of the next accent as high as the preceding terminated. An example of these several marks will be necessary.

As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the eye, land that pleasure consists in observing that all the parts have a certain elegance, and are proportioned to each other; so does decency of behaviour which appears in our lives, obtain the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation, of our words and actions.

These marks indicate that the accents sound as forming one continuing tone as far as the word eye, interrupted only by breathing places at the commas, and varied by a slight inflection upward at agreeable; that the voice is lowered in beginning the next clause; that though there is no comma, a breath pause is made at observing ; that the level continuing tone becomes " upward continuing" at all, parts, certain, till it descends at elegance, and repeats this descent at pro-portioned, as a forcible preparation for the suspensive at other; and the remaining marks signify that, by means of a similar kind, preparation is gradually made for the conclusive at actions.