cedars of Lebanon. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

EXERCISES ON RULE II.

See Table of Contrasted Inflections.

EXERCISES ON RULE III,

See Rule III.

EXERCISES ON RULE IV, Complete thought in sentences :

1. The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the best incense to living worth.

2. A cheerful mind is not only disposed to be affable and obliging, but raises the same good humour in those who come within its influence.

3. It is one great advantage of classical studies, that, in acquiring the languages of Greece and Rome, we insensibly contract an acquaintance with some of the most illustrious characters of antiquity, and are partially admitted into their venerable society.

Complete thought in clauses:

1. Let your companions be sélect; let them be such as you can love for their good qualities, and whose virtues you are desirous to emulate.

2. I observed that those who had but just begun to climb the hill, thought themselves not far from the tòp; but, as they proceeded, new hills were continually rising to their view; and the summit of the highest they could before discern, seemed but the foot of another: till the mountain, at length, appeared to lose itself in the clouds.

3. This sun, with all its attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe; every star, though no bigger in appearance than the diamond that glitters on a lady's ring, is really a vast globe, like the sun in size and in glory; no less spacious, no less luminous, than the radiant source of the day: so that every star is not barely a world, but the centre of a magnificent system; has a retinue of worlds irradiated by its beams, and revolving round its attractive influence,-all which are lost to our sight in unmeasurable wilds of ether.

Exceptions in poetry.
1. The fisher is out on the sunny séa;

And the reindeer bounds o'er the pasture frée;
And the pine has a fringe of softer gréen,
And the moss looks bright, where my foot hath

bèen. 2. From the streams and founts I have loos'd the

chain;
They are sweeping on to the silvery main,
They are flashing down from the mountain brows,
They are flinging spray o'er the forest boughs,
They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves;
And the earth resounds with the joy of waves!

Concluding series : 1. The spirit of true religion breathes géntleness and affability.

2. Industry is the law of our being: it is the demand of nature, of reason, and of Gòd.

3. You have a friend continually at hand, to pìty, to support, to defénd, and to relieve you.

4. The characteristics of chivalry, were valour, humanity, courtesy, justice, and honour.

5. Mankind are besieged by war, famine, pestilence, volcano, storm, and fire.

6. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends resolutely, and continues a friend unchangeably.

7. True gentleness teaches us to bear one another's burdens, to rejoice with those who rejoice, to weep with those who weep, to please every one his neighbour for his good, to be kind and tender-hearted, to be pitiful and courteous, to support the weak, and to be patient towards all men.

Exceptions, in poetry, to the prevalence of the fall

ing inflection : 1. In the hues of its grandeur sublimely it stood

O’er the river, the village, the field, and the wood. 2.

About me round I saw,
Hill, dále, and shady woods, and sunny pláins,

And liquid lapse of murmuring streams. 3. Their glittering tents he pass'd, and now is come

Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh,
And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm;

A wilderness of sweets. 4.

Sudden mind arose
In Adam not to let the occasion pass
Given him by this great conference, to know
Of things above this world, and of their being
Who dwell in heaven, whose excellence he saw
Transcend his own so far; whose radiant forms,
Divine effulgence; whose high power so far
Exceeded human.

The answer to a question :
1. Hamlet. Hold you the watch to-night?

All.* We do, my lord.
Ham. Arm’d, say you?
All. Arm'd, my lord.
Ham. From top to toe?
All. My lord, from head to foot.
Ham. And fix'd his eyes upon you?
Hor. Most constantly.
Ham. Staid it long ?
Hor. While one, with moderate haste, might

2. Hamlet. Good sir, whose powers are these?

Captain. They are of Norway, sir.
Ham. How purpos'd sir,

I pray you?
Cap. Against some part of Poland.
Ham. Who

Commands them, sir? Cap. The nephew of old Norway, Fortinbras. 3.

Show men dutiful?
Why so didst thou : Seem they grave and learned ?
Why so didst thou: Come they of noble family?
Why so didst thou: Seem they religious ?
Why so didst thou.

Latter member of an antithesis of equal force in

its constituent parts :
1. Says he this in jést or in earnest.
2. Is it the thunder's solemn sound

That mutters deep and dréad,
Or echoes from the groaning ground,

The warrior's measur'd tread?
Is it the lightning's quivering glance,

That from the thicket streams,
Or do they flash on spear and lance,

The sun's retiring bèams? 3. Cæsar was celebrated for his great bounty and generosity; Cato for his unsullied integrity: the former became renowed by his humanity and compassion; an austere severity heightened the dignity of the latter. Cæsar was admired for an easy, yielding temper; Cato for his immovable firmness.

4. The power of delicacy is chiefly seen in discerning the true merit of a work; the power of correctness, in rejecting false pretensions to merit. Delicacy leans more to feeling; correctness more to reason and judgment. The former is more the gift of nature; the latter, more the product of culture and art.

5. Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist: in the one we more admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.

EXERCISES ON THE RISING INFLECTION.

RULE I.

Questions which may be answered by Yes or No. 1.

Is this then worst?
Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?
2. -while they sit contriving, shall the rest,

Millions that stand in arms, and longing wait
The signal to ascend, sit lingering here,
Heaven's fúgitives; and for their dwelling-place
Accept this dark opprobrious den of shame,
The prison of his tyranny who reigns

By our delay? 3. Is there any one who will seriously maintain that the taste of a Hottentot or a Laplander, is as delicate and as correct as that of Longinus or an Addison ? or that he can be charged with no defect or incapacity, who thinks a common news-writer as excellent an historian as Tacitus?

4. Can we believe that a thinking being, which is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of His infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at its first setting out, and in the very beginning of its inquiries ? *

* In long sentences of the interrogatory form, the tone becomes rapid and slight in the utterance of the subordinate parts of the question. The reading falls, in such passages, into the manner of parenthesis. This modulation of voice takes place in the above example, at the word "after,' and continues to the pause at power.

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