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ANSON SMYTH, late Slate Supt. of Public Instruction, OAia n MCGUFFEY'S Old ECLECTIC READERS I esteemed as among the very best works of the kind; but the New are certainly a decided improve- ment upon the Old. I know of no others which I could more earnestly and honestly indorse. I have examined with care the new editions of Ray's Arithmetics, and am greatly pleased with them. The PRIMARY is certainly a very decided improvement: I have seen none so well adapted for a text-book in the elements of Mental Arithmetic. The INTELLECTUAL is an admir- able work. The importance of Mental Arithmetic is ..\ow generally ap- preciated; and I know of no work that embodies so systematic, com- plete, and thorough a course in this useful branch of study. RAT'S PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC needs no praise. It is its own commendation. PINNEO'S SERIES OF GRAMMARS I esteem as among the best text-books extant, for guiding the learner to a knowledge of the correct use of our language. 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No series of books has ever obtained as many voices of approval from teachers as MCGUFFEY'S ECLECTIC READERS. Certainly no other Scries has been so popular throughout the West. We unhesitatingly say that wf know of no better books, and should not take the trouble to look for any. The printing is beautiful, the paper very fine, and tho binding good: and MoGuffey's Readers are proverbially cheap. THE ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. RAT'S ARITHMETICS have deservedly shared in the popularity of the Eclectic Series. The HIGHER ARITHMETIC is better than any other that we know to be used in this country. RAT'S ALGEBRAS are clear, full, and comprehensive. We advise all who wish to arrange a course of studies, including Algebra, to examine these before choosing. MINNESOTA. From HON. B. F. CRARY,/ormer State Supt. of Public Instruction, Minn, I have examined McGuFFET's NEW ECLECTIC READERS, and have no hesitation in saying that they are superior to any similar text-books that have come under my observation. The standard of morals and taste in the Readers is very high, and in their Low PRICE, and beautiful printing and binding, they distance all competition. I rejoice that a Western House has been able to meet the increasing wants of the West in this great field. IOWA. From HON. OBAN FAVILLE, State Supt. of Public Instruction, Iowa. Having recently reexamined the ECLECTIC SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS, I am fully confirmed in the opinion that they are the best Series, on the whole, now in use in the West. Their remarkable popularity, and the continued attachment manifested for them by practical Educators, give evidence both of their intrinsic worth, and of their adaptation to the place designed for them. Without specifying further, I will say that MCGUFFET'S NEW ECLECTIC SERIES OF READERS, SPELLER, and PRIMART SCHOOL CHARTS, PINNEO'S SERIES OF GRAMMARS, and RAT'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS and ALGEBRAS, are unsurpassed by any similar Series with which I am acquainted. I therefore recommend their continued use in our State. MISSOURI. From HON. W. B. STARKE,/ormer State Supt. of Public Instruction, Mo. I have taken much pains to ascertain what are the most approved text-books throughout the country, and after free consultation with lead- ing teachers from different sections of the State, and with their hearty sanction of this course, I recommend the following list of books to be used in the Common Schools of Missouri : MCGUFFET'S NEW SERIES OF READERS, SPEAKERS, and SPELLER, PINNEO'S SERIES OF GRAMMARS, and RAy's SERIES OF ARITHMETICS and ALGEBRAS. THE ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. WISCONSIN. From HON. J. L. PICKARD, State Supt. of Public Instruction, Wis. The books I have recommended below, [McGuFFEY's NEW READERS, RA*'S ARITHMETICS, PINNEO'S GRAMMAR, and WHITE'S CLASS-BOOK o GEOGRAPHY,] are such as commend themselves to my judgment. I wpuld advise their adoption in all schools where no uniformity at present exists. KANSAS. From HON. WM. R. GRIFFITH, State Supt. of Public Instruction, Kan. I recommend McGuFFEY's NEW EC* ECTIC SERIES OF READERS, SPEAKERS, and SPELLER, and RAY'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS and ALGEBRAS to the favorable consideration of the Teachers of our Public Schools. These works possess real merit, and I trust they will be approved by the citi- zens of the State generally. I have spent a week in examining McGuf- fey's Series, and I most heartily commend them. I have also, after careful examination, concluded to recommend PIN- NEO'S SERIES OF GRAMMARS. I have endeavored to examine the most popular works on the subject of Grammar, as a teacher rather than as a critic, and, in so doing, have been compelled to give my preference to Pinneo's. The early introduction of analysis, and the abundant black- board exercises provided, make Pinneo's Grammars very practical ivorks. VALUABLE TESTIMONY. From Rev. BISHOP CLARE, D. D,, formerly Editor of the Ladies' Repository. I have had frequent occasion, during the past few years, to examine and reexamine the ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. Taken a a whole, they are unquestionably the best issued by any house in America. The popularity enjoyed by the ECLECTIC SERIES rests upon the substantial basis of merit. From I. W. ANDREWS, D. D., President of Marietta College. I have examined carefully McGuFFEY's ECLECTIC READERS, and am prepared to speak of them in terms of unqualified commendation. They appear to me to combine more excellences than any other readers with which I am acquainted. The favorable opinion I had formed of them from examination has been confirmed by the use of them in my own family. I was really charmed with them, and so were my children. I do not believe better books for this purpose were ever prepared : / have, never seen any as good. ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. M C GUFFEY'S NEW ECLECTIC SPEAKEE, CONTAINING ABOUT THREE HUNDRED EXERCISES FOR READING AND DECLAMATION. ELECTROTYPE EDITION. CINCINNATI: WILSON, HINKLE & CO PHIL'A: CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER. NEW YORK: CLARK & MAYNARD. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hun- dred and Fifty-Eight, by WINTHROP B. SMITH, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. lessons in this volume are copyright property, and their use by others not permitted. See paragraph 7 of preface. Electrotyped at the Franklin Type Foundry. Cincinnati, Ohio. PREFACE. THE EXERCISES in this volume are from a great variety of the very best sources of American and English literature. They have be.en se- lected with reference to purity of sentiment, beauty of style, real elo- quence, interest and instructiveness of matter, and, especially, their adaptation to instruction in declamation and reading. The peculiarities of this work are the following. 1. Every exercise may be appropriately used both for reading and speaking. 2. The exercises are very short. A great fault of most books of this kind is, that the extracts are too long for declamation, and the judg- ment and patience of the teacher much taxed in modifying them. 3. Many of the speeches and dialogues are so prepared, and arranged in a connected series, that either one of them may' be spoken alone, or any number of them in connection, thus leaving it at the option of the teacher to make the exercise long or short. 4. Prefixed to all the exercises which need it, is such explanation of the matter, or of the circumstances connected with the subject, or such information with regard to the author, as will render the extract intelligible and interesting. Learners are too often required to de- claim what they do not understand. 5. The Elementary Principles of reading and speaking are very fully explained and illustrated. The directions and exercises, espe- cially on the management and culture of the voice, and the remarks on gesture, all of which are particularly important to the speaker, have been prepared with great care, and are in accordance with the best American and English authors. 6. A highly elevated tone of religious and moral sentiment has been carefully secured throughout. This is esteemed especially important, 7 8 PREFACE. although many popular school books contain matter very objection- able in this respect. 