Prince Henry's Purpose. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. God forgive them that so much have sway'd Percy is but my factor, good my lord, -Henry IV, Pt. I, iii., 2. TONE OF ENCOURAGEMENT. (See Tone Drill No. 85.) [The tone of Encouragement manifests an urging tinged with assurance and confidence.] The Onset. BARRY CORNWALL. Sound an alarum! The foe is come! I hear the tramp,-the neigh,-the hum, Sound! The blast of our trumpet blown Have we not sinews as strong as they? Huzzah! Look! They are staggered on yon black heath! Now is your time, men,-Down like Death! Stand by each other, and front your foes! Sound! Bid your terrible trumpets bray! Huzzah!-Huzzah! Henry V Before Harfleur. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; In peace there's nothing so becomes a man But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Let it pry through the portage of the head O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not; I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!" -Henry V, iii., 1. THE TONE OF ADVICE. (See Tone Drill No. 4.) [The tone of Advice has in it something of command, but lacks the insistence of the latter. Sometimes there is a suggestion of deference.] Free Speech. JOHN JAY CHAPMAN. When I was asked to make this address, I wondered what I had to say to you who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that you cannot proclaim. Refuse to accept anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a university. Retain the power of speech, no matter what other power you lose. If you can, take this course, and in so far as you take it, you will bless this country. In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners. you As for your own private character, it will be preserved by such a course. Crime you cannot commit, for crime gags Collusion gags you. As a practical matter, a mere failure to speak out upon occasions where no opinion is asked or expected of you, and when the utterance of an uncalled for suspicion is odious, will often hold you to a concurrence in palpable iniquity. It will bind and gag you and lay you dumb and in shackles like the veriest serf in Russia. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridi culed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged. Polonius's Advice to Laertes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. These few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Bear 't, that the opposed may beware of thee. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: And they in France of the best rank and station -Hamlet, i., 3. |