Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;

I will be master of what is mine own.

It is not now as it hath been of yore;

Turn wheresoe'er I may,

By night or day,

The things which I have seen, I now can see no more.

Thou art no child of fancy; thou
The very look dost wear,

That gave enchantment to a brow,
Wreathed with luxuriant hair.

Grudge not, ye rich, (since luxury must have
His dainties, and the world's more numerous half
Lives by contriving delicates for you,)

Grudge not the cost; ye little know the cares,
The vigilance, the labor, and the skill
That day and night are exercised, and hang
Upon the ticklish balance of suspense,
That ye may garnish your profuse regales
With summer fruits brought forth by wintry suns.

4. With the second, third and fourth omitted.

You would not select the public firebrand'; you would not seek your seconds in the tavern, or in the brothel'; you would not inquire out the man who was oppressed with debts, contracted by licentiousness, debauchery, and every species of profligacy. [Who, sir, were Cæsar's seconds in his undertakings ]

[And what is our country ] It is not the East with her hills and valleys, with her countless sails, and the rocky ramparts of her shores'; it is not the North with her thousand villages, and her harvest home, with her frontiers of the lake and the ocean'; it is not the West with her forest-sea, with her beautiful Ohio, and her majestic Missouri'; nor yet is it the South, opulent in the mimic snow of the cotton, in the rich plantation of the rustling cane, and in the golden robes of the rice-fields.

They did not know, that every town and village in America had discussed the great questions at issue for itself, and in its townmeetings and committees of correspondence and safety, had come to the resolution that America must not be taxed by. England; the English government did not understand, (we hardly understood, ourselves, till we saw it in action,) the operation of a state of society, where every man is or may be a freeholder, a voter for every elective office, a candidate for every one; where the means of a good education are universally accessible; where the artificial dis

tinctions of society are known but in a slight degree; where glaring contrasts of condition are rarely met with; where few are raised by the extreme of wealth above their fellow men, and fewer sunk by the extreme of poverty beneath it: the English ministry had not reasoned on the natural growth of such a soil; that it could not permanently bear either a colonial or monarchical government; that the only true and native growth of such a soil was a perfect independence, and intelligent republicanism.

5. With the second and fourth omitted.

I am not come to destroy', but to fulfil.

Labor not for the meat that perisheth', but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life.

It was not enough for him to stand on the defensive'; he felt that he must become the assailant, and return blow for blow.

The method of our salvation is not left to the random caprices of human thought, and human fancy'; it is a method devised and made known to us by unsearchable wisdom.

He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one in wardly'; and circumcision is that of the heart`: in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

We do not recognise in her the Christian who has attained to the perfect liberty of God's children, but the exact type of those souls, at all times so numerous, and especially among her sex, who, drawn powerfully to look to heaven, have not strength sufficient to disengage themselves entirely from the bondage of earth.

We pay no homage at the tomb of kings to sublime our feelings, we trace no line of illustrious ancestors to support our dignity, we recur to no usages, sanctioned by the authority of the great, to protract our rejoicing'; no';* we love liberty: we glory in the rights of men we glory in independence.

His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world, by the peculiarities of studies and professions, which can operate but upon small numbers, or by the accidents of transient fashions, or temporary opinions; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity: such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find.

No wars have ravaged these lands and depopulated these villages'; no civil discords have been felt'; no disputed succession'; no religious rage'; no merciless enemy'; no affliction of Providence, which, while it scourged for the moment, cut off the sources of resuscitation'; no voracious and poisonous monsters'; no'; all this

* We do nothing like this, but, &c.
It was not any of these, but all, &c.

}

See the Second Sentence below, and 3d Note under

Rule.

has been accomplished by the friendship, generosity and kindness of the English nation.

Society, in this country, has not made its progress like Chinese skill, by a greater acuteness of ingenuity in trifles'; it has not merely lashed itself to an increased speed round the old circles of thought and action; but it has assumed a new character'; it has raised itself from beneath governments to a participation in governments'; it has mixed moral and political objects with the daily pursuits of individual men'; and, with a freedom and strength before altogether unknown, it has applied to these objects the whole power of the human understanding.