7. Great liberty has been taken with the exercises introduced into , this book. This was found necessary, in order to adapt them to the purpose for which they are here designed. Many articles have been entirely remodeled, and, to a considerable extent, rewritten. This has required much labor and thought, and renders them properly copy right property. For this reason, the credits are expressed as "from" the author named. CONTENT The Exercises in Poetry are marked thus. (*) EXERCISE. PAGE. Elementary Principles 15 1. Advance * 45 2. Eloquence, Nos. I, II ' 46 4. Denunciation of Catiline From Cicero. . 48 5. Catiline's Defiance* From Oroly. . 50 6. Expulsion of Catiline From Cicero. . 51 7. Power of a Free People From Everett. . 52 8. True Honor of a Nation 53 9. Vision of Liberty * 54 10. The Greek Warrior * From Bryant. . 56 11. Music of Industry * 57 12. Aaron Burr 59 13. Death of Hamilton, Nos. I, II From Mason. . 60 15. The Gambler's Wife* From Coates. . 63 16. Look. Aloft * 64 17. The Duel, (Dialogue,) Scenes I, II, III . . From Sheridan. . 64 20. Hayne on Webster . . 72 21. Webster's Reply to Hayne, Nos. I to V 73 26. New England's Dead * 79 27. New England From Prentiss. . 80 28. The Homes of England * From ffemans. . 81 29. The Hermit Hunter * From Tuppcr. . 82 30. The Doctor, (Dialogue,) Scenes I to IV . . From Fielding. . 83 34. Removal of Troops from Boston .... From Chatham. . 96 35. The Stamp Act From Chatham. . 98 36. Reconciliation with America From Chatham. . 99 37. On an Address to the King, Nos. I, II . . From Chatham. . 101 39. Apostrophe to Liberty * From Knowles. . 104 40. Gertrude * From Hemans. . 105 41. Description of a Fop* From Shakspeare. 107 42. Hotspur and King Henry, * (Dialogue,} . . From Shakspeare. 108 43. Hotspur's Soliloquy From Shakspeare. Ill 44. Partition of Poland From Fox. . . 112 45. Legislature of Ireland, Nos. I, II . . . . From Plunket. . 113 47. America From Phillips. . 116 48. Famine in Ireland -From Prentiss. . 117 49. Abou Ben Adhem * From Hunt. . . 119 9 10 CONTENTS. EXERCISE. PAGE. 50. Resignation * From Longfellow. 120 61. The Beleaguered City* From Longfellow. 120 52. Breach of Promise, Nos. I, II . . . . . From Dickens. . 122 54. The Tender Husband* 125 55. The Sentimental Husband * From Hood. . . 126 56. The Influence of Woman From Webster. . 128 57. Marie Antoinette From Burke. . 129 58. Eienzi,* (Dialogue,} Scenes I, II . . . . From Mitford. . 130 60. True Eloquence ......... From Webster. . 136 61. Hamlet to the Players From Shakspeare. 137 62. Affectation in the Pulpit* From Cowper . 138 63. Evils of Intemperance From Sprague. . 139 64. Danger of Intemperance From Beecher. . 141 65. Water for Me * 142 66. Remorse of De Moor From Schiller. . 143 67. The Guilty Conscience* From Shakspeare. 144 68. Soliloquy of Hamlet's Uncle * .... From Shakspeare. 145 69. National Morality From Beecher. . 146 70. Arrangements of Providence* .... From Pope. . . 147 71. Skepticism* From Campbell. 148 72. The Inquiry 149 73. The Cross 150 74. Justice From Carlyle. . 152 75. Maeduff and Rosse,* (Dialogue.} .... From Shakspeare. 153 76. Secession, Nos. I, II, III From Webster. . 155 79. The American Republic * From Byron. . 159 80. The Union, Nos. I, II, III From H. Clay. . 160 83. Scene after a Battle * From Byron. . 164 84. Not on the Battlefield * From Pierpont. 166 85. Napoleon Bonaparte, Nos. I, II . . . . From Lamartine. 167 87. Lafayette in America ....... From Prentiss. . 170 88. Lafayette and Napoleon From Prentiss. . 172 89. Winter and Death * From Thomson. . 172 90. Rudiger's Last Banquet * 175 91. John Day * From Hood. . . 1 76 92. The Watchman, (Dialogue,} Scenes I, II . From Shakspeare. 178 94. Liberty of the Press From Curran. . 182 95. Clear the Way * 183 96. Press On * 184 97. Where Should the Scholar Live ? . . . From Longfellow. 185 98. The Beautiful * . . 186 99. Invective against Mr. Flood From Grattan. . 187 100. Invective against Mr. Corry From Grattan. . 189 101. Denunciation of Verres From Cicero. . 190 10J2. Spartacus From Kellogg. . 192 CONTENTS. 11 EXEBCISE. PAGE. 103. The Gladiator * 194 104. Death of Marmion * From Scott. . . 196 105. Othello and lago,* (Dialogue,) . . . . From Shakspeare. 198 106. Matrimony From Fanny Fern. 201 107. The Disappointed Husband * 202 108. America Ascendant From Phillips. . 203 109. Washington From Phillips. . 204 HO. Wisdom of Washington From Fox. . . 205 111. Washington's Birth-day From Webster. . 207 112. What Constitutes a State * * 'V^'* 1 '-"- . 208 113. Marathon* From Byron. . 209 114. Athens From Macaulay. 210 115. Greece * From Byron. . 212 116. The Flight of Xerxes * 213 117. The Peruvian Prisoner, (Dialogue,) . . . From Sheridan. . 214 118. Rolla and Alonzo, (Dialogue,} From Sheridan. . 216 119. The Indians From Story. . 220 120. The Indian's Burial Place * From Bryant. . 222 121. The Defiance 224 122. The Seminole * 225 123. Gertrude of Wyoming* From Campbell. 226 124. Outalissi * From Campbell. 227 125. Paul Pry, (Dialogue,) . . . .... -. From Poole. . 229 126. Taxes From Sydney Smith.234; 127. A Political Conversion . .H .*-*. . . . From Webster. . 235 128. The Coalition From Webster. . 237 129. Mr. Dane . - . . From Webster. . 238 130. Nature's Gentleman* 239 131. Bernadine Du Born * From Sigourney . 240 132. Richard I* . / v From Ilemans. . 241 133. Prevalence of War '. . From Grimke. . 243 134. War Falsely Colored . . ... :' V . From Chalmers.. 244 135. The Dying Soldier V r: M'y-; . 245 136. War Unchristian . 246 137. Peace * From Shelley. . 248 138. War * From Shelley. . 248 139. Teachings of Nature* From Pollok. . 249 140. The Hurricane * From Bryant. . 251 141. Summer Heat * From Thomson. . 252 142. No ! * From Hood. . . 253 143. The Sheep Stealer, (Dialogue,) Scenes I, II .254 145. What has America Done ? 259 146. True Ambition From H. Clay. . 260 147. Henry Clay From Seward. . 261 148. Remembrance of Good 263 12 CONTENTS. EXEBCISE. PAGE. 149. Triumph of Hope * From Campbell. 264 150. The Three Homes * 265 151. J. Q. Adams, Nos. I, II . . . . 266 -^ 153. Men who Never Die From Everett. . 268^*" 154. I Gather them In * 269 155. Bernardo Del Carpio * From Ifemans. . 270 156. Responsibility of Americans From Webster. . 272 157. Public Faith From Ames. . . 273 158. Public Virtue From If. Clay. . 275 159. Duty of Chief Magistrate From Webster. . 276 160. Two Hundred Years Ago* From Mellen. . 278 161. Rich and Poor From Webster. . 279 162. Nature and Art * From Goldsmith. 281 163. Cruelty* From Cowper. . 282 164. Robin Roughhead, (/%%<>,) Scenes I, II, III 283 167. The Poor House * From Crabbe. . 289 168. Nobility of Labor From Deivey. . 290 169. Religion the Basis of Independence . . . From Quincy. . 291 170. Reform From Chopin. . 293 171. Never Despair * 294 172. Mothers of the West * From Gallagher. 295 173. Value of Reputation **T From Phillips. . 296 174. The Informer From Curran. . 297 175. Philosophy of Virtue From Canning. . 298 176. The Editor *. 299 177. The Quiz, (Dialogue,} 301 178. Greek Revolution From Webster. . 306 179. Liberty to Greece* From Percival. . 308 180. Greek War Song* From Campbell. 309 181. The Pilgrims, Nos. I, II From Everett. . 310 183. Arrival of the Mayflower From Everett. . 314 184. Fruits of Pilgrim Enterprise 316 185. The Pilgrim Fathers * From Pierpont. . 317 186. The Martyrs * From Hcmans. . 318 187. The Guebers* . From Moore. . 319 188. The Peasant Boy, (Dialogue,} 321 189. Orator Climax 325 190. Art of Puffing, (Dialogue,} From Sheridan. . 326 191. Defense of Socrates, Nos. I, II, III 331 194. Emmett's Defense, Nos. I, II, III, IV 335 198. Ireland From a Cornell. 342 199. Bertram * From Scott. . . 343 200. Mazeppa * From Byron. . 345 201. The Hunter's Song* From Proctor. . 347 202. Call on Hungary From Kossuth. . 348 CONTENTS. 13 EXERCISE. PAGE _ 203. Hungary Prom Webster. . 350 204. Fate of Goldau* . . From NeaL . . 352 205. The Vulture * . . 353 206. A kide from Ghent to Aix * . . 355 207. The Wife, (Dialogue,) Nos. I, II, III . , . From Sheridan. . 357 210. Beauties of Sacred Literature .... From Grimke. . 366 211. Bless the Lord From the Bible. 367 212. Condition of the Wicked From the Bible. 368 213. Adam* . ;'' I ... 369 214. Mont Blanc * From Coleridge. 370 215. Progress of Science From Webster. . 372 216. The Present Age . From Charming. 373 217. American Liberty From Story. . .375 218. American Literature From Grimke. . 376 219. The River,* Nos. I, II, III From Bryant . 377 222. True Popularity From Mansfield. 381 223. National Glory From II. Clay. . 382 224. Duty to Our Country From Story. . 384 225. Our Liberty in Our Own Keeping 386 226. The Torch of Liberty * From Moore. . 387 227. King Lear,* (Dialogue,} Scenes I to V . . From Shakspeare. 389 232. The Quack 403 233. The Learner * . 404 234. Plea for Ireland . From Grattan. . 