quarter of the world, to No! Sir. She has none. we to oppose to them! call for all this accumulation of force? They are meant for us. And what have Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. Shall we resort to humble supplication? Let us not, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Blush, Grandeur! Blush, proud Courts! Withdraw your blaze, Ye little stars! Hide your diminished rays. Fear held them mute. [Alone, untaught to fear, "Behold that rival here!" "A rat! [a rat!] Clap to the door."- Let Sporus tremble. What? that thing of silk? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel! Alas! delusive dream! Too well I know him. Give me another horse.-Bind up my wounds.- Then fly.-What! from myself? Great reason. * Why! * All these sentences have the appearance of being simple declarative sentences, and as such, seem to be at variance with the rule laid down for their delivery: inasmuch as they end with the inferior sweep. But are they declarative sentences? The first is an indirect interrogative, (with the answer implied,) put by the speaker to himself, to assure himself of the real state of things: the second, is the first part or negative of a double compact, with the affirmative opposed to it understood, but implied by the next line; which, because it contained a compound sentence, I have not inserted in the text. Adding the affirmative and subjoining the line omitted, the whole passage will read thus: There is none else by, but Richard is alone. And Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. The third sentence is the first part of a single compact, with the corresponding words and the second part suppressed. Written in full, it would read thus: Then fly. What! from myself? Yet I have great reason, though I should or do not. Why? Lest I revenge. The fourth is likewise a single compact, thus: "To the penitent, indeed, but I am not penilent." Brothers! let us talk together of Logan. Ye aged men! bear ye testimony to the deeds of his strength. Who was like him! Who could resist him! Who may withstand the winds uprooting the great trees of the mountain! Let him be the foe of Logan. Thrice in one day hath he given battle. Thrice in one day hath he come back victorious. Who may bear up against the strong man! Let the young hear me. Let them follow him. Warriors! Logan was the father of Harold! What! old acquaintance! could not all this flesh Bal. You are, doubtless, happy in your prosperity Far. Happy in my prosperity! How can I be? Can prosperity give me back my buried child? Bal. For such a sorrow there is a divine consolation. Have you sought it? Far. A consolation beyond my reach. I dare not seek it. Far. To the penitent.* I, alas! am not penitent. I cannot repent without restoring my ill-gotten wealth to its owners. all my sorrows. Hence Bal. Sir, you deserve them. May they not prove eternal ! RULE VI. The close declarative is delivered with accentual sweeps, the bend at intermediate pauses, and perfect close. (See Rule I, and note: also Plate, Fig. 9.) Examples. The whole multitude of them arose and led him to Pilate. They * See note on the preceding page. who are moderate in their expectations', meet with few disappointments. The rocks and hills of New England will remain till the last conflagration. Rome carefully recorded these requests and intercessions', and smiled to see the nations throw themselves into her arms. Rome was the great'est, the rich'est, the most powerful city in the world. And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. The citizens of America celebrate that day which gave birth to their liberties. The recollection of this event swells every heart with joy', and fills every tongue with praise. It was then that they struck that terrible blow under which the greatness of Persia sunk and expired. Old nations, with different systems of government', may be slow to acknowledge all that justly belongs to us. There are two principles, gentlemen', strictly and purely American', which are now likely to overrun the world. Popular governments and general education, acting and reacting, mutually producing and reproducing each other', are the mighty agencies, which, in our days, appear to be exciting, stimulating and changing the aspect of the civilized world. It is a considerable benefit of piety', that it affords the best friendships and sweetest society. To have a friend, wise and good, to whom, upon all occasions, we may resort for advice, for assistance, for consolation', is a great convenience in life. A late English writer has permitted himself to say', that the original establishment of the United States, and that of the colony of Botany Bay', were pretty nearly modelled on the same plan. The meaning of this slanderous insinuation is, that the United States were settled by deported convicts, in like manner as New South Wales has been, by felons whose punishment has been commuted into transportation. It is a principle amply borne out by the history of the great and powerful nations of the earth, and by that of none more than the country of which we speak, that the best fruits and choicest action of the commendable qualities of the national character, are to be found on the side of the oppressed few. That great man, Luther', gave an impulse to society, which it has ever since preserved. He unfolded to the wondering gaze of men', a form of moral beauty, which had been too long shrouded from their eyes by the timid dogmatism of the Papal Church. It is to protestant Christianity, gentlemen', that you are indebted for the noblest exercise of your rational powers. It is to protestant Christianity that you owe the vigor of your intellectual exertions and the purity of your