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for a moment and let the voice drop into its ordinary pitch and tone, upon the words that follow.

EXERCISE III.

The student should practice upon each of the following xamples until he can exemplify the rule involved, and bring out the sense in the fullest, most pleasing, and most impressive manner.

EXAMPLES.

1. Diligence, industry, and proper improvement of their time, are material duties of the young.

2. He is generous, just, charitable, and humane.

3. In meat and drink observe the rules of Christian temperance and sobriety.

4. If you would be revenged on your enemies, let your life be blameless.

5. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it.

6. As you value the approbation of heaven or the esteem of the world, cultivate the love of virtue.

7. The earth is adorned with a beautiful variety of mountains, hills, valleys, plains, seas, lakes, rivers, trees, flowers, plants, and animals.

8. Luxury, vanity, and pride, have much influence in corrupting the opinions of the multitude.

9. Make a proper use of your time, for the loss of it can never be retrieved.

10. Envy not the appearance of happiness in any man; for you know not his secret griefs.

11. The shadow of knowledge passeth over the mind of man as a dream; he seeth as in the dark; he reasoneth and is deceived.

12. Do not insult a poor man; his misery eutitles him to pity.

13. A tear is sometimes the indication of a noble mind: Jesus wept.

14. Every thing grows old; every thing passes away; wery thing disappears.

15. A talkative man is a nuisance to society; the ea is sick of bis babbling.

16. Fear God: He is thy Creator and thy Preserver.

17. When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared, and no person knew whence he had come, or whither he had gone.

18. It is not the use of the innocent amusements of life which is dangerous, but the abuse of them; it is not when they are occasionally, but when they are constantly pursued, that they become Lo evil.

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19. Some men are intent upon gathering riches; others endeavor acquire reputation and honor; a third sort are devoted to their leasures; while but few are engaged in the nobler pursuits of learn ing and wisdom.

20. Truth is the basis of every virtue; it is the voice of reason; let its precepts be religiously obeyed; never transgress its limits. Every deviation from truth is criminal. Abhor a falsehood. Let your words be ingenuous.

21. Sincerity possesses the most powerful charm. It acquires the veneration of mankind; its path is security and peace.

EXERCISE IV.

PARENTHESIS.

In the following examples, read the first part of each sentence in a manner suited to the nature of the subject, and make a short pause just before the parenthesis, which read more rapidly, and in a more subdued tone. When the parenthesis is concluded, resume your former pitch and tone of voice.

EXAMPLES.

1. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,)

Virtue alone is happiness below.

2. I have seen charity (if charity it may be called) insult with an air of pity.

3. 1 am happy, said he (expressing himself with the warmest emotion), infinitely happy, in seeing you return.

4. Surely in this age of invention, something may be struck out to obviate the necessity (if such necessity exist) of so tasking the human intellect.

5. Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

6. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (terms which I shall use promiscuously), I here mean such as arise from visible objects.

EXERCISE V.

THE RHETORICAL PAUSE.

The Rhetorical Pause consists in suspending the voice ether directly before or after the utterance of an important thought. The pause before the principal word awakens curiosity and excites expectation; after, it carries the mind back to what has already been said.

Pauses occur as often where points are not found as where they are. Sense and sentiment are the best guides in the use of the pause. The student must remember that every important modulation, in order to preserve its due force and distinctness, requires to be followed by a consid erable pause.

A pause of greater or less duration is always required wherever an interruption occurs in the progress of thought, or the uniform construction of the sentence, as in the case of the dash, the exclamation, the parenthesis, &c. In these instances the mind is supposed to be arrested by the sudden change of sentiment or passion.

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EXAMPLES.

1. But this very day,

An honest man, my neighbor-there he stands

Was struck-struck like a dog-by one who wore
The badge of Ursini.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us,

(And that there is, all nature cries aloud

Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue:

And that which he delights in must be happy.

But when? or where?-This world was made for Cæsar

I'm weary of conjectures-this must end them.

3. Slaves to a horde

Of petty tyrants, feudal despots! lords,
Rich in some dozen paltry villages—

Strong in some hundred spearmen-only great
In that strange spell-a name.

4. They fought like brave men-long and well;
They piled the ground with Moslem slain;
They conquered-but Bozzaris fell,
Bleeding at every vein.

5. THOU Eternal One! whose presence bright
All space doth occupy, all motion guide,
Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight;
Thou only God! There is no God beside!
Being above all beings! Mighty one!

Whom none can comprehend, and none explore:
Who fill'st existence with thyself alone;

Embracing all-supporting-ruling o'er

Being whom we call GOD!-and know no more

6. Some place the bliss in action, some-in ease;
Those call it pleasure, and-contentment, these.

7. Stand up-erect! Thou hast the form
And likeness of thy God!-Who more?

A soul as dauntless 'mid the storm

Of daily life, a heart as warm

And pure as breast e'er wore.

8. Hush!-Mark!-a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.

9. We are some of us very fond of knowledge, and upt to value ourselves upon any proficiency in the sciences. One science there is, worth more than all the rest, and that is—the science of living well.

10. Heaven and earth will witness,

If Rome must fall-that we are innocent.

11. He woke to die mid flame and smoke,
And shout, and groan, and sabre stroke.

12. Thou art thyself thine enemy:

The great!-what better they than thou?
As theirs is not thy will as free?
Has God with equal favors thee
Neglected to endow?

True, wealth thou hast not-'tis but dust:
Nor place-ancertain as the wind;

But that thou hast, which with thy crust
And water may despise the lust

Of both a noble mind.

EXERCISE VI.

ON SHORT QUESTIONS.

Express the following examples with the same earnestness of tone, and directness of manner, which you would use if the questions were your own, and you felt deeply interested in the answer you might receive.

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What excuse have you for coming so late this morning?

Did he say that he would do it?

How many bushels have you?

Who can view such misery without pity?

Have you seen Joseph yet?

EXERCISE VII.

ON VARIOUS FORMS OF INTERROGATION AND AFFIRMA) (ON

Was his progress quick or slow?

It was slow, very slow.

Did he pitch his voice high or low?

He pitched it high, never higher.

Do you read Greek or Latin?

I have long read Latin, never Greek.

Did they confess or deny?

They confessed and were merely rebuked.
How does your friend look? well or ill?
Well; he never looked better.

How did he move? gracefully?
Gracefully! Yes- -as he always does.

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