406 235. Wrongs of Ireland From Phillips. . 407 236. Defense of Irish Character From Phillips. . 409 237. Irish Courtesy, (Dialogue,} 410 238. Redmond O'Neal * From Scott. . . 412 239. Scotland 414 240. The Last Minstrel,* Nos. I, II .... From Scott. . . 416 242. The War Gathering* . . . . t J. '. _ ;. From Scott. . . 420 243. The Bow* *. ' From Hemans. . 422 244. Speech on America . . From Barre. . . 423 245. American Taxation From Burke. . 425 246. England's Right to Tax America . . . From Burke. . 426 247. Otis on Taxation . f . '_. ';. . . . 427 248. The Pioneer* . . . ." . . . . . . From Brainard. 429 249. Roderic. Dhu,* (Dialogue,} ...... From Scott. . . 430 250. Bunker Hill Monument, Nos. I, II . . . From Webster. . 434 flofl. Monument to Washington From Everett. . 436 253. Soldiers of the Revolution From Sprague. . 438 254. Hector * From Homer. . 439 255. England's Dead * . From Hemans. . 441 256. Charge of Light Brigade * From Tennyson. 442 257. The Onset * . From Proctor. . 443 14 CONTENTS. EXERCISE. PAGE. 258. Lament for Carthon . . . . ... . From Ossian. . 444 259. Burial of Ophelia, (Dialogue,) . . . . From Shakspeare. 445 260. Doctor Slop From Sterne. . 447 261. The Supper * 448 262. Caius Marius, Nos. I, II ". '% '.^ ..' ,", / . 450 264. American Navy From Cobden. . 452 265. The Sailor From Stockton. . 454 266. The Wreck * From Hemans. . 455 267. Only One Night at Sea * .>.... . 456 268. Ennui, (Dialogue,} From Mathews. . 457 269. The Modern Belle* 460 270. The Embargo From Quincy. . 461 271. Political Corruption From M* Dvffie. . 462 272. Party Spirit From H. Clay. . 464 273. National Antipathies From Choate. . 465 274. Suppression of a Mob From Byron. . 466 275. The Murdered Traveler * From Bryant. . 468 276. The Death-Fire * From Stephens. . 469 277. The Miser* 470 278. Love of the World * From Cowper. . 472 279. Self-interest, (Dialogue,} 473 280. System of Finance From Mirabeau. 477 281. Hyder AH From Burke. . 478 282. Standing Armies From Pultney. . 480 283. Spirit of Peace 482 284. Our Republic an Experiment From Everett. . 483 285. L' Allegro* From Milton. . 484 286. II Penseroso * From Milton. . 486 287. Address to the Sun From Ossian. . 488 288. The Night* From Proctor. . 489 289. Night * rrom Montgomery. 490 290. Apostrophe to the Ocean * From Proctor. . 491 291. The Coral Grove* . From Per cival. . 492 292. The Miller, (Dialogue,} 493 293. Ode on Cecilia's Day * From Dryden. . 496 294. Drunkenness From Taylor. . 497 295. The Bowl * "... 498 296. There is a God ! 500 297. My Mother's Bible* .'!.'. 501 298. Survivors of Bunker Hill, Nos. I, II . . From Webster. . 602 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. THE art of speaking well, requires attention to the following subjects : ARTICULATION, THE VOICE, its management, INFLECTION, THE VOICE, its culture, EMPHASIS, GESTURE. I. ARTICULATION. ARTICULATION is the formation of sounds by the organs of speech. To secure a correct and distinct articulation of words, the following faults must be carefully avoided : Incorrect. Correct. dcs-t'ny col'ny eb'ny crit'cism des-tz-ny. col-o-ny. eb-o-ny. crit-t-cism. I. DROPPING A VOWEL. Incorrect. Correct. reg'lar reg-n-lar. fcm'ral fem-o-ral. man 'fold man-i-fold. prob'ble prob-a-ble. II. SOUNDING A VOWEL INCORRECTLY. Incorrect. Correct. Incorrect. Correct. ob-stun-it ob-sti-nate. fel-er-ny fel-o-ny. wv-ent e-vent. cir-ki-late cir-c?Mate. ter-rib-ble ter-rz-ble. reg-/-late reg-M-late. judg-mwnt jurlg-ment. treat- nmnt treat-ment. pil-ler pil-low. tem-per-wnce tem-per-ance. 15 16 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. III. OMITTING A CONSONANT. Incorrect He an* his brother. The severes' storm. Singin', talkin', shoutin'. They cas' the mas' down. Correct. He and his brother. The severest storm. Singing, talking, shouting. They casrf the maste down. IV. MISPRONOUNCING SYLLABLES. Incorrect. Correct. mis'-rwr-ble mis'-er-a-ble. nes x -sa-ry ne x -ces-sa-ry . tol'-rer-ble tol x -er-a-ble. co-tern '-p'r'y co-tern '-po-ra-ry. V. BLENDING WORDS TOGETHER. Incorrect, Correct. He wen ton. He wentf on. For man ^illusion given. For man's illusion given. With fortitu ^resigned. With fortitude resigned. Bri fas the summer. Bright as the summer. PRACTICE is the only thing necessary to insure a correct and distinct articulation, except in those very few cases in which there is a defect in the organs of speech. But this practice must be judicious, faithful, and perseveringly con- tinued. DIRECTIONS FOR PRACTICE. I. Let the learner practice upon the vowels by pro- nouncing the word, and then the vowel sound. U 3 u 4 u boy now For very extensive exercises on these sounds, see McGuffey's New Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Eclectic Readers. 1 i 2 2 2 2 2 mate a met e not rub 2 2 3 3 3 3 mat a her e nor fur 4 3 a fine i i wolf 4 pull fall 4 a 4 ? 5 move 5 oi 5 5 3 3 6 6 was a sir 1 dove ou i i i 1 i 1 me e note rude U Y sa ARTICULATION. 17 II. Let the learner practice upon the consonant sounds, single and combined, pronouncing first the word, and then the consonant element. WORD. ELEMENTS. WORD. ELEMENTS. WORD. ELEMENTS. bib b. paddle dl. mix ks. did d. paddles dlz. mixt kst. fife f. paddlest dlst. sect kt. gig g- paddled did. sects kts. he h. drop dr. queen kw. jo j. bids dz. fold Id. kick k. bidst dst. folds Idz. lull 1. muffle fl. fold'st Idst. mum m. muffles flz. gulf If. nun n. muffled fid. gulfs Ifs. pop p. muffledst fldst. tills Iz. row r. from fr. tillst 1st, sit s. pufs fs. hilt It. tat t. pufst fst. hilts Its. van v. sift ft. hem'd md. web w. sifts fts. hem'dst mdst. yet y. siftst ftst. nymph mf. zag z. joggle gl. nymphs mfs. zha zh. joggles glz. hems mz. sha sh. jogglest gist. hemst mst. chin ch. joggled gld. send nd. the th. joggledst gldst. sends ndz. thin th. digs gz. sendst ndst. hang ng. digst gst. kindl' ndl. brim br. digg'd gd. kindl's ndlz. blab bl. digg'dst gdst. kindl'st ndlst. babbles biz. grim gr. kindl'd ndld. babblest blst. wedg'd ~ jd. kind'ldst ndldst. babbled bid. clip kl. ranks nks. babbledst bldst. tackl's klz. rankst nkst. dubs bz. tackl'st klst. rank'd nkd. dubst bst. tackl'd kid. rank'dst nkdst. robd bd. tackl'd'st kldst. flinch nch. robdst bdst. crop kr. flinch'd nchd. NEW EC. S. 2 18 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. WORD. ELEMENTS. WORD. ELEMENTS. WORD. ELEMENTS. change nj. chang'd njd. rings ngz. ring'd ngd. runs nz. darts rts. dartst rtst. parch rch. parch'd rchd. scan sk. bang'd ngd. bangdst ngdst. thinks nks. thinkst nkst. rank'd nkd. runst nst. asks sks. rankdst nkdst. rent nt. ask'd skd. width dth. rents ntz. askst skst. widths dths. plan pi. print pr. sept pt. septs pts. cord rd. ask'dst skdst. lisp sp. lisps sps. lisp'd spd. fist st. bulge Ij. bulg'd Ijd. bulb Ib. bulbs Ibz. milk Ik. cords rdz. fists sts. milks Iks. cordst rdst. sweet sw. milkst Ikst. hark rk. strut str. milk'd Ikd. harks rks. bottl' tl. milk'dst Ikdst. harkst rkst. bottles tlz. helm 1m. hark'd rkd. bottlest tlst. helms Imz. hark'dst rkdst. hurl rl. hurls rlz. hurlst rlst. hurl'd rid. hurl'dst rldst. bottl'd tld. bottl'dst tldst. hits ts. hitst tst. try tr. twelve tw. help Ip. helps Ips. helpst Ipst. help'd Ipd. help'dst Ipdst. valve Iv. urge rj. urg'd rjd. harm rm. harms rmz. harmst rmst. harm'd rmd. harm'dst rmdst. prism zm. puzzl' zl. puzzles zlz. puzzlest zlzst. puzzl'd zld. pwzzl'dst zldst. shrink shr. valves Ivz. health 1th. healths Iths. filch Ich. filch'd Ichd. turf rf. turfs rfs. burn . rn. sooth'd thd. turfst rfst. burns rnz. soothes thz. turf'd rfd. burnst rnst. sooth'st thzt. turf'dst rfdst. burn'd rnd. burn'dst rndst. sings ngz. singst ngst. throb thr. thwack thw. ARTICULATION. 19 III. Let the learner practice upon words and sentences containing difficult sounds or combinations. EXAMPLES. Thrifty, hlotck'd, milk'd, prob'dst, begg'dst. PlucA,-' dst, hoast'st, vfrong'dst, prostrate, hush'dst. Thou spli^'s^ the umvedgeable and gnarled oak. When Ajax strives some rocks \ast weight to throw. Up the 7tigh 7iill he heaves a 7*uge round stone. The battle lusts still. The hosts still stood. He could pay no one. He could pain no one. His cry moved me. His crime moved me. Wastes and deserts. Waste sand deserts. And gleaming, and streaming, and steaming, and beaming. And curling, and whirling, and purling, and twirling. Advanc- ing, and dancing, and prancing, and glancing. Delaying, and straying, and playing, and spraying. Lucu- bration, lugubrious, incalculably, disinterestedly. Apocrypha, agricultural, astrological, chronological. He gave him. good advice which he did not 7*eed. He came at last too late to be .of any service. The magistrates stood on an elevated platform. A good deal of disturbance seemd aboutf to follow. No one dared do what ougM to have been done. Co-extensively, neces- sarily, ordinarily, apologetic. Apocalyptic, congratulatory, expostulatory, ecclesiastical. Spirituality, compatibility, dietetically, authoritatively. Anni- hilation, colloquially, collaterally, appropriate. A thousand shrieks for hopeless inercy call. The act more than all other acts laid the ax at the root. Then crac&Zing, crashing thunder down. Thou hast not as7ced riches, or wea?