moral sentiments. I could easily show you how much the manliness of English literature, and the fearless intrepidity of German speculation, and how much even of the accurate sciences of France, may be ascribed to the spirit of protestant Christianity. It is from the influence of this spirit, that the sublime astronomy of La Place, has not been, like that of Galileo, condemned as heretical. The ambition and avarice of man are the sources of his unhappiness. Natural dispositions, or acquired habits', regulate the tenor of our lives. I feel your kindness', and wish for an opportunity to requite it. To the beauty of her form and excellence of her natural disposition, a parent, equally indulgent and attentive, had done the fullest justice. A man may enjoy the present and forget the future, at the very moment in which he is writing of the insignificance of the former and the importance of the latter. The dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chints bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. War, peace, darts, spears, towns, rivers, every thing, in short, in his writings', is alive. Fire of imagination', strength of mind', and firmness of soul', are gifts of nature. Wit, grace and beauty, are captivating. The warbling of birds', the murmuring of streams', the enamel of meadows', the coolness of woods', the fragrance of flowers', and the sweet smell of plants', contribute greatly to the pleasures of the mind' and the health of the body. The diversity of objects, the extent of the horizon, the immense height, the country like a map at your feet, the ocean around, the heavens above, conspire to overwhelm the mind. That faith which is one, that faith which renews and justifies all who profess it, that faith which confessions and formularies can never adequately express, is the property of all alike. A mind bold, independent and decisive, a will despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of self-interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character. He who follows the pleasures of the world, which are in their very nature disappointing, is in constant search of care, solicitude, remorse and confusion. Notwithstanding all the pains which Cicero took in the education of his son', history informs us, that nature rendered him incapable of improving by all the rules of eloquence', the precepts of philosophy', his own endeavors', and the most refined conversation of Athens. His library consisted of several volumes of sermons', a concordance', Thomas a Kempis', Antoninus' Meditations', the works of the author of the Whole Duty of Man', a translation of Boethius', the original editions of the Spectator and Guardian', Cowley's Poems', Dryden's Works', Baker's Chronicle', Burnet's History of his own times', Lamb's Royal Cook ery', Abercromby's Scots Warriors, and Nisbet's Heraldry. With the newly-found continent of New Holland, she embraces under her protection, or in her possession, the Philippine Islands, Java, Sumatra'; passes the coast of Malacca'; rests for a short time fruitlessly to endeavor to number the countless millions of her subjects in Hindostan'; winds into the sea of Arabia'; skirts along the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon'; stops for a moment for refreshment at the Cape of Good Hope'; visits her plantations of the Isles of France and Bourbon'; sweeps along the whole of the Antilles'; doubles Cape Horn to protect her whalemen in the northern and Southern Pacific Oceans'; crosses the American continent, from Queen Charlotte's Sound to Hudson's Bay', glancing in the passage at her colonies of the Canadas, Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick'; thence continues to Newfoundland, to look after and foster her fisheries'; and then takes her departure for the united kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Whatever may be the obstacles which ignorance, prejudice and envy oppose to the doctrines of religion', we ought never to be deterred from propagating them. Whatever talents you may possess', whatever advantages you may have received from nature and education', with whatever perfections you may be endowed', expect only the suffrage of a small number of men. By ascending to an association with our ancestors', by contemplating their example and studying their character', by partaking their sentiments and imbibing their spirit', by accompanying them in their toils', by sympathizing in their sufferings and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs', we mingle our existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age. How men have labored to disprove them. what intellectual power and ardor and acumen, urged on by inveterate hate, have assailed their credibility; what stores of learning have been exhausted, what wit and what ridicule expended, to evince their absurdity; what ferocity of godless ambition, of bigoted power, and even of popular legislation, have been employed to enervate, if not destroy their influence; is well known. Those who fell victims to their principles in the civil convulsions of the shortlived republics of Greece, or who sunk beneath the power of her invading foes; those victims of Austrian tyranny in Switzerland, and of Spanish tyranny in Holland; the solitary champions, or the united bands of high-minded and patriotic men who have in any region or age, struggled and suffered in this great cause; belong to that people of the free, whose fortunes and progress are the most noble theme which man can contemplate. Besides the ignorance of masters who teach the first rudiments of reading, and the want of skill, or negligence in that article, of those who teach the learned languages; besides the erroneous |