Sodom it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tòlerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement, than for thee. 5. Such, sir, was once the disposition of a people, who now surround your throne with reproaches and complaints. Dc justice to yourself. Banish from your mind those unworthy opinions, with which some interested persons have labored to possèss you. Distrust the men who tell you that the English are naturally light and incònstant; that they complain without a cause. Withdraw your confidence equally from àll parties; from ministers, favorites, and relations; and let there be one moment in your life, in which you have consulted your own understanding. 6. You have done that, you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, 5 Which I respect not. I did send to you For certain sums of gòld, which For I can raise no money by vile means; -I had rather coin my heart, you denied me, And drop my bloòd for drachmas, than to wring 10 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my lègions, Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius? 15 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, 7. The war, that for a space did fail, A light on Marmion's visage spread, Shakspeare. The reader will observe, that the notation is more various, as the examples become longer, including more variety of rhetorical principles. With dying hand, above his head, Charge, Chester, Charge! òn, Stanly, on!" 8. So judge thou still, presumptuous!-till the wrath. Which thou incurr'st by flying, meet thy flight, Sev'nfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hèll, Which taught thee yet no better, that no pain 5 Can equal anger infinite provok'd. But wherefore thou alone? wherefore with thee Milton. 9. To whom the warrior Angel soon reply'd. spy, 5 Satan!-and could'st thou faithful add? O name, Allegiance to th' acknowledg'd Pow'r supreme? Once fawn'd, and crìng'd, and servilely ador'd But mark what I arreed thee now;-Avaùnt: 20 Back to th' inférnal pīt I drag thee chained. The facile gates of Hell, too slightly barr'd. Milton. Apostrophe and exclamation, as well as the imperative mode, when accompanied by emphasis, incline the voice to the falling inflection. 10. Oh! deep enchanting prelude to repose, 5 Mystèrious worlds! untravell'd by the sun, Daughter of Faith, awake! arìse! illume 11. -Piety has found Campbell Friends in the Friends of science, and true prayer And in his Word sagacious. Such too thine, 12. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then! 5 To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st. Mòon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, 25 And ye five òther wand'ring Fires, that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run 30 Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix, And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, 40 Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise. 9 · Milton EXERCISE 9. Page 35. Emphatic succession of particulars requires the falling slide. Notes 1 and 2, page 35, should be examined before reading this class of Exercises. 1. He answered and said unto him, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of màn;-the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one;-the enemy that sowed tnem is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the àngels. 2. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit-to another, faith, by the same Spirit;-to another, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit;-to another, the working of miracles; to another, pròphecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tóngues;-to another, the interpretation of tongues. 3. Holiness is ascribed to the Pòpe; majesty, to kings; serenity, or mildness of temper, to princes; excellence, or perfection, to ambassadors; grace, to archbishops; honor, to pèers; worship, or venerable behavior, to màgistrates; and reverence, which is of the same import as the fórmer, to the inferior clèrgy. 4. It pleases me to think that I, who know so small a portion of the works of the Creator, and with slow and painful steps, creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall, ere long, shoot away with the swiftness of imagination; trace out the hidden springs of nature's operàtions; be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career; be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and mòral worlds; visit the several apartments of creàtion; know how they are furnished and how inhabited; comprehend the order and measure, the magnitude and distances of those orbs, which, to us, seem disposed without any regular design, and set all in the same circle; observe the dependents of the parts of each system; and (if our minds are big enough) grasp the theory of the several systems upon one another, from whence results the harmony of the universe. 5. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a |