EXAMPLES. Will you blindly rush on to destruction? Would you say so, if the case were your òwn? Now can you complain of mè? EXCEPTION 2, Direct questions, when repeated with earnestness and emphasis, also take the falling slide; as, Are you going to Londón? If not understood, I repeat it, thus, Are you going to London? RULE 2. Words and clauses connected by the disjunctive or, generally require the rising slide before, and the falling after it. EXAMPLES. Was it from heaven, or of men? Is this book yoúrs, or mìne? Shall I come to you with a ród, or in love? Is he affluent, or indigent? You are either my friend, or my enemy. NOTE. When or is used conjunctively, it takes the rising slide after, as well as before it. EXAMPLES. Would the influence of the Bible, even if it were not the record of a divine revelation, be to render princes more tyrannical, or subjects more ungóvernable; the rich more insolent, or the poor more disorderly; would it make worse párents, or children, húsbands, or wíves, masters, or sérvants, friends, or neighbors? RULE 3. When negation is opposed to affirmation, the former has the rising, and the latter the falling nflection, in whatever order they occur. QUESTIONS. Give an example illustrating the first exception. What is Exception second? Will you repeat Rule Second? What example illustrates this rule? When or is used conjunctively, what slide is required? What is Rule Third? EXAMPLES. I do not read for amusement, but for impròvement. I did not say a better soldier, but an èlder. Study not so much to shów knowledge, as to acquire it. He did not act prúdently, but ìmprudently. We are not descendants of the Rómans, but of the Sarons. EXCEPTION. When negation is attended with strong em phasis, it requires the falling slide. EXAMPLE. We are troubled on évery side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; pérsecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. RULE 4. When words or clauses are contrasted, they take opposite inflections; the first member usually requires the rising inflection, and the latter the falling. This order, however, is sometimes reversed. EXAMPLES. By hónor and dishonor; by évil report and good report; as decéiv ers, and yet true; as únknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chástened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poór, yet making many rìch; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Her regard to virtue opposes insensibility to shame; púrity to pollution intégrity to injustice; vírtue to villany; resolution to ràge; and órder to confusion. It is more blessed to do good, than evil. I would rather gó, than stày. I would rather wálk, than ride. It is better to stúdy, than to play. QUESTIONS. When the negative clause follows the affirmative, is the slide changed Will you illustrate this rule? Give an example. What is Rule Fourth? Give an example in which the first men ber begins with the rising slide, and the second ends with the falling. One in which the slides are inverted. Kising Inflection. RULE 5. The pause of suspension, denoting that the sense is unfinished, generally requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. The beauty of a pláin, the greatness of a mountain, the ornaments of a building, the expression of a picture, and the composition of a discourse, are to some persons matters of little or no interest. The mild warmth of spring, the merry song of birds, and the sweet perfume of flówers, conspire to regale the sènses. The rising and setting of the sún, the splendor of Orion in a night of aútumn, and the immensity of the ocean, awaken ideas of power awful and magnificent. Her vígor, her cónstancy, her magnanímity, her penetration, her vígilance, and her address, are allowed to merit the highest pràises. NOTE. Sentences implying condition, the case absolute, the infinitive mode used as a nominative, the direct address not attended with strong emphasis, and the close of a parenthesis are some of the specific cases to which the rule applies. EXAMPLES. First, Condition. If, therefore, the whole church he come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unléarned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mád? Second, Case Absolute. His father dying, and no heir being left except himself, he suo ceeded to the estàte. Third, Infinitive Mode. To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength; t‹ consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glóry and brighten to all eternity; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. QUESTIONS. What is Rule Fifth? What are some of the specific cases named in the note to which the rule applies? Fourth, Direct Address. Mén, brethren, and fathers, hearken. It is no surprising thing, sir, that men should sometimes differ in their opinions Fifth, Parenthesis. If we exercise upright principles, (and we cannot have them unless we éxercise them,) they must be perpetually on the increase. EXCEPTION. The pause of suspension, when attended with strong emphasis, sometimes requires the falling inflection, in order to express the true meaning of the sentence. EXAMPLE. The young man who indulges in dissipation, if he does not become roor, is in danger of losing his character. The rising inflection on poor, perverts the sense of the passage, and makes it mean, if he become poor, notwithstanding his dissipation, he will not lose his good character. RULE 6. The expression of tender emotions generally inclines the voice to a gentle, upward slide. EXAMPLES. Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spáke? Jesus saith unto her, Máry. My Mother! when I learned that thou wast déad, I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, RULE 7. The last pause but one in a sentence for the sake of variety and harmony, generally has the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a man of business,then to make up an estate, then to arrive at hónors, then to retire. What is Rule Seventh? Give an QUESTIONS. What is the exception to the rule for the pause of suspension? What is Rule Sixth? Give an example to illustrate it. example. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. A discreet and virtuous friend relieves the mind; improves the understanding; engenders new thoughts; awakens good resolutions and furnishes employment for the most vàcant hours in life. EXCEPTION. Strong emphasis sometimes requires the falling inflection on the penultimate pause. EXAMPLE. They rushed through like a hurricane; like an army of locusts have they devoured the earth; the war has fallen like a waterspout, and deluged the land with blood. Falling Inflection. RULE 8. Indirect questions, or those which cannot be answered by yes or no, generally require the falling inflection, and the answers the same. EXAMPLES. What didst thou answer? Nothing. Where is your màster? Yònder in the tower. Why speakest thou not? Whence còmest thou? For wonder. From the mountains. What dost thou see? The black-eyed Ròman. At whose breast was your dagger àimed? How shall I learn to meet those tèrrors? Who can fathom the depths of misery into which intemperance plunges its victims ? Why should a man be in love with his fètters, though of gold? If thou canst do man good, why dost thou not? EXCEITION. When the indirect question is not, at first, understood, and a repetition is required, it takes the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. Where are you going? To Pòrtland. Where did you say? To Pòrtland. Where is the burial-place of Washington? At Mt. Vernon. NOTE. If the answers of questions, whether direct or QUESTIONS. What is the exception to Rule Seventh? Give an example. What is Rule Eighth? Give an example. What is the exception to this rule? Give a w ample. a |