EXERCISE.

BEAUTY AND SUBLIMITY OF SCOTTISH SCENERY.

RICHMOND.

1. The exquisite beauty and sublimity of this country, almost makes a pen move of itself. Never did I pass so beautiful a day as this at the lakes. I shall sing the praises of October, as the loveliest of months. This morning, at six o'clock, I was walking on the banks of Winandermere,a to catch a sun-rise. 2. I had every thing I could wish, and observed the progress of the day with delight. The mysterious rolling of clouds across the hills, announced the first influence of the sun. Tints, the most beauteous, skirted the eastern clouds; those on the west caught them as by sympathy. Various patches of mountains soon gleamed with the reflection of the yet unseen luminary; and such innumerable vicissitudes of light and shade filled the scene, as no tongue can describe.

3. The lake, in all its length of thirteen miles, lay beneath me, with its thirty islands. I heard the early lowing of the cows, the bleating of the sheep, the neighing of the horses, the twittering of the birds, the rustling of the breeze, the rippling of the water, and the dashing of the oar, in a gentle kind of harmony. The sun advanced, and threw a blaze of magnificent luster over this landscape.

4. I crossed over the lake, and passed through rich scenes of wonder and loveliness. Clusters of mountains and lesser hills, clothed with crags, brown fern, red lichens, green grass, purple heath, barren gulleys, cascades, wild streaks, rolling mists, and bright sunshine, presented incessant variety. Hill

Mere, a lake, and Winander, the name of its owner.

towered above hill; Alpine peaks reared their heads; groves filled the valleys, and cottages were sprinkled in wild profusion.

5. While standing on an eminence, and looking down on the exquisitely lovely lake of Grasmere, environed by its amphitheater of mountains, a momentary shower produced a rainbow. It extended from hill to hill over the valley, and seemed like a bridge for angels, to pass over from one district of Paradise to another.

SECTION III.

RULE 2. A succession of emphatic words, or particulars, usually requires a gradual increase of emphatic force on each succeeding word or particular.

EXAMPLES.

1. His hope, his HAPPINESS, his very LIFE, hung on the next words from those lips.

2. Disease, poverty, DISAPPOINTMENT, and even SHAME, are far from being, in all instances, the unavoidable doom of man 3. A day, an HOUR of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole ETER NITY in bondage.

4. Since concord was lost, friendship was lost, FIDELITY was lost, LIBERTY was lost, ALL was lost.

NOTE. The specification of particulars, such as counting, enumerating, and the like, requires sufficient emphatic utterance to mark the several distinctions.

EXAMPLES.

1. One, two, three, four, &c.

First, second, third, fourth, &c. 2. Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, &c. 3. Second epistle of Peter, fourth chapter, and ninth and tenth verses.

QUESTIONS. What is the rule for a succession of emphatic words or particulars > Give an example. What is said of the specification of particulars, such as counting, &c.

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4. You will find my quotation in Josephus,a book first, chapter

second, and section third.

EXERCISE.

1. Regularity, proportion, ORDER, and COLOR, contribute to grandeur, as well as beauty.

2. Beauty, strength, YOUTH, and OLD AGE, lie undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.

3. Valor, humanity, COURTESY, JUSTICE, and HONOR, were the characteristics of chivalry.

4. 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.

5. The roaring of the winds, the rushing of the waters, the darkness of the night, all conspired to overwhelm his guilty spirit with dread.

6. The splendor of the firmament, the verdure of the earth, the fragrance of flowers, and the music of birds, conspire to elevate the affections, and captivate the heart.

7. An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style of writing, is always considered faulty; while perspicuity, strength, neatness, and simplicity, are beauties at which the writer should aim.

8. There is no enjoyment of property without government; no government without a magistrate; no magistrate without obedience; and no obedience where every one acts as he pleases.

9. Were we united to beings of a more exalted order; beings

a Josephus, a celebrated Jewish historian, born A. D. 37, at Jerusalem. He was of the order of the priesthood.

whose nature raised them superior to misfortune, placed hem beyond the reach of disease and death, who were not the dupes of passion and prejudice, all of whose views were enlarged, whose goodness was perfected, and whose spirit breathed nothing but love and friendship, then would the evils of which we now complain, cease to be felt.

10. When I consider the period at which this prosecution is brought forward; when I behold the extraordinary safeguard of soldiers; when I catch the throb of public anxiety; when I reflect what may be the fate of a man of the most beloved personal character; of one of the most respected families; himself the only individual of that family, I may almost say of that country, who can look at that possible fate with unconcern.

PANEGYRIC ON SHERIDAN'S ELOQUENCE.

BURKE.a

1. He has this day surprised the thousands who hung with rapture on his accents, by such an array of talents, such an exhibition of capacity, such a display of powers, as are unparalleled in the annals of oratory; a display that reflects the highest honor upon himself, luster upon letters, renown upon parliament, and glory upon the country.

2. Of all species of rhetoric, of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed or recorded, either in ancient or modern times; whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, the solidity of the judgment-seat, and the sacred morality of the pulpit, have hitherto furnished, nothing has surpassed, nothing has equaled, what we have this day heard in Westminster b hall.

Burke, (Edmund,) a writer, orator, and statesman, of great eminence. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1730. b Westminster hall, one of the largest rooms in Europe unsupported by pillars, being 270 feet in length, 90 feet in height, and 74

3. No holy seer of religion, no sage, no statesman, no orator, no man of any literary description whatever, has come up, in the one instance, to the pure sentiments of morality; or, in the other, to that variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos and sublimity of conception, to which we have this day listened with ardor and admiration. From poetry up to eloquence, there is not a species of composition of which a complete and perfect specimen might not, from that single speech, be culled and collected.

SECTION IV.

RULE 3. The repetition of any word, rendered important by its connection in a sentence, usually requires an increased force of utterance.

EXAMPLES.

1. You circulated that false report, you, sir.

2. They will never submit to your dictation, never, NEVER. 3. Treason! cried the speaker; treason, TREASON, TREASON, re-echoed from every part of the house.

4. It was Homer a who gave laws to the artist; it was Homer who inspired the poet; it was HOMER who thundered in the senate; and, more than all, it was HOMER who was sung by the people; and hence, a nation was cast into the mold of one mighty mind; and the land of the Iliad,b became the region of taste, the birth-place of arts.

in breadth. It was built by William II., in 1097, and repaired, with many alterations, by Richard II., in 1397. It is situated in Westminster, in the western part of the city of London.

a Homer, a Greek poet, who flourished about 850, B. C. b Iliad, an epic poem, written by Homer.

QUESTION. How should the repetition of a word usually be read?