EXCEPTIONS.-1st. When a question of this kind is repeated with passion or emphasis; as,

as,

Are you going to college?

Have you prepared your task?

2nd. When a threat or a command is implied;

Will you do so?

that is,

I will compel you to do it.

3rd. When the sentence appears to be declarative. (In this case, however, the rising inflection may be used.) As,

Did you not do it?

which is as much as to say, I am persuaded that you did do it.

4th. When the question is formed of two opposite parts, separated by the disjunctive particle or. As,

Have you prepared your task, or trifled away your time?

5th. When a series of questions and answers occurs. In this case, the first interrogation receives the rising inflection, the rest assume the declarative tone and take the falling inflection. Thus :

Is intemperate passion your brother's present infirmity? It would be a great pity if the heat of his spirit should put yours into a flame. Does he allow himself in foolish or vain discourse? Answer him not according to his folly. Is he indulging in a censorious spirit? Do not you, by joining with him, confirm the slander; but by every mild and prudent method, convince him that he is wrong, and that you dislike the subject. Is he peevish and irritable towards yourself? Mildness and patience will much more effectually vindicate your conduct, and make him sensible of the superior excellence of your character, than warm resentment or bitter reviling.—TURNER.

Questions introduced by verbs, containing two or more particulars connected by the conjunction or, terminate with the rising inflection, while if the sentence is conjunctive, they close with the falling inflection.

Disjunctive.—Is he in London, or Paris, or Madrid, or Rome?

Conjunctive.— Is he in London, or Paris, or Madrid, or Rome?

In the former, the meaning is in which of these towns is he? in the latter, is he in any of them?

Disjunctive

But shall we wear these glories for a day,

Or shall they last and we rejoice in them?
Conjunctive-

Come hither, hither, my little page,
Why dost thou weep and wail?

Or dost thou fear the billows' rage,

Or tremble at the gale?

RULE X.

The Parenthesis must terminate with the same inflection as the clause immediately preceding it.

Remark.-In reading a parenthesis, the voice ought to be lowered, the inflection but slightly marked, and the words pronounced in somewhat quicker time than the rest of the sentence.*

His spear (to equal which the tallest pine,
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great admiral, were but a wand)
He walked with, to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle.-MILTON.

Pride in some particular disguise or other (often

a secret to the proud man himself), is the most ordinary spring of action among men.

*Antè, p. 49 (note).

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity (all have heard of Aristotle, Cicero, Quinctilian, Longinus), and since the revival of polite learning, the favourite pursuit of European scholars has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Should you fall in this struggle, should the nation fall, you will have the satisfaction (the purest allotted to man) of having performed your part.

Есно.

This word denotes that repetition of a word or thought which immediately arises from a word or thought that precedes it.

RULE.

The echoing word ought always to be pronounced with the rising inflection, in a high tone of voice. We often find this echo in the language of excitement the mind recurs to the exciting idea, and acquires fresh intensity from the repetition of it.

Can parliament be so dead to its dignity and duty, as to give its sanction to measures thus obtruded and forced upon it?—measures, my lords, which have reduced this late flourishing kingdom to scorn and contempt.

On! on! ye noblesse English!

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!

Fathers! that, like so many Alexanders,
Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

MONOTONE.

Monotone is a continuation or sameness of sound upon certain syllables of a word, exactly like that produced by repeatedly striking a bell. It is marked thus (-) and is used in certain solemn and sublime passages; as,

High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Inde

Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Showers, on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat.-MILTON.

Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born.

A judicious application of the rising and falling inflections contributes very much to relieve both the voice of the speaker and the ear of the auditor. This will be perceived in every part of a sentence, but more particularly in the Cadence of Sense-that is, the fall of voice with which a subject or any branch of a subject is brought to a conclusion. The only rules which can be given for forming this cadence, are, that if there are three principal words