Five Members.-The society of a discreet and virtuous friend eases and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding, engenders thoughts and knowledge, animates virtue and good resolutions, and finds employment for the most vacant hours of life. Six Members. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! A simple series of more than four particulars, may be divided into portions of three from the last, or into portions the particulars of which more immediately relate to each other; and these portions, considered together as entire related members, are to be inflected like the members of a compound series considered singly they are to be inflected as simple series, according to their number of particulars. Thus : Commencing Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, are the fruits of the spirit, and against such there is no law. Concluding The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. A compound series of more than four members must have the falling inflection on all of them, except the last, if it be a commencing, or the last but one if it be a concluding series. See Examples above of fire and six Members. A mixed series, or series of series, is one of which the parts are so classed together by conjunctions, that they naturally fall into distinct portions, each consisting of a series of particulars or members. The following sentence naturally falls into five distinct portions of similar or opposite words, which portions are here represented in so many separate lines. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The distribution of oceans, seas, and rivers, the luxuriance of fruits, herbs, and flowers, the return of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, not only regular in their approaches, but bringing with them presents, to make their return desirable, the pleasant vicissitudes of day and night, all have a voice, which, by telling man that he is constantly receiving favours, reminds him that he should be ready to bestow them.-DYER, Although the falling inflection is in general better adapted to the compound series, the rising inflection is sometimes more suitable, especially in the plaintive and poetical. CLIMAX. Climax differs from the series, in as much as with the enumeration of particulars, a greater emphasis is required, though not necessarily accompanied by a greater loudness of tone. We are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christians, to protest against this horrible barbarity. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms-never, never, never. In a series of commencing particulars forming a climax, the last particular being strongly emphatic, takes the falling instead of the rising inflection; as, A youth, a boy, a child, might understand it. CIRCUMFLEXES. The Circumflex is made up of the rising and falling inflection combined into one continuous slide, usually termed a wave of the voice. If the voice be so inflected as to begin with the falling and end with the rising inflection, on the same syllable, the sound thus produced is called the rising circumflex: if it begin with the rising and end with the falling inflection, the sound produced is then called the falling circumflex. They are thus marked : the rising circumflex. VOL. I. E The circumflexes are always used to express strong emphasis, irony, contempt, reproach, sneer, or raillery. I would not have a slave to till my ground. But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus Africanus and ourselves with Clodius; all our other calamities were tolerable; but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius. He is my friend. He? what! he! No, sir; you are deceived; he is not your friend; but he is your enemy. Oh! 'tis excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up They that have done this deed are honourable. What private griefs they have, alas! I know not That made them do it: they are wise and honorable, And will no doubt with reasons answer you. QUANTITY. Quantity, the third accident of speech, denotes the relative values of sounds, and also of pauses, in |