We do not pray to instruct or advise God; not to tell him news, or inform him of our wants; nor do we pray by dint of argument to persuade God and bring him to our bent; nor that, by fair speech, we may cajole him, or move his affections oward us by pathetical orations'; not for any such purpose are we obliged to pray'; but because it becometh and behooveth us so to do; because it is a proper instrument of bettering, ennobling and perfecting our souls; because it breedeth most holy affections, and pure satisfactions, and worthy resolutions: because it fitteth us for the enjoyment of happiness, and leadeth us thither: for such ends devotion is prescribed.*

Then waited not the murderer for the night',

But smote his brother down in the bright day.

Not for these sad issues

Was man created', but to obey the law

Of life and hope and action.

Nor rural sights alone', but rural sounds

Exhilarate the spirit, and restore

The tone of languid nature.

Man hath no part in all this glorious work;

The hand, that built the firmament, hath heaved

And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown these slopes
With herbage planted their island-groves,

And hedged them round with forests.

He, who has tamed the elements, shall not live
The slave of his own passions; he, whose eye
Unwinds the eternal dances in the sky,

And in the abyss of brightness dares to span

The nors in this sentence are equivalent to intensive particles, (see Rule VII, Exc. 3) but the tendency to partial close should be resisted until the last of them is reached. The last member of the first part is equivalent to no simply. (See Rule VIII, 3.)

The sun's broad circle, rising yet more high,
In God's magnificent works his will shall scan.

Then let us not think hard

One easy prohibition, when we enjoy

Free leave so large to all things else, and choice
Unlimited of manifold delights;

But let us ever praise him, and extol

His bounty following our delightful task

Το

prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers

I do not mean to wake the gloomy form
Of superstition, dressed in wisdom's garb,
To damp your tender hopes; I do not mean
To bid the jealous thunderer fire the heavens,
Or shapes infernal rend the groaning earth,
To fright you from your joys; my cheerful song
With better omens calls you to the field:
Pleased with your generous ardor in the chase,
And warm like you.

The Sovereign Maker said,

That not in humble, nor in brief delight,

Not in the fading echoes of renown,

Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap,
The soul should find enjoyment; but from these,
Turning disdainful to an equal good,

Through all the ascent of things to enlarge her view,
Till every bound at length should disappear,

And infinite perfection close the scene.

It is not much that to the fragrant blossom,

The ragged brier should change, the bitter fir
Distil Arabian myrrh ;

Nor that, upon the wintry desert's bosom,

The harvest should rise plenteous, and the swain

Bear home the abundant grain;

But come and see the bleak high hills and mountains,

Thick to their tops with roses: come and see

Leaves on the dry dead tree:

The perished plant, set out by living fountains
Grows fruitful; and beauteous branches rise,
Forever, toward the skies.

6. With the second alone omitted.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal';

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven'; where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal'; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof, neither* yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members, as instruments of righteousness unto God; for sin shall not have dominion over you.

Nay'; but it's really true:

I had it from good hands, and so may you.

[Officer. [What may this mean? let us pass on: we stop not. Whate'er betide.]

Rayner. Nay', but you do'; for here there is a power
Stronger than law or judgment.

III. THE LOOSE DECLARATIVE SENTENCE.

RULE IX. The parts of a loose sentence, whether perfect or imperfect, should be successively delivered in a very slightly lower tone of voice, and terminated with partial close, except the last; which of course ends with perfect close. (See Plate, Fig. 11, a. b. c.)

The parts separately considered must be delivered like the species or variety to which they belong; and I need scarcely say, they may belong to any of the species and varieties of declarative sentences hitherto passed under review. Thus, in the first example below, we have a single compact, 2d form, in the first part, and a close in the second: in the second example, a close in the first, a fragmentary simple declarative in the second, and a complete simple declarative in the third part: in the third example, we have a simple declarative in the first part, and the first part of a double compact comprising three members, in the second. State the nature of the sentences in the parts of the succeeding examples.

The first part of this rule applies more particularly to loose sentences of no great length. When long, it will be found necessary to deliver them, except toward the last, nearly in the same tone. For perfect and partial close, see Ch. III. Modulation.

1. Perfect Loose.
Examples.

I speak as to wise men': judge ye what I say.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity': these three`; but the greatest of these is charity.

Receive us': we have wronged no man', we have corrupted no man', we have defrauded no man.

I am crucified with Christ': nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me`; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I

* See preceding note on nor.