/7i, or honor. Thou hast not as&ed long life, but hast asked wisdom. The magistrates ought to prove the charge. The magistrates sought to prove the charge. On both sides an ocean exists. On both sides a ?iotion exists. He proposed an amicable adjustment. The ceremoniousness of his incommunicability is inexplicable. Most hypocritical was the counter-revolutionary movement. 20 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. His extraordinary untractableness shows no disinterestedness. I never saw such a saw as this saw to saw with. I say that, that that that man said is not that that I said. When a twister atwisting would twist him a twist. For twisting a twist three twists he entwists. If one of the twists untwists from the twist The twist untwisting untwists the twist. Robert Roily rolled a round roll round. A round roll Robert Roily rolled round, round. Where rolled the round roll Roily rolled round ? QUESTIONS. To -what subjects does the art of speaking well require attention? What is articulation? What fault must be avoided 1st? 2d? 3d? 4th? 5th? (Give examples under each.) What is ne- cessary to insure a good articulation ? What method of practice is recommended 1st? 2d? 3d? (Give examples under each.) II. INFLECTION. INFLECTION is an upward or downward slide of the voice. The rising inflection is an upward slide, and is denoted by the acute accent, thus, (") : as, Has he gone"? Will you come"? The falling inflection is a downward slide, and is de- noted by the grave accent, thus. (^); as, Where will you go v ? What has happened^ ? The circumflex is the union of the two slides on the same syllable, and is marked thus, ("-), where the voice commences with the falling and ends with the rising in- flection ; or thus, ( ), where the order is reversed; as, They require us to be frugal, While they revel in luxury. A MONOTONE is the utterance of successive syllables in one unvaried key, and is denoted thus, (-); as, Be ready, Gods, with all your thunder-bolts. INFLECTION. 21 MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES. Shall we stay', or go v ? * Do you say yes', or no v ? Is he an enemy ', or a friend v ? lie is a friend^, not an enemy '. Will you go to-day', or to-morrow v ? I will go to-day v , not to-morrow '. I am no orator, as Brutus is. He must be a fool to do that. the grave ! the grave ! it buries every error ! It covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. True case in writing, comes from art v , not chance', As those move easiest ', who have learned to dance v . Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust'? Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death'? Is the king dead'? the empire unpossessed'? Who can hold fire in his hand, By thinking on the lofty Caueasus v ? What must we do now v ? Must we submit'? Did you say at', or hat v ? I said at v , not hat'. Does Caesar most deserve fame', or blame v ? RULES FOR INFLECTION. RULE I. Sentences and clauses which make com- plete sense, require the falling inflection. EXAMPLES. It is true v , my liege: you are the most powerful of kings v . We are all your slaves v : we kiss the dust of your feet v . He that receiveth you, receiveth me v : and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent v me. Exceptions. Emphasis, See Eule III. Negation, . .J'i.- >: -. " : i* . See Rule V. Antithesis, See Rule IX. Harmony, See Rule VI. 22 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. ItuLE II. Emphasis generally requires the falling inflection. EXAMPLES. Awake v , ye sons of Spain: a\vake v , advanced Charge v , Chester, charge v ! On v , Stanley, on v . I insist v upon this point: I urge v it: I press v it. All that I have v , all that I hope v , I stake upon it Exception. See Emphasis, page 27. RULE III. Interrogative sentences and clauses, which can not be answered by yes or no, generally require the falling inflection. EXAMPLES. Who discovered America v ? Who are these v ? What must I do v ? Where are the wise v ? Exception. When questions like the preceding are re- peated, they take the rising inflection ; as, Who" discovered America? Who" are these? REMARK. Although emphasis generally requires the falling inflection, it is sometimes denoted or aided by a change of the natural inflection, in which case the rising is used for the falling, as in the preceding example. RULE IV. Where the sense is suspended or incom- plete, the rising inflection is generally used. EXAMPLES. The sunset hues', so bright ', so beautiful', have vanished. Friends', Romans', countrymen', lend me your ears. As the morning dew vanishes', so life passes away. The wind having lulled', they made sail for the shore. Exceptions. 1. Relative emphasis; see page 27. 2. Intense emphasis ; as, Hubert v , Hubert v , save me. 3. Formal terms of address ; as, My lords and gentlemen v , I ask yonr attention. INFLECTIONS. 23 RULE V. Negative sentences and clauses usually require the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. This is not an isolated case". We are not left alone to meet temptation". They are not fighting ": do not disturb " them. Exceptions. 1. Emphasis; as, Do you say they are fighting? They are not^ fighting. 2. General propositions ; as, Thou shalt not kill v . RULE VI. When a sentence closes with the falling inflection, the rising often precedes it, for the sake of harmony. EXAMPLES. Death comes to the king', and to the beggar v . Every sorrow is hushed", every pang is extinguished v . Exception. Emphasis ; as, Every man v , every woman v , every child v was slain. RULE VII. Interrogative sentences and clauses which can be answered by yes or no, generally require the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. Will you deny" it? Can you resist such" motives? Exception. Emphasis ; as, Will^ you deny it? Can> you resist such motives? RULE VIII. Interrogative exclamations, and words repeated as a kind of echo to the thought, require the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. Who believes" it? Who does not v believe it? And this man is called a poet v . A poet"! Why, he is a mere writer of doggerel. Ha"! laugh'st thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn? 24 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. RULE IX. Words and clauses used antithetically, or in contrast, require opposite inflections. EXAMPLES. The young' and the old v , the rich' and the poor v , alike go the way of all the earth. Are animals governed by instinct', or by reason v ? Homer was the greater genius', Virgil the better artist v . A soldier should obey v , not direct' his general. It is virtue v , not wealth' that is respected. SERIES. A SERIES is a number of words or clauses, following one another in the same construction. A Simple series consists of words ; as, Beauty, wealth, honor, power, are ephemeral. A Compound series consists of claiises ; as, The sky was cloudless ; the breeze moved lightly ; the grass looked fresh; and the merry crickets chirped in all directions. A Commencing series commences a sentence or clause; as, Beauty, wealth, honor, and power, are ephemeral. A Concluding series concludes a sentence or clause; as, Nothing is more ephemeral, than beauty, wealth, honor, or power. RULE X. The members of a commencing series re- quire the falling inflection, except the last, which receives the rising inflection. The members of a concluding series require the fall- ing inflection, except the last but one, which has the rising inflection. COMMENCING SERIES. Beauty^, wealth v , honor v , power', are ephemeral. To succor the oppressed v , to relieve the needy v , to advise the ignorant v , to comfort the afflicted', is the duty of all. INFLECTION. 