graces. What was the cause of our wasting forty millions of money, and sixty thousand lives? The American war! What was it that produced the French rescript and a French war? The American war! What was it that produced the Spanish manifesto and a Spanish war? The American war! What was it that armed forty-two thousand men in Ireland with the arguments carried on the points of forty thousand bayonets? The American war! For what are we about to incur an additional debt of twelve or fourteen millions? This accursed, cruel, diabolical American war!

2.

Again to the battle, Achaians!

Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance;

Our land the first garden of Liberty's tree

It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free;
For the cross of our faith is replanted,

The pale, dying crescent is daunted,

And we march that the footprints of Mahomet's slaves
May be washed out in blood from our forefathers' graves.
Their spirits are hovering o'er us,

And the sword shall to glory restore us.

3. Who's here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who's here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who's here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

1.

RISING INFLECTIONS OR UPWARD SLIDES.

Once upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with its shores,

Cæsar says to me, Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?

2. Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

3. Can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and traveling on from perfection to perfection, after just having looked abroad into the works of his Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at his first setting out, and in the very beginning of his inquiries?

4. Have you never stood by the seaside at night, and heard the pebbles sing, and the waves chant God's glories? Or have you never risen from your couch, and thrown up the window and listened there? And have you not fancied that you heard the harp of God playing in heaven? Did you not conceive that yon stars, and those eyes of God, looking down on you, were also mouths of song that every star was singing God's glory, singing, as it shone, its mighty Maker and his well-deserved praise?

FALLING AND RISING INFLECTIONS

1. Where you see a man meeting obstacles and removing them, struggling with difficulties and overcoming them, and still pressing forward under every discouragement, selfdenying and self-relying, there you see a man who will probably rise in the world.

2. As pants the hart for cooling streams,
When heated in the chase;

So longs my soul, O God, for thee,
And thy refreshing grace.

3. There oft at dawn, as one forgot behind,
Who longs to follow, yet unknowing where,
Some hoary shepherd, o'er his staff reclined,
Pores on the graves, and sighs a broken prayer.

4. Because I live, ye shall live also.

5. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.

6. You may skim the surface of science, or fathom its depths.

CIRCUMFLEX INFLECTION OR WAVING SLIDES

1. Surely they were indignant at this treatment: surely the air rings with reproaches upon a man who has thus made them stake their reputation upon a falsehood, and then gives them less than the lie direct to their assertions.

2. You would not have me make a trial of my skill upon my child.

3. Thou wear a lion's hide, doff it for shame,

And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs.

4. We undertook to mediate for the queen.

To mediate for the queen? - You undertook? —
Wherein concerned it you?

5. What should I say to you? Should I not say, Hath a dog money? is it possible,

A cur can lend three thousand ducats?

6. Now, in building of chaises, I tell you what,
There is always somewhere a weakest spot;
And that's the reason, beyond a doubt,
A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out.

EMPHASIS.

Emphasis is primarily and fundamentally an act of the intellect, the intelligence, not of the feeling. It must seem to appeal to the sight. It has to do with form.

A word or idea is emphasized when it is lifted into prominence in order to arrest attention. Emphasis is used to discriminate the important idea from all related ideas, ex· pressed or understood. This discrimination once made need not be repeated. As a new thought develops or is added the word expressing the new thought must in turn be emphasized.

As related to the three mind activities we can say that the emphasis made by means of an inflection is essentially "mental" and as emphasis itself is the expression of the "mental" activity the inflectional feature of the emphasis must never be obliterated.

When the "moral" factor dominates the emphatic word

or idea takes a pause before it, and the inflection is softened and curved, but never destroyed.

When the "vital" factor dominates stress is added to the delivery of the emphatic word or idea. The inflection is lengthened but never destroyed.

Example for Practice.

MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR.

1. Yes, the year is growing old.

And his eye is pale and bleared;
Death with frosty hand and cold,
Plucks the old man by the beard,
Sorely, sorely.

The leaves are falling, falling

Solemnly and slow;

Caw, caw, the rooks are calling,

It is a sound of woe,

A sound of woe.

Through woods and mountain-passes
The winds like anthems roll:
They are chanting solemn masses,
Singing, pray for this soul.
Pray - pray.

The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain,
And patter their doleful prayers;
But their prayers are all in vain,
All in vain.