into THREE CLASSES.

The First, and altogether the most prises all positive assertions and impera ideas in contrast with negative ones, de concessions, and all subordinate clauses to the positiveness of the main ideas. POSITIVE IDEAS.

The Second class includes all simple to assertions, all negative, in contrast w cessions in contrast with denials, and ideas as take something from the positiv ideas. This class we call NEGATIVE ID The Third class is comparatively une ideas too well known to be asserted and tioned, which therefore should have n the rising slide, which are clearly un sumed, and so spoken naturally with t This class we call NEUTRAL IDEAS.

To this class belong also those othe which form no distinctive part of the tho circumstances, incomplete in sense, or pa

Principles for the Infle Positive ideas should have the fall Negative ideas should have the ris Neutral ideas should be read with th

The emphatic slides vary in length w and the special emphasis required. T the expression of unemotional ideas; lo and noble ideas; very long, in impassio and pathetic utterance they are short.

EXAMPLES.

1. Nature rallied the wasting powers grave, for a brief period. But it was He had left no duty unperformed`; he fied; no ambition unattained; no re fear, no remorse. He could not shake

ed on his brow. He could not pierce the thick it rose up before him. But he knew that eternity` by the shores of time. Eloquence even at that red him with his ancient sublimity of utterance. said the dying man, "this is the END of earth.” for a moment, and then added, "I am content`."

W. H. Seward, Death of J. Q. Adams.

y tell us, sir, that we are weak`, — unable to cope ormidable an adversary. But when shall we be

? Will it be the next week', or the next year ́? e when we are totally disarmed', and when a hard shall be stationed in every house? Shall strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we he means of effectual resistance by lying supinely acks, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, enemies shall have bound us hand and foot"? › are not` weak, if we make a proper use of those hich the God of nature` hath placed in our power. llions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty`, _ch a country as that which we possess, are invincible` orce which our enemy can send against us. - Henry.

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voice falls on 'year' in the question above; as, be the next week', or the next year?" one idea positive, as if the answer might be 'next week’or ar`.' But both are negative in Henry's mind, and uld therefore be read with the rising slide.

ssions, in Contrast with Assertions, take the Rising

Louis. What! so haughty?

nember, he who made can unmake.

Rich. Never! your anger can recall your trust, ul my office, spoil me of my lands ́,

e my coffers, but my name`, my deeds`, royal in a land beyond your scepter!

Bulwer, Richelieu.

are

the charter of independence is, indee quent lips that sustained it are hushed that conceived, resolved, and maintain to such men make it life to live ), thes Cold in the dust the perished But that which warmed it onc Everett, Eu

Sometimes a whole stanza is assum with the suspense, as in "Paul Revere 5. You know the rest. In the bo How the British Regulars fired a How the farmers gave them ball From behind each fence and farm Chasing the red-coats down the la Then crossing the fields to emerg Under the trees at the turn of the And only pausing to fire and load

When the sentence ends with the r trast, the negative idea has the same precedes the positive.

I have bought

den opinions from all sorts of people,

it would be worn now in their NEWEST gloss,

cast aside so soon.

Shakespeare, Macbeth.

nly the negative part of an antithesis is expressed, ould be read with the rising emphasis to suggest the ea, as in Longfellow's lines,

jail forth into the sea, O ship!

Through wind and wave right onward steer!

The moistened eye, the trembling lip,

Are not the signs of doubt or fear."

"Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul"."

Antithetical Ideas.

ilip. But if we fail'

ael.

They NEVER fail who die

GREAT CAUSE! The block may soak their gore;

- heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs rung to city gates and castle walls",

still their spirit walks abroad`.

Byron, Marino Faliero.

ttention it is (though other qualities belong to this lent power), attention it is, that is the very soul` `; not the fixed eye, not the poring over a book ́, xed thought. - Dewey.

The people whom Lafayette came to succor were not ple; he knew them only in the melancholy story of ongs. He was no mercenary wretch ́, striving for I of the vanquished; the palace acknowledged him ord, and the valleys yielded him their increase`. He hameless man, staking life for reputation; he ranked nobles`, and looked unawed upon kings`. — Sprague.

17.

'Fire!'

"Shoot, if you must, this old We But spare your COUNTRY'S F 18. "Horatio. O day and night, strange!

Hamlet. And therefore as a stra There are more things in heaven a Than are dreamt of in your philos

19. "Hamiet. What a piece of noble in reason! how infinite in facul ing how express and admirable! in angel! in apprehension how like a g world! the paragon of animals!"

Compound Questi

Questions beginning with who, wh how, etc., as, "Where are you going doing?" take the falling slide. Beca has one positive idea, which comes last, "You are going somewhere," is pos me where?" "Where" only is inter emphasized when the question is read "Where are you going? Where are generally given as a rule, that, when s are repeated, they take the rising slide fact or principle; for, when such a qu first time, it is repeated in the very positive emphasis, until the person spok it. Then only, if his answer is not dist tion may be given with the rising sli emphasis is taken from the positive, an the interrogative - idea; as, "Wher