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Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, 20 Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise

In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st. Moon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, 25 And ye five other wand'ring Fires, that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. 'Air, and ye 'Elements, the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run

30 Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix,

And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change
Vary to our great Maker still new praise.

His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pìnes,
35 With every plant, in sign of worship, wave.
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Join voices all, ye living Souls; ye Birds,
That singing up to Heav'n gate ascend,

40 Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise.

14.] Page 60. Emphatic succession of particulars requires the falling slide.

Note 3. page 61. should be examined before reading this class of Exercises.

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ;--the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one ;--the enemy

that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

2. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wìsdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit ;-to another, faith, by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit ;-to another, the working of miracles; to another, pròphecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues.

3. Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing :-in every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.-Quench not the Spìrit :--Despise not prophesyings.-Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

4. As virtue is the most reasonable and genuine source of honour, we generally find in titles, an intimation of some particular merit, that should recommend men to the high stations which they possèss. Holiness is ascribed to the Pope; majesty, to kings; serenity, or mildness of temper, to princes; excellence, or perfection, to ambassadors; grace, to archbishops; honour, to pèers; worship, or venerable behaviour, to magistrates; and reverence, which is of the same import as the fórmer, to the inferior clèrgy.

5. It pleases me to think that I, who know so small a portion of the works of the Creator, and with slow and painful steps, creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall, ere long, shoot away with the swiftness of imagination; trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations; be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career; be a spectator of the long

chain of events in the natural and mòral worlds; visit the several apartments of creation; know how they are furnished and how inhabited; comprehend the order and measure, the magnitude and distances of those orbs, which, to us, seem disposed without any regular design, and set all in the same circle; observe the dependence of the parts of each system; and (if our minds are big enough) grasp the theory of the several systems upon one another, from whence results the harmony of the ùniverse.

6. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants; to the loìterer, who makes appointments he never keeps to the consùlter, who asks advice he never takes to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised-to the complainer, who whines only to be pìtied --to the projector, whose happiness is only to entertain his friends with expectations, which all but himself know to be vain to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements--to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances-to the ùsurer, who compares the different fúnds--and to the tálker, who talks only because he loves talking.

7. That a man, to whom he was, in great measure, beholden for his crown, and even for his life; a man to whom, by every honour and favour, he had endeavoured to express his gratitude; whose brother, the earl of Derby, was his own father-in-law; to whom he had even committed the trust of his person, by creating him lord chàmberlain; that a man enjoying his full confidence and affèction; not actuated by any motive of discontent

or apprehension; that this man should engage in a conspiracy against hím, he deemed absolutely false and incrèdible.

8. I would fain ask one of those bigoted infidels, supposing all the great points of atheism, as the casual or eternal formation of the world, the materiality of a thinking substance, the mortality of the sòul, the fortuitous organization of the body, the motion and gravitation of matter, with the like particulars, were laid together, and formed into a kind of creed, according to the opinions of the most celebrated atheists; I say supposing such a creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one people in the world, whether it would not require an infinitely greater measure of faith, than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

9. I conjure you by that which you profess,
(Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me ;
Though you untie the winds, and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yesty waves
Confound and swallow navigation up;

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warder's heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germins tumble altogether,

Ev'n till destruction sícken, answer me

To what I ask you.

This last example is the one which was promised at page 40, of the Analysis, to be inserted in the Exercises, as exhibiting by the notation something of Garrick's manner in pronouncing the passage. To make this more intelligible I add here Walker's remarks accompanying this example, which were alluded to at page 40.

"By placing the falling inflection, without dropping the voice, on each particular, and giving this inflection a degree of emphasis, increasing from the first member to the sixth, we shall find the whole climax wonderfully enforced and diversified: this was the method approved and practised by the inimitable Mr. Garrick; and though it is possible that a very good actor may vary in some particulars from the rule, and yet pronounce the whole agreeably, it may with confidence be asserted that no actor can pronounce this passage to so much advantage as by adopting the inflections laid down in this rule."

15.] Page 62. Emphatic repetition requires the falling inflection; though the principle of the suspending slide, or of the interrogative, may form an exception.

1. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.-And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, 'Abraham, `Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

2. And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wèpt: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalóm, my són, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my sōn, my son !

3. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

4. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian! Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters cast by nature upon our finite conceptions--Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy: not those visionary and arrogant

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