7. Art thou a friend to Roderick?-No.

Thou dar'st not call thyself his foe?

8. Is it come to this? Shall an inferior mágistrate, a góvernor, who holds his whole power of the Roman people, in a Roman province, within sight of Italy, bind, scourge, torture, and put to an infamous déath, a Roman citizen? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, the tears of pitying spectators, the majesty of the Roman Cómmonwealth, nor fear of the justice of his country, restrain the merciless monster, who, in the confidence of his riches, strikes at the very root of liberty, and sets mankind at defiance? And shall this man escape? Fathers, it must not bè! It must not bè, unless you would undermine the very foundations of social safety, strangle justice, and call down anarchy, mássacre, and rùin on the Commonwealth!

CICERO.

9. Canst thou bind the únicorn with his band in the fúrrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy lábor to him?

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the óstrich? Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hóok? or his tongue with a córd which thou lettest down? Canst thou put a hook into his nóse? or bore his jáw through with a thórn? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Book of Job.

Rule II. Words repeated in surprise take the rising inflection, and are emphatic.

EXAMPLES.

1. Must I endure all this? All this? Ay, mòre.

2. CATILINE'S REPLY.

"Banished from Róme!" What's banished but set free From daily contact with the things I loathe? "Tried and convicted traitor!" Who says this?

3. SQUEERS.

CROLY.

"Who cried stop?" said Squeers, turning savagely round.

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"I`," said Nicholas, stepping forward. "This must not go on."

"Must not go ón!" cried Squeers, almost in a shriek. 66 "No!" thundered Nicholas.

Call on the class to find five additional illustrations.

DICKENS.

Rule III. Words and phrases of address, unless very emphatic, take the slight rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Sír, I believe the hour has còme.

2. Mr. Président, I desire to offer a resolution. 3. Friends, Rómans, cóuntrymen, lend me your ears. 4. Fellow-citizens, the time for action has còme." 5. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.

Call on each pupil to find one additional illustration.

EXCEPTION.

6. O comrades! warriors! Thracians! if we must fight, let us fight for ourselves.

7. Princes! pòtentates! warriors!

Rule IV. The language of entreaty, coaxing, or flattery, takes the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. ARTHUR IN KING JOHN.

Alás, what need you be so boisterous-rough?
I will not struggle; I will stand stone-still.

For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound;
Náy, héar me, Húbert; drive but these mèn cây,
And I will sit as quiet as a làmb;

I will not stír, nor wince, nor speak a word,
Nor look upon the iron ángerly:

Thrust but these mén away, and I'll forgive you,
Whatever torment you do put me to.

2. MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.

I.

SHAKESPEARE.

Now, Caudle, déar, do let us talk comfortably. After all, love, there's a good many folks who, I dare sáy, don't get on half so well as we've done. We've both our little témpers, perháps; but you are aggravating; you must own that, Caúdle. Well, never mind; we won't tálk of it; I won't scold you now.

II.

I'm sure I don't object to your being a Mason; not at all, Cáudle. I dare say it's a very good thing; I dare say it is: it's only your making a secret of it that vexes mé. But you'll tell me-you'll tell your own Margaret? You won't? You're a wrêtch, Mr. Caudle. HARROLD.

Rule V. Negative expressions, whether of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, take the rising inflection when they carry the attention forward to a contrasted affirmation, or backward to an affirmative statement.

EXAMPLES.

1. I come not here to talk.

Ye know too well the story of our thralldom.
2. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alóne.
It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

3. Tell me not, in mournful númbers,
Life is but an empty dréam;

For the soul is dead that slúmbers,
And things are not what they sèem.

4. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts;

am no orator, as Brutus is:

But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt màn.

5. Cleon hath a million àcres-ne'er a one have I';
Cleon dwelleth in a palace-in a cottage, I';
Cleon hath a dozen fòrtunes-not a penny, I';
But the poorer of the twain is Clèon, and nót I'.

6. FREEDOM.

O Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream,
A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,
And wavy tresses gushing from the cap

With which the Roman master crowned his sláve,
When he took off the gýves.

Armed to the teeth, art thòu.

7. THE OCEAN.

A bearded màn,

BRYANT.

The armaments | which thunderstrike the walls |
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs | tremble in their cápitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator | the vain title | take |
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of wár;-
Thése, are thy toys, and as the snowy flake |
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar |
Alike the Armada's príde | or spoils of Trafalgàr.

8. LIBERTY.

BYRON.

Tell me not of the honor of belonging to a free country. I ask, does our liberty bear generous fruits? Does it exalt us in manly spirit, in public virtue, above countries trodden under foot by despotism?-Tell me not of the extent of our country. I care not how large it is, if it multiply degenerate mén. Speak not of our prospérity. Better be one of a poor people, plain in mánners, reverencing Gód, and respecting them

sélves, than belong to a rich country, which knows no higher good than rìches.

9. WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

What constitutes a Stàte?

Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gáte;

CHANNING.

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned. Not bays and broad-armed pórts,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich návies ride: Not starred and spangled courts

Where low-bred baseness wafts perfume to príde: No; mèn, high-minded mén; men, who their dúties know; But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the týrant while they rend the chain. Thèse constitute a State.

Call on pupils find additional examples.

JONES.

Rule VI. Incomplete expressions, whether of phrases or око clauses, when they carry the mind forward to something to be stated, require the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Born to inherit the most illustrious monarchy in the world, and early united to the object of her choice, the amiable princess, happy in herself, and joyful in her future prospects, little anticipated the fate that was so soon to overtake her.

2. THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

And yet, do you not think, that who so could, by adequate description, bring before you that winter of the Pilgrims, its brief sunshine, the nights of stórm, slow wáning; the damp and icy breath, felt to the pillow of the dying; its destitútions, its cóntrasts with all their former expérience in life; its utter insulation and loneliness; its death-beds and búrials; its mémories; its ap