CONTENTS CHAP. I. READING: its connexion with good education Causes of defective articulation Difficulty of many consonant sounds Immediate succession of similar sounds Tendency to slide over unaccented vowels RULE I. Influence of disjunctive or on Inflection RULE II. Of the Direct Question and its Answer RULE III. Of Negation opposed to Affirmation Rule IV. Rising Inflection.—Of the Pause of Suspension RULE V. Of the influence of Tender Emotion on the voice . RULE VI. Of the Penultimate Pause RULE VII. Of the Indirect Question and its Answer RULE VIII. The language of Authority.--Of surprise, &c. Rule. IX. Emphatic succession of particulars Antithetic or Relative Emphatic Stress The spirit of Emphasis to be cultivated A habit of discrimination as to Tones and Inflection Pago Directions for preserving and strengthening them 54 Secr. 10. The Reading of Poetry Gesture may want appropriateness and discrimination 68 EXERCISES ON INFLECTION. Exercise 2. Disjunctive or 3. Direct Question, &c. Conjunctive or 4. Negation opposed to affirmation Comparison and contrast 5. Pause of Suspension 6. Tender Emotion 7. Indirect Question, &c. 8. Language of Authority, Surprise, &c. 9. Emphatic Succession, &c. 10. Emphatic Repetition 78 79 81 81 82 84 88 90 92 98 99 . EXERCISES ON EMPHASIS. Exercise 11–17. Absolute and Relative stress, and Emphatic Inflection 18. Difference between common and Intensive Inflection 110 } 101 EXERCISES ON MODULATION. Exercise 19. COMPASS OF VOICE TRANSITION 20. The power of Eloquence 21. Hohenlinden Battle of Waterloo 23. Negro's Complaint 24. Marco Bozzaris 25. Extract from Paradise Lost 111 116 116 118 119 120 122 123 2 Exercise 26. Judah's Speech to Joseph 30. Eve lamenting the loss of Paradise 35. Conflagration at Rome of an Amphitheatre Croly. 138 42. The righteous never forsaken 45. Miserable case of a Weaver 47. Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem by fire Millman. 162 54. The Bucket-a Cold water Song From the Diary of a Physician. 184 59. The folly and wickedạess of War 65. New social order in America . 225 73. Death of Princess Charlotte 74. Remarkable preservation from death at Sea Prof. Wilson. 210 75. The Bible the best Classic 77. Duty of Literary men to their Country 78. Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson 81. Duties and Prospects of New England 82. The Sabbath School Teacher 84. Character of Richard Reynolds 85. Address of the Bible Society-1816 86. Roman Soldier; -Last days of Herculaneum Atherstone. 232 94. Abolition of the Slave Trade 97. Character of Mr. Wilberforce 100. The last family of Eastern Greenland Montgomery. 254 103. On the receipt of his Mother's Picture 111. Providential Distinctions 118. Spirit of the American Revolution J. Quincy, Jr. 282 . THE RHETORICAL READER. CHAPTER I. READING. ITS CONNEXION WITH GOOD EDUCATION. The art of reading well is indispensable to one who expects to be a public speaker; because the principles on which it depends are the same as those which belong to rhetorical delivery in general, and because nearly all bad speakers were prepared to be so, by early mismanagement of the voice in reading. But the subject is one of common interest to all, who aim at a good education. Every intelligent father, who would have his son or daughter qualified to hold a respectable rank in well-bred society, will regard it as among the very first of polite accomplishments, that they should be able to read well. But beyond this, the talent may be applied to many important purposes of business, of rational entertainment, and of religious duty. Of the multitudes who are not called to speak in public, including the whole of one sex, and all but comparatively a few of the other, there is no one to whom the ability to read in a graceful and impressive manner, may not be of great value. In this country, then, where the advantages of education are open to all, and where it is a primary object with parents of all classes, to have their children well instructed, it would seem reasonable to presume that nearly all our youth, of both sexes, must be good readers. Yet the number who yan |