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phasis than to pause after it. The hearer is kept waiting, and the mind, being in a state of expectancy, is likely to be more receptive and impressionable. This accounts, in part, for the effectiveness of a deliberate style over a rapid one. The speaker appears to weigh his words, and the hearer is made to appreciate that which is withheld from him even for a moment. It is said that a person who is thoroughly in earnest will emphasize correctly and naturally.

RULES FOR EMPHASIS

Emphasize:

1. The leading idea of a new thought.

2. Important words.

3. Words used to establish a comparison.

4. Conjunctions and introductory words making a sud den turn in the thought.

5. In emphatic repetition.

6. In unexpressed antithesis.

7. Usually both words of an antithesis.

Don't emphasize:

1. Expletives.

2. Words that simply carry the thought forward. 3. When false antithesis will be suggested.

EXAMPLES FOR ANALYSIS AND PRACTISE

1. To do most, we must employ the most we have to do it with, and not set small functions on great tasks. Attempting the great with the great we do the great; so that one should be all at it, and at it all, doing all he can, and at all he has to do. AUSTIN BIERBROWER.

"How to Succeed."

2. Tho I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And tho I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And tho I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and tho I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

"1 Corinthians, 13."

THE BIBLE.

3. Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.

The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good;

And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw;
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite;

Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age.
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
"Essay on Man.”
ALEXANDER POPE.

4. From these walls a spirit shall go forth that shall survive, when this edifice shall be like an unsubstantial pageant faded. It shall go forth, exulting in, but not abusing, its strength. It shall go forth, remembering, in the days of its prosperity, the pledges it gave in the time of its depression. It shall go forth, uniting a disposition to correct abuses, to redress grievances. It shall go forth, uniting the disposition to improve, with the resolution to maintain and defend, by that spirit of unbought affection which is the chief defense of nations.

What was it, fellow citizens, which gave to Lafayette his spotless fame? The love of liberty. What has consecrated his memory in the hearts of good men? The love of liberty. What nerved his youthful arm with strength, and inspired him, in the morning of his days, with sagacity and counsel? The living love of liberty. To what did he sacrifice power, and rank, and country, and freedom itself? To the love of liberty protected by law. . . Listen, Americans, to the lesson which seems borne to us on the very air we breathe while we perform these dutiful rites. Ye winds, that wafted the pilgrims to the land of promise, fan in their children's hearts the love of freedom! Blood which our fathers shed, cry from the ground-echoing arches of this renowned hall, whisper back the voices of other days-glorious Washington! break the long silence of that votive canvas; speak, speak, marble lips; teach us the love of liberty protected by law! "Eulogy on Lafayette." EDWARD EVERETT.

5. A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown,
Throned upon straw, and mantled with the wind.
For pity my own tears have made me blind,
That I might never see my children's frown;
And maybe madness, like a friend, has thrown
A folded fillet over my dark mind,

So that unkindly speech may sound for kind:
Albeit I know not; I am childish grown,
And have not gold to purchase wit withal.
I, that have once maintained most royal state
A very bankrupt now, that may not call
My child, my child! all beggared, save in tears
Wherewith I daily weep an old man's fate;
Foolish, and blind, and overcome with years.

"King Lear."

6. The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;

HOOD.

His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this scept'red sway,

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;

It is an attribute to God himself;

And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

"The Merchant of Venice."

SHAKESPEARE.

7. Any material object which can give us pleasure in the simple contemplation of its outward qualities without any direct and definite exertion of the intellect, I call in some way, or in some degree, beautiful. Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for which no farther reason can be given than the simple will of the Deity that we should be so created.

"Modern Painters."

RUSKIN.

8. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. "The Merchant of Venice."

INFLECTION

SHAKESPEARE.

Inflection or slide of the voice indicates the tendency or direction of a speaker's mind. When the tendency is to anticipate, suspend, contrast, or hold the thought open, the voice naturally takes a rising inflection. When the tendency is to emphasize or complete a thought, the voice takes a falling inflection. The possession of "a musical ear” is of

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