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RULES FOR THE INFLECTING OF SENTENCES, OR
PARTS OF SENTENCES.
RULE I.-Complete and Independent Sense
II.-Negative Sentences
III. Introductory Parts of a Sentence
Exception to the First and Third Rule
INTERROGATION.
IV. Questions asked by Pronouns and Adverbs
V.- Questions asked by Verbs.
VI. Questions put disjunctively
Exemplification of the Three preceding Rules
Exceptions
PARENTHESIS.
VII.-How the Parenthesis should be pronounced
Exception
SERIES.
VIII. COMPOUND SERIES-Commencing and Concluding
IX.-SIMPLE SERIES-Commencing and Concluding
Numerical Table of the Simple Series
HARMONIC INFLECTION.
Observations and Examples
EXCLAMATION.
X.-A Word repeated in form of an Exclamation
ACCENT.
XI.-Words the same, in Part of their Formation
RHETORICAL DIVISION OF WORDS.
Of Words-emphatic, accented, and unaccented
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Discontent, the common lot of all mankind
On the Sublime in writing
Reflections in Westminster Abbey
Virtue, man's highest interest
The Monk
On Military Glory
Liberty and Slavery.
Reyno and Alpin .
Story of the Siege of Calais
On Living to one's-self.
Comal and Galvina
On the Psalms
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Ibid.
Johnson,
Blair,
Addison, 11
Harris, 12
Sterne, 14
Marmontel, 16
Sterne, 17
Ossian, 18
Brooke, 20
Hazlitt, 24
Ossian, 25
Horne, 26
Harley's Death
Johnson, 27
Hazlitt, 33
Brooke, 34
Abuse of Genius, with reference to Byron's Works Knowles, 36
Gentleness of manners, with firmness of mind
The Elder's death-bed
On Lord Byron's Lines upon the Field of Waterloo Knowles, 45
Lord Byron considered as a Moralist, and a Poet
Story of Le Fevre
The Distressed Father.
Channing, 72
73
Aikin's Miscellanies,
The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds.
Effects of Sympathy in the distresses of others
An Exhortation to the study of Eloquence
On the Cultivation of the Intellectual Powers
The Fallen Leaf
Happiness
The Idiot
Addison, 75
Burke, 77
Cicero, 78
Taylor, 79
Anonymous, 81
Ibid. 82
Blackwood's Magazine, 83
PULPIT ELOQUENCE.
Departed Spirits see our conduct on earth
Time and Manner of the arrival of death
On the Threatened Invasion in 1803
The Christian Mother.
Christ our Consolation when separated by death
Infatuation of Mankind, with regard to Time .
Danger of Delay, in matters of Religion
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
Sitting in the chair of the scorner
Plurality of Worlds not against Divine Revelation
Christ's Agony
The Deluding Influence of the World
There is no peace to the wicked
Importance of an interest in the Divine favour
The Miseries of War
Religion the distinguishing quality of our nature
On the Internal proofs of the Christian Religion
On Temper
Character of Ruth
Union of Friendship with Religion advised
On the Education of Females
Exhortation to cultivate a Devotional Spirit
Logan, 109
Cappe, 110
Hall, 113
Logan, 114
Channing, 115
Montgomery, 118
ANCIENT AND MODERN ORATORY.
Hannibal to his Soldiers.
Fox, 121
Livy,
133
135
138
Sheridan 141
143
147
Sallust, 149
151
156
158
160
164
Sheridan, 165
Burke, 167
Cicero for Milo
Lord Chatham's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole
Caius Marius to the Romans
Demosthenes exciting the Athenians against Philip
Curran for Hamilton Rowan
Beginning of the First Philippic of Demosthenes.
The first Oration of Cicero against Cataline
Extract from Brougham's Speech on Slavery
Peroration to invective against Warren Hastings
Panegyric on the Eloquence of Sheridan
ADDITIONAL SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE.