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originate in that silent and secret recess of thought which is hidden from every human eye.

RULE IV.

Every inverted period * requires the rising inflection immediately preceding the modifying member.

With this view he framed a reply, as amiable in the manner, as it was well adapted to the purpose.

In the midst of this security, the warrant for their destruction was issued by the sovereign, on whose word they had relied.

RULE V.

A loose sentence + requires the falling inflection at the completion of the sense, that is, immediately preceding the loose clause.

It is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion; which seldom dies, in a mind that has received an early tincture of it.

*An inverted period is that in which the former part forms sense without the latter, though it is nevertheless modified by it.

† A loose sentence is one which consists of a period, either direct or inverted, and an additional clause which does not modify it.

An elevated genius, employed in little things, appears like the sun in his evening declination; he remits his splendour, but retains his magnitude; and pleases more, though he dazzles less.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, but each believes his own.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he

has been in the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess'd, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

RULE VI.

When words or clauses form an antithesis, the opposite parts must have opposite inflections.

Philosophy makes us wiser, Christianity makes

us better men.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist in the one, we must admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
Present to grasp and future still to find,
The whole employ of body or of mind.

RULE VII.

Except in the case of loose sentences, or when emphasis requires the contrary, the last member of a sentence, and that immediately preceding it, must always be read with opposite inflections.

The clearness of the heavens, the serenity of the air, and the soft tranquillity in which nature reposes, contribute to harmonize the mind, and produce the most calm and delightful sensations.

You may strive in vain to catch a breath of

enthusiasm to buoy you up in the arms of death.

RULE VIII.

Interrogations formed with interrogative words, terminate with the falling inflection.

When do you go to college?

What is your name?

What, Tubero, did that naked sword of yours

mean in the battle of Pharsalia?

At whose breast

was its point aimed? What was then the meaning of your arms, your spirit, your eyes, your hands, your ardour of soul? What did you desire, what wish for?

EXCEPTION. When the question is repeated with passion, or with strong emphasis; as

When do you go to college?

What said Popilius Lenas?

Where are you going?

RULE IX.

Interrogations formed without interrogative words terminate with the rising inflection. These interrogations expect an answer by Yes or No.

Are you going to college?

Do you know when the Tower of London was built?

In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
Can storied urn or animated bust

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,

Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

Think you a little din can daunt my ears?

Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds,

Rage like an angry bear?

Have I not heard great ordnance in the field?

And heav'n's artillery thunder in the sky?
Have I not in a pitchëd battle heard

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue?

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