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2. Spare the father of my children; save my husband. Innocence is seated on his brów, and the milk of human kindness flows round his heart.

3. Peace will be estàblished; confidence will come with pèace; capital will follow cònfidence; employment will increase with càpital; education will be desired; knowledge will be diffúsed, and virtue will grow with knowledge.

4. Knowledge does not comprise all that is contained in the larger term of education. The feelings are to be disciplìned; the passions are to be restràined; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all cìrcumstances. All this is comprised in education; and it is mainly received from a mother's plastic hànd.

In reading the preceding 3d and 4th paragraphs, and others of like construction, some would prefer the upward suspensive slide. The falling inflection, however, gives more force and power to the expression.

EXCEPTION. When strong emphasis with the falling inflection, comes near the end of the sentence, as when the introductory member of any antithesis or comparison requires the falling inflection, the close, or last member of the sentence, takes the rising inflection, or slight circumflex.

EXAMPLES.

1. Covet that popularity which follows, not that which must be rún after.

2. We should estimate a man's character more by his goodness, than by his wealth.

3. If content cannot remove the disquietudes of mankind, it will at least alléviate them.

4. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my són.

5. The inebriate may lose all respect for himself, but surely, he cannot forget his wife and his children.

QUESTION. What is the exception to this rule? Give examples.

SECTION XIV.

Circumflex.

THE CIRCUMFLEX is the union of the falling and rising inflections on the same syllable or word, producing a slight undulation or wave of the voice.

Some elocutionists maintain that this inflection is formed in two ways;

1. They say that the wave may commence with the rising slide of the voice, and end with the falling; and –

2. That it may commence with the falling slide, and end with the rising.

The former, they call the direct wave or undulation; the latter, the inverted.

EXAMPLES.

1. I said he was my friend.

2. Indeed! is he your friend?

If each of these examples is uttered somewhat slowly, with firm articulation and long quantity on my and your, and with such emphasis as strongly to mark the contrast, it is said, the utterance of my will be perceived to exemplify the direct wave, and of your, the inverted. But as it is very difficult for most readers to distinguish this difference, we doubt the expediency of making such distinctions in a work like this; and hence, we shall use but one character to mark this inflection; thus, (~).

This modification of the voice may vary in the upward and downward slides, prolongation of sound, key, and intensity of utterance; the slides being equal or unequal, according to the peculiar significance, and designed effect of what is to be uttered,

In some instances, as we have before remarked, it may be difficult to determine, whether the circumflex or rising inflection

QUESTIONS. What is the circumflex? How may it be formed according to the opinion of some elocutionists? What is the former called? What is the latter? Why is but one kind used in this work? Which is the kind used? How may this modification of the voice vary? With what is the circumflex liable to be confounded?

should be employed. In such cases, however, the sentiment of See Note 2, page 76, and

the piece will be the best criterion. the remark under Rule 4, page 90.

RULE 14. The circumflex is used in language of irony, sarcasm, condition, contrast, and in all peculiarly significant expressions.

The circumflex is rarely used as a distinctive inflection, unless the language involves contrast or comparison of an ironical, sarcastic, or conditional character. The following examples and exercises, therefore, will exemplify its use in each particular specified in the above rule.

EXAMPLES.

Irony.

1. You, forsooth, are very wise men, deeply learned in the truth; wě, wěak, contemptible, měan persons; but you, strong, gållant.

2. Not Ĭ, stay you; and as you made him, hăil him; and shout, and wăve your hand, and cry, "Long live Appius Claudius! "a Rome owes you much, Icilius.b

Sarcasm.

1. You, a beardless youth, pretend to teach a British general. 2. He saved others, himself he cannot save.

3. No doubt yě are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 4. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you.

Condition.

If the world hate you, ye know it hated mě before it hated you. If they have persecuted mě, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Appius Claudius, a cruel, arrogant, and ambitious consul of Rome, 401. B. C. Icilius, a Roman tribune.

QUESTIONS. How may we determine which should be employed? What is the rule for the circumflex? What is said of the use of the circumflex?

Contrast.

They follow an adventurer whom they fear; we serve a monarch whom we love. They boast they come to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error. Yes, they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride. They offer us their protection; yes, such protection as vultures give to lămbs, covering and devouring them.

EXERCISE I.

1. Here, under leave of Brutus,a and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honorable man;

So are they all; åll honorable men,)
Come I to speak at Cæsar's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honorable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke.

2. Really, Mr. President, I am delighted with the honorable gentleman's mode of speaking extempore. I like his speeches a good deal better without his notes, than with them. He has this day thrown all ăncient and modern orators into the shade. I cheerfully acknowledge my own inferiority to the honorable, learned, and surpassingly eloquent gentleman. Had he, in the plenitude of his wisdom, compared me to the Ephraim actually named in the Scriptures, I could have borne it tolerably well; but when he compared me to ether, which, if I understand it rightly, is lighter than thin air, it was really unendurable, and I sink under it.

* Brutus, (Marcus Junius,) a governor of Macedonia, a country of ancient Greece, and head of the conspiracy against Cæsar. He was subsequently defeated in two battles, after which he killed himself, in the year 42.

3. By these methods, in a few weeks, there starts up many a writer, capable of managing the profoundest and most general subjects; for what though his head be empty, provided his common-place book be full? And if you will bate him but the circumstances of method, and style, and grammar, and invention; allow him but the common privilege of transcribing from others, and digressing from himself, as often as he shall see occasion, he will desire no more ingredients toward fitting up a treatise that shall make a věry comely figure on a bookseller's shelf, there to be preserved, neat and clean, for a long eternity, adorned with the heraldry of its title, fairly described on the label, and never thumbed or greased by students.

4. And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked."

5. Cruel and haughty nation! Every thing must be yours, and at your disposal! You are to prescribe to us with whom we shall have wăr, with whom, peace. You are to shut us up by the boundaries of mountains and rivers, which wě must not pass! But you- you are not to observe the limits, yourselves have appointed!

EXERCISE II.

WEALTH AND FASHION.-ANON.

1. "What a pity it is," said Caroline, throwing aside her book, "that we are born under a republican government!"

2. "Upon my word," said her brother Horace, "that is a patriotic observation for an American."

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