25 CONCLUDING SERIES. Nothing can be more ephemeral than beauty^, wealth v , honor', or power's It is the duty of all, to succor the oppressed^, to relieve the needy v , to advise the ignorant', and to comfort the afflicted v . Exception 1. When the members of a series are not at all emphatic, they receive inflection according to previous rules ; as, James', William', and Henry', are at school. He is a man of principle', intelligence', and influenced Exception 2. When the members of a series are strongly emphatic, they may all receive the falling inflection ; as, Not one man v , not one woman v , not one child v was saved. Exception 3. When a series forms a climax, the last member may receive the falling inflection ; as, Days', months', years,' and ages v , shall circle away. REMARK. It is becoming very common with good speakers, to give the rising inflection to all the members of a commencing series, and to all the members of a con- cluding series, except the last. Others use the rising inflection in a commencing series, and the falling inflection in a concluding series. PARENTHESIS. A CLAUSE in a parenthesis, should close with the same inflection that next precedes it, unless it is complicated or emphatic, when it must be governed by general rules. A slight pause should be made before and after it, and it should be read in a monotone or in a low voice. RULE XI. The circumflex is used in ironical, con- ditional, and sometimes in contrasted language. EXAMPLES. A little thing! a very little thing! I only shoot at my child. What have I done of which you can complain? If you say yes, then I say no. *' NEW EC. S. 3 26 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. RULE XII. The monotone is used in grave and solemn subjects. EXAMPLES. Thus saith the High and Lofty One That inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place. Yet a few days, and thee the all-beholding sun Shall see no more, in all his course. POETIC INFLECTIONS. In Poetry the inflections are determined by the same rules as those in prose, with this exception, that there is a greater tendency to the use of the rising inflection in the former, than in the latter. QUESTIONS. What is inflection? What is the rising inflection? The falling? The circumflex? The monotone? (Give examples under each.) Repeat Rule 1, with example. Rule 2. Rule 3. What exception? Rule 4. Exceptions? Rule 5. What exceptions? Rule 6. What exception? Rule 7. What exception? Rule 8. Rule 9. What is a series? A simple series? A compound series? A commencing series ? A concluding series ? Repeat Rule 10. Ex- ception 1. 2. 3. What is the remark? What is said of parenthe- sis? Repeat Rule 11. Rule 12. What of poetic inflections? III. EMPHASIS. EMPHASIS consists in a certain manner of uttering a word or phrase, designed to impress the idea forcibly upon the hearer. Emphasis may be denoted by italics, or by small, or large capitals. The object of emphasis may be accomplished, 1. By increased stress; as, Strike, till the last armed foe expires, t STRIKE, for your altars and your fires. 2. By low tones; as, While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips; the/oe/ they come! they come! EMPHASIS. 27 3. By change of inflection ; as, If we regard not youth v , we should respect age'. The sweetest melody falls powerless upon the deaf' ear. See Remark, page 22. 4. By a pause; as, Strike for the green graves of your sires, GOD and your native land. Banished from Rome ? tried and convicted TRAITOR ? If ROME MUST PALL WE are innocent. REMARK. This, ( ) is called the Rhetorical Pause, and,' when used with judgment, gives great force and beauty to emphasis. 5. By change of accent; as, G^'-ing and /br'-giving are different things. I said per '-verted, not cow '-verted. ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS. ABSOLUTE emphasis is that which is independent of any comparison with other words or ideas. EXAMPLES. Temperance promotes health. The power of faith was the preacher 'B subject. We have petitioned ; we have REMONSTRATED ; we have SUPPLI- CATED; we have PROSTRATED ourselves at the foot of the throne. AWAKE ! ARISE ! or be forever fallen. 'T is horrible! 't is hideous! 't is hateful! Hubert ! save me ! SAVE me ! from these bloody men. Charge, Chester, charge; on, Stanley, on. RELATIVE EMPHASIS. Relative emphasis is that which denotes or implies antithesis, or comparison with some thing else. ONE SET OP ANTITHETIC WORDS. It is more blessed to give, than to receive. 28 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. They only i///ir injuries meekly, \\h never inflict thorn. He that knows himself, knows oMer. Study not to shmr kiiowli-d.uy. lut to acquire it. ', It is easier to nen< our faults, than to A We thorn. Those who can not bear a jost, should never make ono. TWO SETS OP ANTITHETIC WORDS. The one was distinguished for his goodness; the other, for hia vileness, The 0mpfc inherit folly ; the prudent are crowned with To err is human; in forgive, divine. Fame's flight is glory's fall. Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye, and con- siderest not the beam in thine otr eye. THREE SETS OP ANTITHETIC WORDS. The former reasons justly from false data ; the latter, falsely from just data. Pedantry is wrong by nites; common sense is rt<7/^ without them. ANTITHESIS IMPLIED. death! the #oo Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free, fair Homes of England! Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed Avail! And green forever be the groves, And bright the fairy sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God! FROM MRS. HEMANS. j XXIX. THE HERMIT HUNTER How gladly would I wander through some strange and savage land, The lasso at my saddle-bow, the rifle in my hand, A leash of gallant mastiffs bounding by my side, And for a friend to love, the noble horse on which I ride ! Alone, alone; yet not alone, for God is with me there, The tender hand of Providence shall guide me everywhere, While happy thoughts and holy hopes, as spirits calm and mild, Shall fan with their sweet wings the hermit hunter of the wild ! ECLECTIC SERIES. 83 Without a guide, yet guided well, young, buoyant, fresh, and free, Without a road, yet all the land a highway unto me; Without a care, without a fear, without a grief or pain, Exultingly I thread the woods, or gallop o'er the plain ! Or, brushing through the copse, from his leafy home I start The stately elk or tusky boar, the bison or the hart; And then, with eager spur, to scour away, away! Nor stop until my dogs have brought the glorious brute to bay. Or, if the gang of hungry wolves come yelling on my track, I make my ready rifle speak, and scare the cowards back; Or, if the lurking leopard's eyes among the branches shine, A touch upon the trigger, and his spotted skin is mine ! And then the hunter's savory fare, at tranquil eventide, The dappled deer I shot to-day, upon the green hillside; My feasted hounds are slumbering round, beside the watercourse, And plenty of sweet prairie-grass for thee, my noble horse. FROM TUPPEK. XXX. THE DOCTOR. SCENE I. CHARACTERS. Gregory and his wife Dorcas. (Enter Dorcas and Gregory.) Gregory. I TELL you no, I wont comply, and it is my business to talk and to command. Dorcas. And I tell you, you shall conform to my will. I was not married to you to suffer your ill-humors. Greg. the intolerable fatigue of matrimony ! Aris- totle never said a better thing in his life, than when he told us, "that a wife is worse than a plague." Dor. Hear the learned gentleman, with his Aristotles. Greg. And a learned man I am, too. Find me out a maker of fagots, that 's able, like myself, to reason upon things, or that can boast such an education as mine. Dor. An education ! Greg. Ay, woman, a regular education ; first at the char- ity-school, where I learnt to read ; then I waited on a gen- tleman at Oxford, where I learnt very near as much as my master ; from whence I attended a traveling physician 84 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. six years, under the facetious denomination of a Merry Andrew, where I learnt physic. Dor. that thou hadst followed him still! Ah! ill- fated hour, wherein I answered the parson, I will. Greg. And ill-fated be the parson that asked me the question ! Dor. You have reason to complain of him, indeed, who ought to be on your knees every moment, returning thanks to heaven, for that great blessing it sent you, when it sent you myself. I hope you have not the assurance to think you deserve such a wife as I. Greg. No, really, I do n't think I do. Come, come, madam, it was a lucky day for you, when you found me out. Dor. Lucky, indeed ! a fellow who eats every thing I have. . Greg. That happens to be a mistake, for I drink some part on 't. Dor. That has not even left me a bed to lie on. Greg. You'll rise the earlier. Dor. And who, from morning till night, is constantly in an alehouse. Grey. 