5. The spirit of rational liberty is moving all Europe. It is human nature, waking in her might from the slumber of ages, shaking herself from the dust of antiquated institutions, girding herself for combat, and going forth conquering and to conquer; and woe unto the man, woe unto the dynasty, woe unto the party, and woe unto the policy, on whom shall fall the scath of her blighting indignation.

EXERCISE III.
Exclamation.

1. O wretched prince! O cruel reverse of fortune! father Micipsa! Is this the consequence of thy generosity; that he whom thy goodness raised to an equality with thy own children, should be the murderer of thy children?

2. Whither oh! whither shall I fly? If I return to the royal palace of my ancestors, my father's throne is seized by the murderer of my brother. Oh, murdered, butchered brother! Oh, dearest to my heart my sight!

now gone forever from

3. Whither shall I return? Wretch that I am! to what place shall I betake myself? Shall I go to the cápital? Alàs! it is overflowed with my brother's blood! Or shall I return to my house? Yet there I behold my mother, plunged in misery, weeping, and despairing. I am ròbbed! I am rùined! O my money! my guineas! my suppòrt! my àll is gone!

4. What a splendid piece of workmanship! What a majestic scene! What a piece of work is man! How glorious are all the works of God! What splendid views of heaven! How majestically the sun wheels his mighty course! Behold the daughter of innocence! what a look! what beauty!

Micipsa, king of Numidia.

what sweetness!

Behold that great and good man! what majesty! how graceful! how commanding!

5. How serenely slept the star-light on thy lovely city! How breathlessly its pillared streets reposed in their security! How softly rippled the dark, green waves beyond! How cloudless, spread aloft, and blue, the dreaming Campaniana skies! Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii!b the colony of the hoar Chaldean! the fabled city of Hercules!d the delight of the voluptuous Roman! Age after age had rolled, indestructive, unheeded, over its head; and now the last ray quivered on the dial-plate of its doom!

6. See what discoveries God causes to spring from the human brain, all tending to the great end of peace! What progress! What amplifications! How nature more and more suffers herself to be vanquished by man! How matter becomes more and more a slave of intelligence, and the servant of civilization! How the causes of war vanish with the causes of suffering!

How remote nations are brought near! How distance is abridged! And how this abridgment makes men more like brothers'

EXERCISE IV.

Exclamatory Questions and Tender Emotion.

1. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature to the massacres of the Indian scálping-knife! to the cannibal

Campanian skies, Campania is a delightful extent of country in the western part af Italy. Pompeii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, discovered and disentombed in 1748 since which time many things have been taken out, and deposited in the museum at Naples. Chaldean, an inhabitant cf Chaldea, a country between the Euphrates and Tigris. d Hercules, the most celebrated hero in the mythological age of Greece, supposed to have died about 925, B. C.

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sávage, torturing, murdering, devouring, drinking the blood of his mangled víctims! Such notions shock every precept of morality, every feeling of humanity, every sentiment of honor.

2. What! does the word come more powerfully from the dignitary in purple and fine linen, than it came from the poor apóstle? What! my lords, not cultivate barren land; not encourage the manufactories of your country; not relieve poor of your flóck, if the church is to be at any expense théreby!

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3. Ah, little think they, while they dance along,

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How many feel, this very moment, déath,
And all the sad variety of paín!

How many sink in the devouring flood,

Or more devouring fláme! How many bleed

By shameful variance betwixt man and mán!

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4. How many pine in wánt, and dungeon glooms,
Shut out from the common aír, and common use
Of their own límbs! How many drink the
Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
Of misery! Sore pierced by winter's winds.
How
many shrink into the sordid hut

Of cheerless poverty! How many shake
With all the fiercer tortures of the mind,
Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse!

5. How many, racked with honest passions, droop
In deep, retired distress! How many stand
Around the death-bed of their dearest friends,
And point the parting anguish? Thought fond man
Of these, and all the thousand, nameless ills,
Vice, in his high career, would stand appalled,
And heedless, rambling impulse learn to think.

SECTION X.

RULE 10. The last pause but one in a sentence, for the sake of variety and harmony, generally has the rising inflection, especially when all the rest require the falling.

EXAMPLES.

1. Be pèrfect, be of good còmfort, be of one mind, live in peace.

2. There is no national debt; the community is òpulent; the government, económical, and the public treasury, fùll.

3. The rocks crùmble; the trees fall; the leaves fáde, and the grass wìthers.

4. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not gò; keep hér for she is my life.

5. True eloquence must exist in the màn, in the subject, and in the occasion.

6. Let me prepare for the approach of eternity; let me give up my soul to meditàtion; let solitude and silence acquaint me with the mysteries of devòtion; let me calmly await the hour of death, and peacefully resign my spirit into the hands of my Maker.

NOTE. When the members of a sentence are followed by a semicolon, a ad require the falling slide, the rising suspensive inflection frequently precedes such pause, the same as in a complete sentence, especially when the member is long, and its component parts are separated by commas.

EXAMPLES.

1. The man of public spirit has recourse to retirement, in crior to form plans for the general goòd; the man of génius, in order to dwell on his favorite thèmes; the philosopher, to pure his discoveries; and the sáint, to improve his gràces.

2. Christianity proposes for our imitation the highest

QUESTIONS. What is the rule for the last pause but one in a sentence? What is the note under this rule?

examples of benévolence, púrity, and piety; it shows that all our áctions, púrposes, and thoughts, are to us of infinite impòrtance; and their consequence, nothing less than happiness or misery in the life to come.

3. On no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lávished, than upon Amèrica. Behold her mighty lákes, like oceans of liquid silver; her móuntains, bright with aerial tìnts; her válleys, teeming with fertility; her tremendous cátaracts, thundering in their sòlitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous vèrdure; her broad, deep rívers, rolling in sullen silence to the òcean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; and her skíes, kindling with the magic of summer clouds, and glorious sùnshine!

4. No man can now doubt the fact, that where the press is fréo, it will emancipate the people; wherever knowledge circulates unrestrained, it is no longer safe to opprèss; wherever public opinion is enlightened, it nourishes an independent spìrit."

EXCEPTION. Strong emphasis sometimes requires the falling inflection on the penultimate pause.

EXAMPLES.

1. I have no desire for office, not even the highest. I am no candidate for any office in the gift of the people of these United States; I never wish, I never expect to be.

2. If you are traduced, and really innocent, tell the ministers the truth, tell them they are tyrants.

3. Law and order are forgotten; violence and rapine are abroad; and the golden cords of society are loòsed.

4. The temples are profàned; the soldier's curse resounds in the house of God; the marble pavement is trampled by iron hoofs; and horses neigh beside the altar.

It may sometimes be somewhat difficult for the reader to determine whether a sentence should be read with the rising suspensive inflection, or the falling. In such cases, he must be

QUESTIONS. What is the exception? In difficult cases, how may you determine whether the rising suspensive inflection, or the falling, st ould be employed'