of bliss, and light, - and - peace, - with which the effluence

- of God's being - would - fill the universe, were - his - royallaw - obeyed in all - worlds - as it is in heaven.

If there were no other benefits - resulting - from the art of reading - well, - than the necessity - it lays us under- of precisely - ascertaining - the meaning - of what - we read, - and - the habit of doing - this - with facility, - both - when - reading silently- and - aloud, - they would - constitute - a sufficient - compensation - for all the labours - we can - bestow - on the subject. There is not an evil - incident - to human - nature, - for which - the gospel doth not provide a remedy. Are you - ignorant - of many - things - which it highly concerns you to know? The gospel offers you instruction. Have you - deviated from the path of duty?—The gospel - offers you - forgiveness. -Do- temptations - surround you?-The gospel - offers you - the aid of Heaven. Are you exposed to misery ?-It consoles Are you subject to death?-It offers you immortality. There is a true - sublime - in delivery, as in the other imitative arts; in the manner - as-well-as in the matter - of what an orator delivers. As - in poetry, - painting, sculpture, - music, - and - the other elegancies, the true . sublime - consists in a set of masterly, large, and noble - strokes - of art, superior to florid - littleness; - so it is in delivery. The accents are to be clear and articulate; every syllable standing off from that.which is - next to it, so that - they might be numbered as they proceed. The inflexions of the voice are - to be so distinctly suited to the matter,

that the humour or - passions might be known by the sound - of the voice - only, where there could not be - oneword - heard. And the variations - are to be like the fullswelling - folds - of the drapery in a fine - picture - or - statue,

O, we are querulous - creatures! Little less

Than- nothing - can - suffice - to make us - happy ;

And little less than nothing is enough

suspects himself - a fool;

Knows it - at forty, - and - reforms - his - plan ;
At fifty, chides - his - infamous - delay,—
Pushes his prudent - purpose - to resolve ;

Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

IV. Adjective Pronouns may now be united to their nouns, or to the qualifying word intervening; and Relative Pronouns to the verbs which they govern, or by which they are governed, to form the next stage of compacted utterance. The compound pronominal adjectives, my own, his own, &c. may be considered as one, and united with their nouns; as-" Come' you-of' your own' accord", —was' it—your own' incli''ning?"

The primary accent will be on the pronoun, only when it is antithetic to some other, expressed or understood; as-" His" words' - come' - from' his mouth,"ours-from' our breast";" or when it is the antecedent to a relative; as— “Every man'—who un'derstands"—the sub'ject-will-say' so." A secondary accent will fall on the pronoun when it is the second syllable before the primary, as—" His' industrious - hab'its;" but if a preposition precede the pronoun, the secondary accent may pass the pronoun, and give prominence to the preposition, according to the sense. In the following sentence, most readers would put the secondary accent on the preposition in the first instance, and on the pronoun in the second. By' his industrious-hab'its-he rose'—to his' distinguished—station."

The principal - rule - for guiding - our choice of words - with a view - to Energy, - is - to prefer - ever - those words - which are - the least abstract, - and - general. Individuals - alone - having - a real - existence, the terms - denoting them - called - by Logicians "singular - terms," - will, - of course, - make - the most vivid - impression - on the mind, - and - exercise - most - the power - of conception; and - the less - remote any term - is from these, i.e. the more specific - or - individual, - the more - energy - it will possess - in comparison - of such-as-are- -more- general. The impression - produced - on the mind-by a "singular term" - may be - compared to the distinct - view - taken in - by the eye - of any object-suppose - some particular - man - near - at hand in a clear - light, which enables us to distinguish the features of the individual; in a fainter - light, - or - rather farther off, we merely - perceive that - the object-is-a man ; this corresponds with the idea - conveyed - by the name of the species; yet further off, - or - in a still feebler - light, - we can - distinguish - merely some living - object; and - at length, these these views corresponding respecthe genera - more

- merely some object;

tively with the terms,

And as each of these views - conveys, -as

-

- an equally correct - impression to the mind, though - each successively is less vivid ;-so-in language - a generic-term may-be-as-clearly understood - as a specific or a singular term, - but - will convey a much-less- forcible - impression - to the hearer's - mind.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp - of power,

And all that beauty, all that pomp - e'er
Await, alike, - the inevitable - hour;

The paths of glory- lead - but to the grave.

He that has long - cultivated - the tree, and - pleased himself - with computing - how much - every sun - and - shower - has - added to its growth, scarcely - stays till the fruit - has reached - its maturity, but defeats - his own cares - by eagerness to reward them.

Know, Nature's - children - all - divide - her care;
The fur that warms - a monarch warmed a bear.
While man exclaims, "See, - all things-for my use,"
"See, man- for mine!" - exclaims - a pampered - goose :
short of reason, - he must - fall,

Who thinks all made for one, not - one

You wrong me - every way; you wrong me,- Brutus ; ·

I said an elder soldier, not a better.

