59. CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. Charles Phillips. 60. DESTINY OF AMERICA. -— - Charles Phillips. 61. EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE. — Edward Everett. 62. THE TRUE KINGS OF THE EARTH.-John Ruskin. As a 219. Illustrative: References to man and nature. rule, on objects referred to, use a downward bend or inflection (§ 50), and sometimes the circumflex (§§ 69, 70). These objects should be articulated distinctly, which will tend to make the predominating Terminal stress (§ 101) short and sharp, or change it to Initial (§ 100). When, again, there is much Drift (§ 154), the Terminal will become Median stress (§ 102). Orotund Quality (§ 135). 66. SUFFERINGS AND DESTINY OF THE PILGRIMS. Edward Everett. Methinks I see it now, that one | solitary, | adventurous vèssel, the Mayflower of a forlorn hòpe, freighted with the prospects of a future | státe, and bound across the unknown | sèa. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the tedious m 8 RC up and prone to br W voyage. Súns | rise and set, and weeks and months pàss, and win WRC ter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore. I see them nów, scantily | supplied with provisions, crowded almost to suffocation | in their ill-stored prison, de layed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route; and now driven in fury h RC pr RC before the raging témpest. on the high and giddy wave. The awful h RC h RC R voice of the storm hówls through the rìgging; the laboring másts C down seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pùmps is 1 LO higher m O m 1 L W heard; the ship léaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow; the WILC to 1 s ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shìvering weight, against the staggered vessel. I see them, escaped from these périls, pursuing their all but desperate | undertaking, and landed, at last, after a 1 во few months' passage, on the ice-clad rocks | of Plymouth, weak | and weary | from the voyage, | poorly | ármed, | scantily | provisioned, without | shelter, without | méans, surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut, now, the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of ad venturers? Tell me, man of military scìence, in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England. Tell me, politician, how lòng did this shadow of a cólony, on which your conventions and W 8 LC 1 tr w B treaties had not smiled, lànguish on the distant coast? Student of hìstory, compare for me the baffled | projects, the deserted | sèttle ments, the abandoned | adventures, of òther | times, and find the во parallel | of this! Was it the winter's stórm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children? was it hard | labor and spare | méals? was it disease? was it the tómahawk? was it the deep | málady of a blighted | hópe, a rúined | énterprise, and a broken | héart, |áching, in its last | móments, at the recollection of the loved and left, beyond the séa?-was it some, or all of these united, 1RC to m 8 RC m s RC that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate? And is it possible that néither of these causes, that not all | combined, were able to blást | this bud | of hópe! Is it possible that from a wm s C beginning so feèble, so frail, so worthy not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress | so steady, a growth | so' BO h and wider wonderful, | an expansion | so àmple, a reality | so important, a 67. NATIONS AND HUMANITY.-G. W. Curtis. (Page 260, Orator's Manual.) 68. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. - John Bright. DIGNIFIED AND GRAVE. 220. Predominating time slow; pitch low; force moderate (§ 116), effusive (§ 112) and expulsive (§§ 115, 119); stress median (§ 102) and in strong passages terminal (§ 101); quality orotund (§ 135). 69. GALILEO GALILEI.-Edward Everett.* (P) There is much | in every way | in the city | of Florence | to excite the curiósity, | kindle | the imaginátion, and gratify | the taste; but among all | its fascinations, | addressed to the sénse, the mémory, and the heart, there was none to which I more frequently gave a meditative | hóur, | during a year's | résidence, | than to the spot where Galileo | Galilêi | sleeps | beneath the marble | floor | of 1 R C w m R C tr Santa Croce; no building on which I gazed with greater | réverence | than I did upon that modest | mansion at Arcêtri; villa once and príson, in which that venerable | sage, | by the command of the In8 C prone m quisition, passed the sad | clòsing years of his life. Of all the wonders | of ancient | and modern | árt, statues | and paintings, jewels | and manuscripts, the admiration | and delight | of áges, there was nothing I beheld with more affectionate | áwe | than that poor little spy-glass, through which the human eye first | *This Selection belongs in § 219. LCF change pierced | the clouds | of visual | error, which | from the creation | 8 f LC and drop to m of the world | had involved | the system | of the Universe. There are occasions in life | in which great | minds | live years of rapt | enjoyment | in a mòment. (O) I can fancy the emotions of h RCF Galileo, when, first | raising the newly-constructed telescope | change to h RC to the heavens, he saw fulfilled the grand | prophecy | of Copêr to h CF hC change nicus, and beheld the planet Venus, crèscent like the moon. (A O) It was such another moment as that | when the immortal printers If LO of Mentz and Strasburg received the first copy of the Bible into 8 LO lift f LC their hands; like that, when Colùmbus, through the gray | dawn of the 12th of October, 1492, first beheld the shores of San Salvadown dor; like that when Le Verrier received back from Berlin the RCF tidings that the predicted planet was found. 1 LO f (0) Yes! noble Galileo! thou wast right: 1 LO "It does move." 1 BO BO Bigots may make thee recánt it; but it moves | still. (AO) Yès, w to tr RC the earth | mòves; and the plànets move; and the mighty waters move; and the great sweeping | tides of aìr move; and the emto br RC pires of men move; and the world of thòught moves ever | onRC wm RC h R C ward | and ever | upward | to higher fácts and hs RC P (0) Hang up I that poor | little | spy-glass; it work. whs RC bòlder theories. drop 8 RC prone has done its Franciscans and Dominicans may deride | thy discoveries | ƒ nôw; (A 0) but the time will come | when from two | hundred | observatories, | in Europe and America, | the glorious | artillery | h fB C wh B C to ff of science | shall nightly assault the skies; but they shall gain no | hs BC W m во and conquests in those glittering fields, before which thîne shall be ƒ (0) Rest in peace, great | Columbus of the heavens! like W m BC W m B C W m BC hìm | scorned, | persecuted, | broken-hearted. In other ages, in distant hemispheres, when the votaries of science, with solemn | acts of consecration, shall dedicate their stately edifices to the cause of knowledge and of truth, | thŷ name | shall be mentioned | with hònor. Moderately Slow Movement, § 225. 85 The Baron's Last Banquet 91 The Dying Christian to his 92 The Burial of Moses 66 66 66 289 66 A. G. Greene, T. B. Macaulay, Dimond, 94 Avalanches of Jungfrau Alp, Robert Lowell, |