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EXCEPTION. When the indirect question, its answer, or a remark, is not at first understood, and a repetition is required, the inquiry is made with the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Who first discovered the American còntinent?

2. What continent did you say?

3. How came this continent to be called Amèrica ? 4. What did you say?

5. What was the first land discovered by Colùmhus ? a 6. What was the question?

7. Where did the first congress mèet? In Philadelphia. 8. At what place did you say?

9. John Quincy Adams b was a great statesman.

10. What man did you say was a great státesman? 11. I was speaking of the climate of Califòrnia, 12. Of what place were you speaking?

NOTE 1. If the answers of questions, whether direct or indirect, are given in a careless or indifferent manner, the voice naturally inclines to a slight upward inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Shall I call at your house at nine o'clock? As you please. 2. Where is James this morning? He has just stepped out. 3. At what time does your school commence? About nine. 4. Have you learned your lésson? In párt.

5. Will you be disappointed if it ráins? Not much.

6. Shall we change séats? Just as you pléase.

7. Have you studied chémistry? Very little.

8. How do you like it? I can hardly téll.

9. How many scholars in school? Some fifteen or twenty.

■ Columbus, (Christopher,) who, in the year 1492, discovered what is now called America. b Adams, (John Q.,) the sixth president of the United States.

QUESTIONS. What is the exception to this rule? Give an exaniple. When the answer is given in a careless or indifferent manner, what inflection is commonly used? Give an example.

NOTE 2. Affirmative and negative sentences are sometimes made to do the office of interrogatives, by uttering them with the circumflex on the words requiring the superior emphasis, and the rising inflection on such words as take the inferior emphasis, thus raising the expectation of an affirmative or negative answer.

EXAMPLES.

1. Your son will surely go to COLLEGE next week. 2. You will visit BOSTON before you return.

3. The doctor did not think him DANGEROUSLY íll. 4. Their children were not left ENTIRELY alóne.

5. Your brother had cŎMPANY on his tour.

6. I suppose your SCHOOL is to commence in a few days.

EXERCISE I.

Indirect Questions without their Answers.

1. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declàre, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measure thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched out the line upon it? Whereupon are the founda

tions thereof fàstened? or who laid the corner-stòne thereof?

2. Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the battles of heaven? Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the spàn, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scàles, and the hills in a bàlance?

3. What are our joys, but dreams? And what our hopes, but goodly shadows in the summer clouds? Where are the heroes of ages past? Where, the brave chieftains? Where, the mighty ones who flourished in the infancy of days?

QUESTION.

How are affirmative and negative sentences made to do the office of interrogatives? Give an example.

4. What things are most proper for youth to learn? Why is our experience, with regard to the misfortunes of others, of so little use to ourselves? Why is it, that we are to learn wisdom and prudence at our own expense? Who will accuse me of wandering from the subject? Who will say I exaggerate the tendency of our measures?

5. Who continually supports and governs this stupendous system? Who preserves ten thousand times ten thousand worlds in perpetual harmony? Who enables them always to observe such times, and obey such laws, as are adapted to the perfection of this wondrous system? What can be more important than an inquiry into the moral government of God?

EXERCISE II.

Indirect Questions without their Answers.

1. Who are the persons most apt to fall into peèvishness and dejèction? What are the scenes of nature which most elevate the mind? What objects are most sublime? What heightens the idea of grandeur? What shadow can be more vain than the life of a great part of mankind? How few can we find whose activity has not been misemployed?

2. Where now is the splendid robe of the cònsulate? Where are the brilliant tòrches? Where are the applauses and dances, the feasts and entertainments? Where are the coronets and canopies? Where the huzzas of the city, the compliments of the circus, and the flattering acclamations of the spectators?

3. Who can describe, who, delineate, the cheering, the enlivening rày? who, the looks of lòve? who, the soft, benignant vibrations of the benevolent eyè? who, the twilight, the day of hope? who, the internal efforts of the mind, wrapt in

gentleness and humility, to effect good, to diminish evil, and increase present and eternal happiness?

When we are

4. Where shouldst thou look for kindness? sick, where can we turn for sùccor? When we are wretched, where can we complain? When the world looks cold and surly on us, where can we go to meet a warmer eye, with such sure confidence as to a mother? The world may scowl, acquaintances forsake, friends may neglect, and lovers know a change; but when a mòther doth forsake her child, men lift up their hands, and cry out, "A PRODIGY!"

5. We might ask the patrons of infidelity, what fury impels them to attempt the subversion of Christianity? To what virtues are their principles favorable? Above all, what are the pretensions on which they rest their claims to be the guides of mankind?

6. Where are the infidels of such pure, uncontaminated morals, unshaken probity, and extended benevolence, that we should be in no danger of being seduced into impiety by their example? Into what obscure recesses of misery, into what dungeons have their philanthropists penetrated, to lighten the fetters and relieve the sorrows of the helpless captive? What barbarous tribes have their apostles visited? What distant climes have they explored, encompassed with cold, nakedness and want, to diffuse principles of virtue, and the blessings of civilization!

7. Oh, wind! where is thy home—

Thy resting-place?

Where dost thou plume thy wings to roam
In pathless fields of space?

8. Whence comest thou with thy songs,
That glad the earth,

And call her myriad infant throngs
Of beauty into birth?

9. Whence is thy strength, that bows

The forests down,

And dashes from the mountain's brows
The ancient, emerald crown?

10. Whence thy tremendous power,

That crests the waves,

And heaves them, shouting, on the sounding shore,
Or marble caves?

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Indirect Questions with their Answers.

1. But, sir, the gentleman has misconceived the spirit and tendency of northern institutions. He is ignorant of northern character. He has forgotten the history of his country. Preach insurrection to the northern labórers! Preach insurrection to me! Who are the northern labòrers? The history of your country is their history. The renown of your country is their renown. The brightness of their doings is emblazoned on its every page. Blot from your annals the deeds and doings of northern laborers, and the history of your country presents but a universal blank.

2. Sir, who was he that disarmed the Thunderer; wrested from his grasp the bolts of Jòve; a calmed the troubled òcean; became the central sun of the philosophical system of his age, shedding his brightness and effulgence on the whole civilized world; whom the great and mighty of the earth delighted to honor; who participated in the achievement of your independence; prominently assisted in molding your free institutions, and the beneficial effects of whose wisdom will be felt to the

Jove, another name for Jupiter, a heathen god.

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