The force of attitude and looks - alone - appears in a wondrously striking manner in the works of the painter and - statuary, - who have the delicate art of making - the flat canvas - and - rocky-marble- utter

the human mind, - and - touch - the soul of the spectator, as if the picture - or - statue - spoke the pathetic - language of Shakspeare. It is - no-wonder, - then, -that-masterly-action, - joined with powerful - elocution, - should be irresistible. Real action is in silent - moments.

life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, - our acquisition of an office, and - the like; but in a silent - thought by the wayside - as we walk; in a thought - which revises - our entire - manner of life, - and - says, "Thus - hast thou - done, but - it were better thus. And

all - our after-years, - like - menials, - do- serve - and- wait - on this, - and, - according to their ability, - do- execute - its will.

V. The Negatives no and not, and Adverbs qualifying adjectives or adverbs, seem now least to bear separation from their respective correlated words, and they may therefore be added to the rhythmical groups.

The negative, and adverb of this class, are generally unaccented, or only under the secondary accent. The negative takes the primary accent in such a sentence; as" To be'-or'—not" to be'," because of the emphatic opposition; and the adverb will take the accent when the degree of limitation rather than the fact of limitation is to be made prominent; as in the latter part of this sentence," It is highly prob"able-very" prob'able-nothing-more" so'."

EXAMPLES OF THE FIFTH Stage.

There is nothing in the universe - that stands - alone, nothing - solitary. No atom- of matter, - no drop - of water, - no vesicle - of air, - or - ray of light - exists - in a state of isolation. Everything - belongs to some system of society, of which - it is - a component - and - necessary - part. Just so - it is - in the moral world.-No man stands alone, - nor - high - angel,

nor

child. All the beings - "lessening down from Infinite perfection to the brink of dreary nothing," belong to a system - of mutual- dependencies. All - and - each - constitute - and - enjoy - a part of the world's - sum of happiness. No one-liveth to himself. The most obscure - individual - exerts an influence - which must be felt - in the great - brotherhood - of mankind. As - the little silvery- circular - ripple, - set - in motion by the falling - pebble, - expands - from its inch - of radius to the whole compass of the pool, so there is not - a child, - not - an infant- Moses - placed, - however softly, - in his bulrush - ark - upon the sea - of time, - whose existence - does not - stir a ripple - gyrating - outward - and - on, -until- it shall have moved across - and - spanned - the whole - ocean - of God's - eternity, - stirring - even the river - of life, - and - the fountains - at which his tall - angels - drink. "To be, or not to be ?"

- is that the question? No.-We are; - and - whether - we live or - die we are - the Lord's; we belong to his eternity, - and henceforth-his moral-universe-will-be-filled-with our existence. Because the soul is progressive it never - quite - repeats itself, - but - in every

tion, but creation is the aim. In landscape, the painter - should - give - the suggestion of a fairer - creation - than - we know. The details, - the prose - of Nature, he should - omit, - and give us only - the spirit - and - splendour. Valuing

more

the expression of Nature-than- Nature - herself, - he will exalt - in his copy the features that please him. He will give the gloom - of gloom, - and - the sunshine-of sunshine. With what stiff - and -pedantic - solemnity-do- some publicspeakers utter thoughts so trifling as to be hardly worth uttering at all! and

- - -

tones and gesticulations do others - apply in delivering what, by their manner of delivery, - one - would be - apt - to question, not only - whether - it is - their own composition, - but - whether they really understand it.

Life swiftly treading over endless - space,
And at her foot-print - but a bygone - pace,-
The ocean-past which, with increasing wave,
Swallowed her steps - like a pursuing - grave.

Look how the golden ocean shines above
Its pebbly stones, and magnifies - their girth';

So does the bright - and - blessed - light - of love,

Its own things glorify, - and - raise - their worth.

VI. Auxiliary Verbs may form the next addition, and be read with their principal verbs as one oratorical word. Should an adverb, or any clause, intervene between the auxiliary and principal verb, such word or clause must stand by itself, and the auxiliary be separated; as-"I shall certainly-avail' myself-of" your kind''ness." "You may' —I' assure" you-cal'culate—on this'."

The primary accent will always fall on the principal verb, unless when the circumstances of time, mode, &c. are peculiarly emphatic ; as-" Go' I mu"st." "I did" believe' him-once'." "I do" suspect' him-not' withstand"ing." can'not be done'."

EXAMPLES OF THE SIXTH STAGE.

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Society - never advances. It recedes - as fast on one side It undergoes continual changes; as - it gains - on the other.

but this change is not amelioration. For everything - that is given - something is taken.

on crutches, but loses - so much - support of muscle.

has got a fine Geneva watch, but he has lost the skill to tell the hour - by the sun. A Greenwich - nautical-almanac he has, - and so being sure

of the information - when - he

wants it, the man in the street does not know