CHAP. I. CHAP. II. RULE I. RULE VI. RULE VII. Of the indirect Question and its Answer.. RULE VIII. The language of Authority. Of surprise, &c.. Causes of defective articulation. Difficulty of many consonant sounds... Description of Inflections.. 29 30 Influence of disjunctive or on Inflection. Of the Direct Question and its Answer. Of Negation opposed to Affirmation... Rising Inflection.-Of the Pause of Suspension... 31 .... ... Strength of voice depends on good organs Faults of Rhetorical Action. Gesture may want appropriateness and discrimi- nation... May be too constant, or violent, or complex, or Mechanical variety. Conjunctive or.. Pause of Suspension... Exercise 26. Judah's Speech to Joseph. 27. Joseph disclosing himself. 29. Burial of Sir John Moore... 30. Eve lamenting the loss of Paradise.. EXERCISES. PART II. 61. Death of Ashmun. 62. Love of Applause.. ...... 52. The Battle of Borodino.... 54. The Bucket-a Cold water Song. 55. Anecdote of Judge Marshal.. 44. Washington.. 45. Miserable case of a Weaver 47. Destruction of the Teinple at Jerusalem by fire.... Millman. 162 Charleston Courier. 165 73. Death of Princess Charlotte..... 74. Remarkable preservation from death at Sea.. Prof. Wilson. 210 111. Providential Distinctions.. 118. Spirit of the American Revolution. THE RHETORICAL READER. CHAPTER I. READING. ITS CONNEXION WITH GOOD EDUCATION. THE art of reading well is indispensable to one who exvects 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 sexcs, must be good readers. Yet the number who can |