'T is genteel. The squire does the same. Dor. And do you imagine, sot Greg. Hark ye, my dear; you know my temper is not over and above passive, and that my arm is extremely ac- tive. Dor. I laugh at your threats, poor, beggarly, insolent fellow. Greg. Soft object of my wishing eyes, I shall play witli your pretty ears. Dor. Touch me if you dare, you insolent, impudent, dirty, lazy Greg. Oh, ho, ho ! you will have it then, I find. (Beats her.) Dor. murder ! murder ! (Enter Squire Robert.) Robert. What 's the matter here ? Fie upon you, neigh- bor, to beat your wife in this scandalous manner. ECLECTIC SERIES. 85 Dor. Well, sir, and I have a mind to be beat, and what then? Rob. dear, madam ! I give my consent, with all my heart and soul. Dor. What 's that, you saucebox ? Is it any business of yours ? Rob. No, certainly, madam. Dor. Here 's an impertinent fellow for you ; wont suf- fer a husband to beat his own wife ! Rob. Neighbor, I ask your pardon, heartily; here, take and thrash your wife ; beat her as you ought to do. Greg. No, sir, I wont beat her. Rob. ! sir, that 's another thing. Greg. I '11 beat her when I please, and will not beat her when I do not please. She is my wife, and not yours. Rob. Certainly. Dor. Give me the stick, dear husband. Rob. Well, if I ever attempt to part husband and wife again, may I be beaten myself. (Exit.*) Greg. Come, my dear, let us be friends. Dor. What, after beating me so? Greg. 'T was but in jest. Dor. I desire you will crack your jests on your own bones next time, not on mine. Greg. Psha ! you know, you and I are one, and I beat one half of myself, when I beat you. Dor. Yes, but for the future, I desire you will beat the other half of yourself. Greg. Come, my pretty dear, I ask pardon. I 'm sorry for 't. Dor. For once, I pardon you ; but you shall pay for it. Greg. Psha ! psha ! child, these are only little affairs, necessary in friendship. Four or five good blows with a cudgel, between your very fond couples, only tend to highten the affections. I '11 now to the wood, and I prom- ise thee to make a hundred fagots before I come home again. (Exit.) Dor. If I am not revenged on those blows of yours ! Oh, that I could but think of some method to be revenged 86 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. on him ! Oh, that I could find out some invention to get him well drubbed! FKOM FIELDING. XXXI THE DOCTOR SCENE II. CHARACTERS. Harry, and James, and Dorcas. (Enter Harry and James. Dorcas in the background.} Harry. WERE ever two fools sent on such a message as we are, in quest of a dumb doctor ? James. Blame your own paltry memory, that made you forget his name. For my part, I'll travel through the world, rather than return without him. That were as much as a limb or two were worth. Ear. Was ever such a sad misfortune ? to lose the let- ter ! I should not even know his name, if I were to hear it. Dor. (Aside.) Can I find no invention to be revenged? Heyday! who are these? Jam. Hark ye, mistress. Do you know where where where doctor what-d'ye-call him, lives? Dor. Doctor who? Jam. Doctor doctor what's his name? Dor. Hey ! what! has the fellow a mind to banter me? Har. Is there no physician hereabout, famous for curing dumbness? Dor. I fancy you have no need of such a physician Mr. Impertinence. Har. Don't mistake us, good woman. We don't mean banter you. We are sent by our master, whose daugh- ter has lost her speech, for a certain physician, who lives hereabout. We have lost our direction, and 'tis as much as our lives are worth, to return without him. Dor. There is one Doctor Lazy lives just by, but he has left off practicing. You would not get him a mile, to save the lives of a thousand patients. Jam. Direct us but to him. We'll bring him with us, one way or other, I warrant you. ECLECTIC SERIES. 87 Har. Ay, ay, we'll have him with us, though we carry him on our backs. Dor. (Aside.~) Ha ! revenge inspires me with one of the most admirable thoughts to punish my husband, for treating me so badly. He's reckoned one of the best physicians in the world, especially for dumbness. Har. Pray tell us where he lives ? Dor. You '11 never be able to get him out of his own house. But, if you watch hereabout, you '11 certainly meet with him, for he very often amuses himself here with cutting wood. Har. A physician cut wood ! Jam. I suppose he amuses himself in searching after herbs, you mean. Dor. No, he's one of the most extraordinary men in the world. He goes dressed like a common clown ; for there is nothing he so much dreads, as to be known for a physician. Jam. All your great men have strange oddities about 'em. Dor. Why, he will suffer himself to be beat, before he will own himself to be a physician. I '11 give you my word, you'll never make him own himself one, unless you both of you, take a good cudgel and thrash him into it. 'T is what we are all forced to do, when we have any need of him. Jam. What a ridiculous whim is here ! Dor. Very true ; and in so great a man. Jam. And is he so very skillful a man ? Dor. Skillful ! why, he does miracles. About half a year ago, a woman was given over by all her physicians, nay, it is said, she had been dead, some time. When this great man came to her, as soon as he saw her, he poured '< a little drop of something down her throat. He had no sooner done it, than she walked about the room as if there had been nothing the matter with her. Both. Oh, prodigious ! Dor. 'T is not above three weeks ago, that a child of, twelve years old, fell from the top of a house to the bot- 88 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. torn, and broke its skull, its arms, and legs. Our physician was no sooner drubbed into making him a visit, than hav- ing rubbed the child all over with a certain ointment, it got upon its legs, and ran away to play. Both. Oh, most wonderful ! Har. Hey ! James, we '11 drub him otft of a pot of this ointment. Jam. But can he cure dumbness ? Dor. Dumbness ! why, the curate of our parish's wife, was born dumb, and the doctor, they say, with a sort of wash, washed her tongue till he set it a-going, so that in less than a month's time, she out-talked her husband. Har. This must be the very man we were sent after. Dor. Yes, no doubt; and see, yonder he is. Jam. What, that he, yonder? Dor. The very same. He has seen us, and is taking up his ax. Jam. Come, Harry, don't let us lose one moment. Mistress, your servant. We give you ten thousand thanks for this favor. Dor. Be sure and make good use of your sticks. Jam. He shan't want for that. (Exeunt?) FROM FIELDING. XXXII. THE DOCTOR. SCENE III. CHARACTERS. Harry, and James, and Gregory. (Gregory with his ax. Enter James and Harry.} Greg. FEUGH ! 't is most confounded hot weather. Hey! who have we here ? Jam. Sir, your most obedient, humble servant. Greg. Sir, your servant. (Bowing.} Jam. We are mighty happy in finding you here. Greg. Ay, like enough. Jam. 'T is in your power, sir, to do us a very great favor. We come, sir, to implore your assistance in a cer- tain affair. Greg. If it be in my power to give you any assistance, masters, I am very ready to do it. ECLECTIC SERIES. 89 Jam. Sir, you arc extremely obliging. But, dear sir, let me beg you'd be covered, the sun will hurt your com- plexion. liar. Oh, do, good sir, be covered. Greg. (Aside.) These should be footmen, by their dress j but courtiers, by their ceremony. Jam. You must not think it strange, sir, that we come thus to seek after you. Men of your capacity will be sought after by the whole world. Greg. Truly, gentlemen, though I say it, that should not say it, I have a pretty good hand at a fagot. Jam. dear, sir ! Greg. You may, perhaps, buy fagots cheaper elsewhere. But, if you find such in all this country, you shall have mine for nothing. To make but one word, then, with you, you shall have mine for ten shillings a hundred. Jam. Don't talk in that manner, I desire you. Greg. I could riot sell 'em a penny cheaper, if 'twas to my father. Jam. Dear sir, we know you very well ; don't jest with us in this manner. Greg. Faith, master, I am so much in earnest, that I can't bate one farthing. Jam. pray, sir, leave this idle discourse. Can a per- son like you, amuse himself in this manner? Can a learned and famous physician, like you, try to disguise himself to the world, and bury such fine talents in the woods? Greg. The fellow's a ninny. Jam. Let me entreat you, sir, not to dissemble with us. Har. It is in vain, sir, we know what you are. Greg. Know what you are ! what do you know of me ? Jam. Why, we know you, sir, to be a very great phy- sician. Greg. Physician in your teeth ! I a physician ! Jam. The fit is on him. Sir, let me beseech you to conceal yourself no longer, and oblige us to you know what. Greg. Know what! No, sir; I don't know what. But I know this, that I'm no physician. NEW