7. "This proposal is not a mere idle cómpliment. It proceeds from the sincerest and deepest feelings of our hearts." 8. "Howard visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of témples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur; not to form a scale of the curiosities of modern árt; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsáken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries."

2, "From the very first night--and to say it I am bold-
I've been so very hot, that I'm sure I've caught côld!"
3. "Go hang a câlfskin on these recreant limbs!"
4. "What a beautiful piece of work you have made by your
carelessness!"

5. "The weights had never been accused of light conduct.”
Rule on the Monotone.

The tones of grand and sublime description, profound rever-
ence, or awe, of amazement and horror, are marked by the
monotone, or perfect level of voice.
Note.-A monotone is always on a lower pitch than the pre-
ceding part of a sentence; and, to give the greater effect to its
sometimes destroys all comma pauses, and keeps up one
deep solemn note-which resembles the tolling of a heavy bell
continuous stream of overflowing sound,
Examples.

Note.-A similar principle applies to the reading of conces--it sions and of unequal antitheses or contrasts. In the latter, the less important member has the rising, and the preponderant one the falling inflection, in whatever part of a sentence they occur, and even in separate sentences.

Example:-1. "Science may raise you to éminence. But virtue alone can guide you to happiness." "I rather choose

2.

To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.' Exception. When negation is emphatic or preponderant, it takes the falling inflection,-Example 1. "He may yield to persuasion, but he will never submit to force."-2. "We are troubled on every side, yet not distrèssed; perplexed, but not in despair; pérsecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed."

RULE II.-In question and answer, the falling inflection ends as far below the average level of the sentence, as the rising ends above it. In this way, a certain exact correspondence of sound to sound, in the inflections, is produced, which gives to the full downward slide of the answer a decisive and satisfactory intonation, as a reply to the rising slide of the question.

Examples.-1. "Are they Hébrews?-So am 'I. Are they 'Israelites ?-So am 'I."

2. "What would content you, in a political leader?-Tálent? No!-'Enterprise? No!-Cóurage? No! Reputátion? No!- Virtue? No! The man whom you would select, should possess not óne, but all of these."

RULE III, When a question consists of two contrasted parts, connected in syntax by the conjunction Or, used in a disjunctive sense, the former has the rising, and the latter the falling inflection.

Examples.

1. "Does he mean you, or mè?”

-2. "Is this book yours, or mine?"
3. "Did you see him, or his brother?"

4. "Are the people vírtuous, or vicious; intélligent, or ignorant; affluent, or indigent?"

Note.--When Or is used conjunctively, the second inflection does not fall, but rises higher than the first. Example."Would the influence of the Bible-even if it were not the record of a divine revelation-be to render princes more tyrannical, or subjects more ungóvernable; the rich more insolent, or the poor more disorderly; would it make worse parents, or children-húsbands, or wives-másters, or sérvants-friends, or neighbours? Or would it not make men more virtuous, † and, consequently, more happy, in èvery situation ?"

Rule on the Circumflex, or Wave.

The circumflex, or wave, applies to all expressions used in a peculiar sense, or with a double meaning, and to the tones of mockery, sarcasm, and irony.

Examples.

1. "You may avoid a quarrel with an îf." "Your if is the only peacemaker: much virtue in an îf."

In successive questions, the rising inflection becomes higher at every stage, unless the last has, as in the above example, the falling inflection of consummating e. phasis. The last or is used disjunctively, and forms an example to the Bule, and not to the Note,

1. "His form had not yet lost

All her original brightness, nor appeared
Less than archangel ruined, and the excess
Of glory obscured. As when the sun, new-risen,
Looks through the horizontal misty air,
Shorn of his béams, or from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight shēds

On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs."

2. "And I saw a great white throne and Him that sat on it,
from whose face the heavens and the earth fled away; and
there was found no place for them."

3. "Upon my secure hōur thy uncle stole,

With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
And in the porches of mine ears did pour
The leperous distïlment: whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man,
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body,
And, with a sudden vīgour, it doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into mik,
The thin and wholesome blood; so did it mine;
And a most instant tetter bärked about,
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
All my smooth body."

Rule on Harmonic' Inflections.

'Harmonic' inflections-or those which, in emphatic phrases, are intended to prevent the frequent occurrence of emphasis in the same phrase, from becoming monotonous to the ear-are applied in clauses of which every word is emphatic, and are marked by a distinct and separate inflection.

Example." He has been guilty of one of the most shame|ful acts || that ever degrùded | the N'ATURE || or the NA'ME || of MAN."

Note. In such cases the inflections usually alternate, in
order to give the more vivid and pungent force to vehement
emphasis.

Rule on Repeated Words, Phrases, and Sentences.
Words, phrases, and sentences which are repeated for effect,
rise higher, or fall lower in inflection, besides increasing in
force, at every repetition.

Examples.-1. "From these walls a spirit shall go forth, that
shall survive when this edifice shall be, like an unsubstantial
pageant, faded.' It shall go forth, exulting in, but not abus-
ing, its strength. It shall go forth, remembering, in the days
of its prosperity, the pledges it gave in the time of its depres-
sion. IT SHALL GO FORTH, uniting a disposition to correct
abuses, to redress grievances. IT SHALL GO FO'RTH,
uniting the disposition to improve, with the resolution to
maintain and defend, by that spirit of unbought affection,
which is the chief defence of nations."

2. "What was it, fellow-citizens, which gave to Lafayette his spotless fame?-The love of liberty. What has consecrated his memory in the hearts of good men ?-THE LOVE OF LIBERTY. What nerved his youthful arm with strength, and inspired him in the morning of his days with sagacity and counsel ?THE LIVING LOVE OF LIBERTY. To what did he sacrifice power, and rank, and country, and freedom itself?— TO THE LOVE OF LIBERTY PROTECTED BY LAW."