ne use' it? Does he gratefully think of the Giver' of all good things? Does he distribute to the poor'! Alas! these interests have no place in his breast.

KULE XIII. When interrogative sentences connected by the disjunctive, or, expressed or understood, succeex each other, the first end with the rising and the rest with the failing inflection.*

EXAMPLES

1. Does God, after having made his creatures, take no further care of them? Has he left them to blind fate or undirected chance'? Has he forsaken the works of his own hands'? Or does he always graciously preserve, and keep, and guide' them?

2. Should these credulous infidels after all be in the right, and this pretended revelation be all a fable, from believing it what harm' could ensue? Would it render princes more tyrannical, or subjects more ungovernable'? the rich more insolent, or the poor more disorderly'? Would it make worse parents, or children'; husbands,

wives'; masters, or servants'; friends, or neighbors'? or would it not make men more virtuous, and, conse quently, more happy' in every situation?

Note 2.-An interrogative sentence, consisting of a variety of members depending on each other for sense, may have the inflection common to other sentences, provided the last member has that inflection which distinguishes the species of interrogation to which it belongs.

EXAMPLE.

Can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after * When or is used conjunctively, the inflections are not regulated by it.

taving just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, aud made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries?

Note 3.-Interrogative sent ces, consisting of members in a serica, which form perfect sense as they proceed, must have every member terminate with that inflection which distinguishes the species of inter rogation of which they consist.

EXAMPLES.

1. Hath death torn from your embrace the friend whom you tenderly loved-him to whom you were wont to uubosom the secreta of your soul-him who was your counsellor in perplexity, the sweet ener of all your joys, and the assuager of all your sorrows"? You think you do well to mourn; and the tears with which you water his grave, seem to be a tribute due to his virtues. But waste not your affection in fruitless lamentation.

2. Who are the persons that are most apt to fall into peevishness and dejection that are continually complaining of the world, and see nothing but wretchedness` around them? Are they those whora want compels to toil for their daily bread'—who have no treasure but, the labor of their hands-who rise with the rising sun to expose themselves to all the rigors of the seasons, unsheltered from the winter's cold, and unshaded from the summer's heat'? No. The labora of such are the very blessings of their condition.

Note 4.-When questions, asked by verbs, are followed by answers, the rising inflection, in a high tone of voice, takes place at the end of the question, and, after a long pause, the answer must be pronounced in a lower tone.

EXAMPLES.

1. Are you desirous that your talents and abilities may procur you respect'? Display them not ostentatiously to public view. Would you escape the envy which your riches' might excite? Let them not minister to pride, but adorn them with humility.

2. 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 in struction. Have you deviated from the path of duty'? The gosper

oder you forgiveness. Do temptations surround you? The gosper offers you the aid of Heaven. Are you exposed to misery"? t con soles you Are you subject to death"? It offers you immortality.

RULE XIV.—The inflections at the note of exclamation are the same as at any other point, in sentences similarly constructed.

EXAMPLES.

1. The Almighty sustains and conducts the univers It was he who separated the jarring elements'! It wa he who hung up the worlds in empty space! It was be who preserves them in their circles, and impels them in their course'!

2. How pure, how dignified should they be, whome origin is celestial'! How pure, how dignified should they be, who are taught to look higher than earth; to expect to enjoy the divinest pleasures for evermore, and to "shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father'!"

RULE XV. When the exclamation, in form of a ques tion, is the echo of another question of the same kind, or when it proceeds from wonder or admiration, is always requires the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. Will you for ever, Athenians, do nothing but walk up and down the city, asking one another, What news'? What Lews'! Is there anything more new than to see amar. of Macedonia become master of the Athenians, and give laws to all Greece'?

2. What'. might Rome then have been taken, if those men who were at your gates had not wantel courage

for the attempt?-Rome taken when I' was consul!— Of honors I had sufficient-of life enough-more than enough.

RULE XVI.-A parenthesis must be pronounced in a lower tone of voice than the rest of the sentence, and conclude with the same pause and inflection which terminate the member that immediately precedes it. *

EXAMPLES.

1 Though fame, who is always the herald of the great, has seldom doigned to transmit the exploits of the lower ranks to posterity', (for it is commonly the fate of those whom fortune has placed in the vale of obscurity to have their noble actions buried in oblivion';) yet, in their verses, the minstrels have preserved many instances of domestic woe and felicity.

2. Uprightness is a habit, and, like all other habits, gains strength by time and exercise. If, then, we exercise' upright principles, (and we cannot have them unless we exercise' them,) they must be perpetually on the increase.

Note 1.—The end of a parenthesis must have the falling inflection when it terminates with an emphatical word.

EXAMPLE.

Had I, when speaking in the assembly, been absolute and indepen dent master of affairs, then your other speakers might call me to ac count. But if ye were ever present, if ye were all in general invited to propose your sentiments, if ye were all agreed that the measures

* A parenthesis must also be pronounced a degree quicker than the rest of the sentence; a pause, too, must be made both before and after it, proportioned in length to the more intimate or remote con Lection, which it has with the rest of the sentence.

then suggested were really the best; if you, Eschines, in particular, were thus persuaded, and it was no partial affection for me, that prompted you to give me up the hopes, the applause, the honors, which, attended that course I then advised, but the superior force of truth and your utter inability to point out any more eligible course ;) if this was the case, I say, is it not highly cruel and unjust to arraign those measures now, when you could not then propose any better?

Note 2.-When the parenthesis is long, it may be pronounced with a degree of monotone or sameness of voice, in order to distinguish it from the rest of the sentence.

EXAMPLE.

Since, then, every sort of good which is immediately of importance to happiness, must be perceived by some immediate power or sense, antecedent to any opinions or reasoning', (for it is the business of reason to compare the several sorts of good perceived by the several senses, and to find out the proper means for obtaining them,) we must therefore carefully inquire into the several sublimer perceptive powers or senses: since it is by them we best discover what state or course of life best answers the intention of God and nature, and wherein true happiness consists.

Note 3.-The small intervening members, said 1, says he, continued they, &c., follow the inflection and tone of the member which precedes them, in a higher and feebler tone of voice.

EXAMPLE.

Thus, then, said he, since you are so urgent, it is thus that I conceive it. The sovereign good is that, the possession of which renders as happy. And now, said I, do we possess it? Is it sensual or in tellectual? There, you are entering, said he, upon the detail.

HARMONIC INFLECTION.

Besides that variety which necessarily arises from annexing certais inflections to senter.ces of a particular import or structure, there i still another source of variety, in those parts of a sentence where the Bense is not at all concerned, and where the variety is merely to please the ear. There are many members of sentences which may be differ. ently pro sunced without greatly affecting their variety and harmony.