Receding now, the dying numbers ring (pp.) Fainter and fainter, down the rugged dell: (=) (f.) (:) Oh, joy to the world! the hour is come, Over the walls of majesty, Upharsin" is writ in words of fire, And the eyes of the bondmen, wherever they be, Soon, soon shall the thrones that blot the world, "ARISE! ARISE! BE FREE!" Tread softly-bow the head, In reverent silence bow, No passing bell doth toll, T. B. READ. () SPEAK OUT, my friends; would you exchange it for the DEMON's DRINK, (f) ALCOHOL? A shout, like the roar of a tempest, answered, ( NO! (sl.) At length, o'er Columbus slow consciousness breaks, (00) "LAND! LAND!" cry the sailors; (f) "LAND! LAND!"-he awakes, (") He runs,-yes! behold it! it blesseth his sight! THE LAND! O, dear spectacle! transport! delight! SECTION V. THE RHETORICAL PAUSE. RHETORICAL PAUSES are those which are frequently required by the voice in reading and speaking, although the construction of the passage admits of no grammatical pause. These pauses are as manifest to the ear, as those which are made by the comma, semicolon, or other grammatical pauses, though not commonly denoted in like manner by any visible sign. In the following examples they are denoted thus, (). 1. 2. EXAMPLES. In slumbers of midnight || the sailor-boy lay, His hammock swung loose || at the sport of the wind; And visions of happiness || danced o'er his mind. There is a land,|| of every land the pride, O, thou shalt find,|| howe'er thy footsteps roam, DIMOND. This pause is generally made before or after the utterance of some important word or clause, on which it is especially desired to fix the attention. In such cases it is usually denoted by the use of the dash (—). EXAMPLES. 1. God said "Let there be light!" 2. All dead and silent was the earth, In deepest night it lay; The Eternal spoke creation's word, And called to being-Day! No definite rule can be given with reference to the length of the rhetorical, or grammatical pause. The correct taste of the reader or speaker must determine it. For the voice should sometimes be suspended much longer at the same pause in one situation than in another; as in the two following EXAMPLES. LONG PAUSE. Pause a moment. I heard a footstep. Listen now. I heard it again; but it is going from us. It sounds fainter,-still fainter. It is gone. SHORT PAUSE. John, be quick. Get some water. Throw the powder overboard. "It can not be reached." There REMARKS TO TEACHERS. It is of the utmost importance, in order to secure an easy and elegant style in reading, to refer the pupil often to the more important principles involved in a just elocution. To this end, it will be found very advantageous, occasionally to review the rules and directions given in the preceding pages, and thus early accustom him to apply them in the subsequent reading lessons. For a wider range of examples and illustrations, it is only necessary to refer to the numerous and various exercises which form the body of this book. They have been selected, in many cases, with a special view to this object. 1 VI' A DUCT, (VIA, a way; DUCT, lead;) a structure, usually of masonry, for carrying a railway across a valley or river; a bridge. ACHIEVEMENTS AND DIGNITY OF LABOR. REV. NEWMAN HALL. HE DIGNITY OF LABOR! Consider its achievements! Dismayed by no difficulty, shrinking from no exertion, exhausted by no struggle, ever eager for renewed efforts in its persevering promotion of human happiness, "clamorous Labor knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning," obtaining each day, through succeeding centuries, fresh benefactions for the world! 2. Labor clears the forest, and drains the morăss, and makes the wilderness rejoice and blossom as the rose. Labor drives the plow, scatters the seed, reaps the harvest, grinds the corn, and converts it into bread, the staff of life. Labor, tending the pastures, as well as cultivating the soil, provides with daily sustenance the one thousand millions of the family of man. 3. Labor gathers the gossamer web of the caterpillar, the cotton from the field, and the fleece from the flock, and weaves them into raiment, soft, and warm, and beautiful, the purple robe of the prince, and the gray gown of the peasant, being alike its handiwork. Labor molds the brick, splits the slate, quarries the stone, shapes the column, and rears, not only the humble cottage, but the gorgeous palace, the tapering spire, and the stately dome. 4. Labor, diving deep into the solid earth, brings up its long-hidden stores of coal, to feed ten thousand furnaces, and, in millions of habitations, to defy the winter's cold. Labor explores the rich veins of deeply-buried rocks, extracting the gold, the silver, the copper, the tin, and the oil. Labor smelts the iron, and molds it into a thousand shapes for use and ornament,- from the massive pillar to the tiniest needle, from the ponderous anchor to the wire-gauze, from the mighty fly-wheel of the steamengine to the polished purse-ring or the glittering bead. 5. Labor hews down the gnarled oak, shapes the timber, builds the ship, and guides it over the deep, plunging through the billows, and wrestling with the tempest, to bear to our shores the produce of every clime. Labor brings us India spices and American cotton; African ivory and Greenland oil; fruits from the sunny South, and furs from the frozen North; tea from the East, and sugar from the West; carrying, in exchange, to every land, the products of industry and skill. Labor, by the universallyspread ramifications of trade, distributes its own treasures from country to country, from city to city, from house to house, conveying to the doors of all, the necessaries and luxuries of life; and, by the pulsations of an untrammeled commerce, maintaining healthy life in the great social system. 6. Labor, fusing opaque particles of rock, produces transparent glass, which it molds, and polishes, and combines so wondrously, that sight is restored to the blind; while worlds, before invisible from distance, are brought so |