EC. S. 8 90 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. Jam. We must proceed to the usual remedy, I find. And so you are no physician ? Greg. No. Jam. You are no physician ? Greg. No, I tell you. Jam. Well, if we must, we must. (Seats him.") Greg. Oh ! oh ! Gentlemen ! gentlemen ! what are you doing? I am I'm whatever you'd please to have me! Jam. Why will you oblige us, sir, to this violence ? Har. Why will you force us to this troublesome rem- edy? Jam. I assure you, sir, it gives me a great deal of pain. Greg. I assure you, sir, and so it does me. But pray, gentlemen, what is the reason that you have a mind to make a physician of me ? Jam. What ! do you deny your being a physician again ? Greg. To be sure I do. I am no physician. Har. You are no physician ? Greg. May I be hanged, if I am. (They beat him.') Oh ! oh ! Dear gentlemen ! Oh ! for mercy's sake ! I am a physician, and an apothecary too, if you'll have me. I had rather be any thing, than be knocked o' the head. Jam. Dear sir, I am rejoiced to see you come to your senses. I ask pardon (ten thousand times) for what you have forced us to. Greg. Perhaps I am deceived myself, and am a physi- cian without knowing it. But, dear gentlemen, are you certain I 'ni a physician ? Jam. Yes, the greatest physician in the world. Greg. Indeed ! Har. A physician that has cured all sorts of distempers. Greg. The dickens I have ! Jam. That has made a woman walk about the room after she was dead six hours. Har. That set a child upon its legs, immediately after it had broken 'em. Jam. That made the curate's wife, who was dumb, talk faster than her husband. ECLECTIC SERIES. 91 Har. Look ye, sir. You shall be satisfied. My master will give you whatever you will demand. Greg. I shall have whatever I will demand? Jam. You may depend upon it. Greg. . I am a physician without doubt. I had forgot it, but I begin to recollect myself. Well, and what is the distemper 1 am to cure? Jam. My young mistress, sir, has lost her tongue. Greg. Well, what if she has ; do you think I 've found it? But, come, gentlemen, if I must go with you, I must. (Exeunt.) FROM FIELDING. XXXIIL THE DOCTOR SCENE IV. CHARACTERS. Sir Jasper, James, and Gregory. (Enter Sir Jasper and James.) Sir Jasper. WHERE is he? Where is he? Jam. Only recruiting himself after his journey. You need not be impatient, sir, for were my young lady dead, he'd bring her to life again. He makes no more of bringing a patient to life, than other physicians do of kill- ing him. Sir J. 'T is strange so great a man should have those unaccountable odd humors you mentioned. Jam. 'T is but a good blow or two, and he comes im- mediately to himself. Here he is. (Enter Gregory.) Sir, this is the doctor. Sir J. Dear sir, you are the welcomest man in the world. Greg. Hippocrates says, we should both be covered. Sir J. Ha ! does Hippocrates say so ? In what chapter, pray? Greg. In his chapter of hats. Sir J. Since Hippocrates says so, I shall obey him. Greg. Doctor, after having exceedingly traveled in the highway of letters Sir J. Doctor ! pray whom do you speak to ? 92 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKEK. Greg. To you, doctor. Sir J. Ha! ha! I am a knight, thank the king's grace for it; but no doctor. Greg. What! you're no doctor? Sir J. No, upon my word. Greg. You're no doctor? Sir J. Doctor! no. Greg. There; 't is done. (Beats him.'} Sir J. Done! in the name of mischief, what's done? Greg. Why, now you are made a doctor of physic. (Aside.) I am sure 'tis all the degrees I ever took. Sir J. What bedlamite of a fellow have you brought i c\ * O here ? Jam. I told you, sir, the doctor had strange whims with him. Sir J. Whims ! Truly ! I shall bind his physician- Bhip over to his good behavior, if he have any more of these whims. Greg. Sir, I ask pardon for the liberty I have taken. Sir J. Oh ! 't is very well ; 't is very well, for once. Greg. I am sorry for these blows. Sir J. Nothing at all, nothing at all, sir. Greg. Which I was obliged to have the honor of lay- ing so thick on you. Sir J. Let's talk no more of 'em, sir. My daughter, doctor, is fallen into a very strange distemper. Greg. Sir, I am overjoyed to hear it. I wish, with all my heart, you and your whole family, had the same occa- sion for me as your daughter, to show the great desire I have to serve you. Sir J. Sir, I am obliged to you. Greg. I assure you, sir, I speak from the very bottom of my soul. Sir J. I do believe you, sir, from the very bottom of mine. Greg. What is your daughter's name? Sir J. My daughter's name is Charlotte. Greg. Are you sure she was christened Charlotte ? Sir J. No, sir ; she was christened Charlotta. ECLECTIC SERIES. 93 G-reg. Hum! I bad rather she should have been chris- tened Charlotte. Charlotte is a very good name for a patient ; and, let me tell you, the name is often of as much service to the patient, as the physician is. Pray, what's the matter with your daughter? What's her distemper? Sir J. Why, her distemper, doctor, is, that she has be- come dumb, and no one can assign the cause; and this distemper, sir, has kept back her marriage. Greg. Kept back her marriage ? why so ? SirJ. Because her lover refuses to have her till she 's cured. Greg. 0! was ever such a fool, that would not have his wife dumb? Would to heaven my wife was dumb. I'd be far from desiring to cure her. Does this distemper op- press her very much? Sir J. Yes, sir. Greg. So much the better. Has she any great pains? Sir J. Very great. Greg. That's just as I would have it. We great phy- sicians know a distemper immediately. I know some of the college would call your daughter's distemper the Boree, or the Coupee, or the Sinkee, or twenty other distempers. But I give you my word, sir, your daughter is nothing more than dumb. So I 'd have you be very easy, for there is nothing else the matter with her ; if sjie were not dumb, she would be as well as I am. Sir J. But I should be glad to know, doctor, from whence her dumbness proceeds. Greg. Nothing so easily accounted for. Her dumbness proceeds from her having lost her speech. Sir J. But whence, if you please, proceeds her having lost her speech ? Greg. All our best authors will tell you, it is the im- pediment of the action of the tongue. Sir J. But, if you please, dear sir, your sentiment upon that impediment. Greg. Aristotle has, upon that subject, said very fine things ; very fine things. Sir J. I believe it, doctor. 94 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. Greg. Ah ! he was a great man. He was indeed a very great man, who, upon that subject, was a man that but, to return to our reasoning. I hold that this impediment of the action of the tongue is caused by certain humors, which our great physician calls humors humors ah! you understand Latin Sir J. Not in the least. Greg. What ! not understand Latin ? Sir J. No, indeed, doctor. Greg. Cabricius arci Thurum Cathalimus, Singulariter non. Haec musa, hie, haec, hoc, Genitivo hujus, hunc,' hanc, Musse, Bonus, bona, bonum. Sir J. Ah ! why did I neglect my studies ? Jam. What a prodigious man is this! Greg. Besides, sir, certain spirits, passing from the left side, which is the seat of the liver, to the right, which is the seat of the heart, we find the lungs, which we call in Latin, Whiskerus, having communication with the brain, which we name in Greek, Jackbootos, by means of a hol- low vein, which we call in Hebrew, Periwiggus, meet in the road with the said spirits, which fill the venticles of the Omotaplasmus, and because the said humors have a certain malignity listen seriously, I beg you Sir J. I do. Greg. Have a certain malignity, that is caused be at- tentive, if you please Sir J. I am. Greg. That is caused, I say, by the acrimony of the humors, engendered in the concavity of the diaphragm ; thence it arises, that these vapors, Propriaque maribus tribuunter, mascula dicas, Ut sunt divorum. This, sir, is the cause of your daughter's being dumb. Jam. O that I had but his tongue ! Sir J. It is impossible to reason better, no doubt. But, dear sir, there is one thing. I always thought till now, that the heart was on the left side, and the liver on the right Greg. Ay, sir, so they were formerly, but we have changed all that. The college, at present, sir, proceeds upon an entire new method. ECLECTIC SERIES. 