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Students who cannot give the downward inflection may, at first, attempt to accent each word necessitating a downward inflection as if the sentence ended on it. After they have acquired facility in doing this they can learn to start the downward inflection, if necessary, on a higher key (§§ 75–77.) Beginners should use only the closing part of the circumflex, which, unless very emphatic, is not well given except when it is slightly given, and usually requires some cultivation of the voice.

VEHEMENT, VIGOROUS AND APPELLATORY

SELECTIONS.

For obvious reasons, the extracts published in this work are none of them of a partisan, sectional or sectarian character; and have all been selected, on the principle of the survival of the fittest, from those that, in the author's own experience, have been found to be best adapted for the purposes for which they are used.

210. In all these the predominating

Time is slower, Pitch slightly higher, and Tone much louder than in ordinary conversation.

Force is natural, tending toward sustained (§§ 113, 114); explosive on very vehement passages, otherwise expulsive; and

Quality, orotund, often made aspirate to express intensity, and guttural to express hostility (§§ 135-137).

211. Assertive, Positive Style; mainly Downward Inflections. Predominating Terminal stress (§ 101); but on vehement passages, Initial (§ 100), and sometimes, on very emphatic syllables, not followed by others in the same word, Compound (see § 45: b, c; § 103: a).

1. REPLY TO MR. FLOOD, 1783.- Henry Grattan.

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It is not the slander of an evil tongue that can defàme me. man, who has not a bad | character, | can ever say that I deceived. No country can call me a cheat. But I will suppòse such a public character. I will suppose such a man to have | existence. I will begin with his character in his political | crádle, and I will follow him to the last stage of political | dissolution. I will suppóse him,

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in the first stage of his life, to have been intemperate; in the second,

to have been corrupt; and in the last, seditious; — that, after an

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víceroys, and after much | declamation against their illegalities and w tr R C to waist and w to 1fRO their profúsion, hè | took office, and became a supporter | of Gov

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their crimes multiplied beyond example.

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and voted, moreover, for an address to send four | thousand | Irish | troops | to cut the throats | of the Americans; that he called these

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móuth and a brìbe in his pócket, a châmpion against the rights of

America,-of Amèrica, the only hope of Ireland, and the only |

refuge of the liberties | of mankind. Thus defective in every | relationship, whether to constitútion, cómmerce, or tolerátion, I will

suppose this man to have added much private | improbity to pub

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lic | crimes; that his probity was like his patriotism, and his honor

on a level with his oath. He loves to deliver panégyrics on himself. I will interrupt him, and sáy:

Sir, you are much mistaken if you think that your talents have been as great as your life has been reprehensible. You began your parliamentary career with an àcrimony and personality which could

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clamorous opposition, you became, on a sudden, | sìlent; you were m SL C silent for seven | years; you were silent on the greatest questions,

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a hymn to the immortal Hampden;-you, sir, approved of the tyranny exercised against Amèrica,—and you, sir, voted four |

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thousand | Irish troops to cut the throats of the Americans fighting

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principle, liberty! But you found, at last, that the Court had

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your Sovereign by betraying the Government, as you had sold the People. Such has been your conduct, and at such conduct every

order of your fellow-subjects have a right to exclaim! The mér

chant may say to you, the constitútionalist may say to you, the

2. REPLY TO THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.- Lord Thurlow.

I am amazed at the attack which the noble Duke has

made on me. Yes, my Lords, I am amazed at his Grace's speech. The noble Duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble Peer who owes his seat in this House to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident? To all these noble Lords the language of the noble Duke is as applicable, and as insulting, as it is to myself. But I do not fear to meet it single and alone.

No one venerates the Peerage more than I do; but, my Lords, I must say that the Peerage solicited me,—not I the Peerage. Nay, more,-I can say, and will say, that, as a Peer of Parliament, as Speaker of this right honorable House, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his Majesty's conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble Duke would think it an affront to be considered, but which character none can deny me, as a MAN,-I am at this moment as respectable, I beg leave to add, I am as much respected, as the proudest Peer I now look down upon!

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3. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, 1831.-Lord Brougham.

My Lords, I do not disguise | the intense | solicitude which I feel for the event of this debate, because I know full well that the peace of the country is involved in the issue. I cannot look without dismay at the rejection of this measure of Parliamentary Refòrm. But, grievous as may be the consequences of a temporary defeat, témpo

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tain. Nothing can now stop it. Do not suffer yourselves to be

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helm, any one could steer you through the troubles which surround

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you, without refòrm. But our successors would take up the task in

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circumstances far less auspicious. Under them, you would be fain to grant a bill, compared with which, the one we now proffer you is

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