CHAP. I. CHAP. III. INFLECTIONS SECT. 2. Causes of defective articulation Difficulty of many consonant sounds Immediate succession of similar sounds Influence of disjunctive or on Inflection Of the Direct Question and its Answer Of Negation opposed to Affirmation Rising Inflection.-Of the Pause of Suspension RULE V. Of the influence of Tender Emotion on the voice. RULE VII. Of the Indirect Question and its Answer RULE VIII. The language of Authority. Of surprise, &c. Gesture may want appropriateness and discrimination 68 May be too constant, or violent, or complex, or uniform 70 Mechanical variety Judah's Speech to Joseph 27. Joseph disclosing himself 28. 29. Burial of Sir John Moore 30. Eve lamenting the loss of Paradise 31. Soliloquy of Hamlet's Uncle 32. Examples from the Bible 47. Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem by fire 48. The Charnel Ship N. Y. Atlas. Jumes. 227 THE RHETORICAL READER. CHAPTER I. READING. ITS CONNEXION WITH GOOD EDUCATION. THE art of reading well is indispensable to one who expects to be a public speaker; because the principles on which it depends are the same as those which belong to rhetorical delivery in general, and because nearly all bad speakers were prepared to be so, by early mismanagement of the voice in reading. But the subject is one of common interest to all, who aim at a good education. Every intelligent father, who would have his son or daughter qualified to hold a respectable rank in well-bred society, will regard it as among the very first of polite accomplishments, that they should be able to read well. But beyond this, the talent may be applied to many important purposes of business, of rational entertainment, and of religious duty. Of the multitudes who are not called to speak in public, including the whole of one sex, and all but comparatively a few of the other, there is no one to whom the ability to read in a graceful and impressive manner, may not be of great value. In this country, then, where the advantages of education are open to all, and where it is a primary object with parents of all classes, to have their children well instructed, it would seem reasonable to presume that nearly all our youth, of both sexes, must be good readers. Yet the number who can |