by néglect, or fretting at disappointments, hath not leisure to attend to the necessity or reasonableness of a kindness desired, nor a taste for those pleasures which wait on beneficence, which demand a calm and unpolluted heart to rèlish them. 10. "I perfectly remember, that when Calidius prosecuted Q. Gallius for an attempt to poison hím, and pretended that he had the plainest proofs of it, and could produce many letters, witnesses, informations, and other evidences to put the truth of his charge beyond a doubt, interspersing many sensible and ingenious remarks on the nature of the críme; I remember," says Cicero, “that when it came to my turn to reply to him, after urging eve ery argument which the case itself suggested, I insisted upon it as a material circumstance in favour of my clíent that the prosecutor, while he charged him with a design against his life, and assured us that he had the most indubitable proofs of it then in his hands, related his story with as much ease, and as much calmness and indifference, as if nothing had happened."-" Would it have been possible," exclaimed Cicero, (addressing himself to Calídius,)" that you should speak with this air of unconcern, unless the charge was purely an invention of your ówn?-and, above all, that you, whose eloquence has often vindicated the wrongs of other people with so much spirit, should speak so coolly of a crime which threatened your life?" 11. France and England may each of them have some reason to dread the increase of the naval and military power of the other; but for either of them to envy the internal happiness and prosperity of the other, the cultivation of its lands, the advancement of its manufactures, the increase of its cómmerce, the security and number of its ports and harbors, its proficiency in all the liberal arts and scíences, is surely beneath the dignity of two such great nations. 12. To acquire a thorough knowledge of our own hearts and characters, to restrain every irregular inclinátion, to subdue every rebellious passion,-to purify the motives of our conduct,-to form ourselves to that temperance which no pleasure can sedúce,-to that meekness which no provocation can rúffle,-to that patience which no affliction can overwhelm, and that integrity which no interest can shake; this is the task which is assigned to us,--a task which cannot be performed without the utmost diligence and care. 13. The beauty of a pláin, the greatness of a mountain, the ornaments of a building, the expression of a pícture, the composition of a discourse, the conduct of a third pérson, the proportions of different quantities and númbers, the various appearances which the great machine of the universe is perpetually exhibiting, the secret wheels and springs which prodúce them, all the general subjects of science and taste, are what we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 14. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil léer, And without sneering teach the rést to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; While Wits and Templars every sentence ráise, 15. For these reasons, the senate and people of A 'thens, (with due veneration to the gods and heroes, and guardians of the Athenian city and territory, whose aid they now implóre; and with due attention to the virtue of their ancestors, to whom the general liberty of Greece was ever dearer than the particular interest of their own státe) have resolved that a fleet of two hundred vessels shall be sent to sea, the admiral to cruise within the straits of Thermopylæ. As to my own abilities in speaking, (for I shall admit this charge, although experience hath convinced me, that what is called the power of eloquence depends for the most part upon the hearers, and that the characters of public speakers are determined by that degree of favour which you vouchsafe to each,) if long practice, I say, hath given me any proficiency in speaking, you have ever found it devoted to my country. * * I have not thought it necessary to give examples of the cases in which emphasis requires the falling slide at the close of a parenthesis. Of the various exceptions which fall under the rule of suspending inflection, the only one which needs additional exemplification, is that, where emphasis requires the intensive falling slide, to express the true sense. See p. 53, bottom. In some cases of this sort, the omission of the falling slide only weakens the meaning; in others it subverts it. 1. If the population of this country were to remain stationary, a great increase of effort would be necessary to supply each family with a Bíble; how much more when this population is increasing every day. 2. The man who cherishes a strong ambition for preferment, if he does not fall into adulation and servility, is in danger of losing all manly independence. 3. For if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sòdom,* it would have remained unto this day. 10.] Page 54. Tender emotion inclines the voice to the rising slide. 1. And when Joseph came home, they brought him. the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.--And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is hé yet alive?——And they answered, thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive and they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.--And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's sòn, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me! And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.-And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: *Even in Sodom, is the paraphrase of this emphasis, and so in the two preceding examples. and he sought where to weep; and he entered into hist chamber, and wept there. 2. Methinks I see a fair and lovely child, Till, quite o'ercome with pity, his white arms. 3. Ye who have anxiously and fondly watched Beside a fading friend, unconscious still The cheek's bright crimson, lovely to the view, Like nightshade with unwholesome beauty bloomed, 5 And that the sufferer's bright dilated eye, Like mouldering wood, owes to decay alone Its wondrous lustre :-ye who still have hoped, Even in death's dread presence, but at length Have heard the súmmons, (O heart-freezing call!) 10 To pay the last sad duties, and to hear Upon the silent dwelling's narrow lid *Sabbath,- |