95 Sir J. I ask your pardon, sir. Greg. Oh, sir, there's no harm. You're not obliged to know so much as we do. Sir J. Very true ; but, doctor, what would you have done with my daughter ? Greg. What would I have done with her? Why, my advice is, that you immediately put her into a bed, warmed with a brass warming-pan. Cause her to drink one quart of spring water, mixed with one pint of brandy, six Seville oranges, and three ounces of the best double refined sugar. Sir J. Why, this is punch, doctor. Greg. Punch, sir ! Ay, sir ; and what 's better than punch, to make people talk ? Never tell me of your juleps, your gruels your your this, and that, and t'other, which are only arts to keep a patient in hand a long time. I love to do a business all at once. Sir J. Doctor, I ask pardon, you shall be obeyed. (Gives money.) Greg. But hold ! Sir Jasper, let me tell you, it were not amiss if you yourself took a little lenitive physic. I shall prepare something for you. Sir J. Ha ! ha ! ha ! No, no, doctor. I have escaped both doctors and distempers hitherto, and I am resolved the distemper shall pay me the first visit. Greg. Say you so, sir? Why, then, if I can get no more patients here, I must even seek 'em elsewhere; and so humbly beggo te Domine Doinitii veniam goundi foras. (Exit.) Sir J. Well, this is a physician of vast capacity, but of exceeding odd humors. He, no doubt, understands himself, however, and I have great faith in his prescrip- tion. (Exeunt.) FEOM FIELDING. 96 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. XXXIV. REMOVAL OF TROOPS FROM BOSTON. THE EARL of CHATHAM, (Win. Pitt, the elder,) was a warm and in- fluential friend of America, during the Revolutionary war. His speeches are among the richest specimens of eloquence in any language. For some of these, see McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader. If it should be desired to make the following somewhat shorter, it may appropriately end with the sixth paragraph. I RISE with astonishment, to see these papers brought to your table, at so late a period of this business. Papers, to tell us what? Why, what all the world knew before. That the Americans, irritated by repeated injuries, and stripped of their inborn rights and dearest privileges, have resisted, and entered into associations for the preservation of their common liberties. Had the early situation of the people of Boston been attended to, things would not have come to this. But the infant complaints of Boston were literally treated like the capricious squalls of a child, who, it was said, did not know whether it was aggrieved or not. But full well I knew, at that time, that this child, if not redressed, would soon as- sume the courage and voice of a man. Full well I knew, that the sons of ancestors, born under the same free con- stitution, and once breathing the same liberal air as Eng- lishmen, would resist upon the same principles, and on the same occasions. What has government done ? They have sent an armed force, consisting of seventeen thousand men, to dragoon the Bostonians into what is called their duty. So far from once turning their eyes to the policy and destructive con- sequence of this scheme, they are constantly sending out more troops. And we are told in the language of menace, that, if seventeen thousand men wont do, fifty thousand shall. It is true, my lords, with this force they may ravage the country. They may waste and destroy as they march. But, in the progress of fifteen hundred miles, can they ECLECTIC SERIES. 97 occupy the places they have passed? Will not a country, which can produce three millions of people, wronged arid insulted as they are, start up like hydras in every corner, and gather fresh strength from fresh opposition ? Nay, what dependence can you have upon the soldiery, the un- happy engines of your wrath? They are Englishmen, who must feel for the privileges of Englishmen. Do you think that these men can turn their arms against their brethren ? Surely not. A victory must be to them a defeat ; and car- nage, a sacrifice. But it is not merely. the three millions of America, we have to contend with in this unnatural struggle; many more are on their side, dispersed over the face of this wide empire. Every whig in this country and in Ireland is with them. Who, then, let me demand, has given, and contin- ues to give, this strange and unconstitutional advice? I do not mean to level at any one man, or any particu- lar set of men ; but thus much I will venture to declare, that, if his majesty continues to hear such counselors, he will not only be badly advised, but undone. He may con- tinue indeed to wear his crown : but it will not be worth his wearing. Robbed of so principal a jewel as America, it will lose its luster, and no longer beam that effulgence which should irradiate the brow of majesty. In this alarming crisis, I come, with this paper in my hand, to offer you the best of my experience and advice. That is, that an humble petition be presented to his majesty, beseeching him, that in order to open the way toward a happy settlement of the dangerous troubles in America, it may graciously please him, that immediate orders be given to General Gage to remove his majesty's forces from the town of Boston. And this, my lords, upon the most mature and delibe- rate grounds, is the best advice I can give you, at this juncture. Such conduct will convince America that you mean to try her cause in the spirit of freedom and inquiry, and not in letters of blood. There is no time to be lost. Every hour is big with danger. Perhaps, while I am now speaking, the decisive blow is struck, which may involve NEW EC. S. 9 98 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. millions in the consequence. And, believe me, the very first drop of blood which is shed, will cause a wound which may never be healed. FROM CHATHAM. XXXV, THE STAMP ACT. A CHARGE is brought against gentlemen sitting in this House of giving birth to sedition in America. Several have spoken their sentiments with freedom against this unhappy act, and that freedom has become their crime. Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House im- puted as a crime. But the imputation shall not discour- age me. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that Amer- ica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I would not debate a particular point of law with the gentleman. I know his abilities. But, for the defense of liberty, upon a general principle, upon a constitutional principle, it is a ground on which I stand firm, on which I dare meet any man. "The gentleman boasts of his bounties to America. Are not those bounties intended finally for the benefit of this kingdom? If they are not, he has misapplied the national treasures. He asks, When were the Colonies emancipated? I desire to know when they were made slaves ! But 1 dwell not upon words. I will be bold to affirm, that the profits of Great Britain from the trade of the Colonies, through all its branches, are two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war. This is the price America pays for her protection. And shall a miserable financier come, with a boast that he can fetch a pepper-corn into the exchequer, by the loss of millions to the nation? great deal has been said, without doors, of the power, of the strength, of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, the force of this country can crush America to atoms. I know the ECLECTIC SERIES. 99 valor of your troops. I know the skill of your officers. But on this ground, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, even your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the Constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen ? The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side! I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. " Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind." Let the Stamp Act be repealed; and let the reason for the repeal because the Act was founded on an erroneous princi- ple be assigned. Let it be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately ! FROM CHATHAM. XXXVI. RECONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. AMERICA, my lords, can not be reconciled to this coun- try, she ought not to be reconciled, till the troops of Britain are withdrawn. How can America trust you, with the bay- onet at her breast? How can she suppose that you mean less than bondage or death? The way must be immedi- ately opened for reconciliation. It will soon be too late. An hour, now lost in allaying ferments in America, may produce years of calamity. Never will I desert, for a mo- ment, the conduct of this weighty business. Unless nailed to my bed by the extremity of sickness, I will pursue it to the end. I will knock at the door of this sleeping and confounded ministry, and will, if it be possible, rouse them to a sense of their danger. I contend not for indulgence, but for justice, to America. What is our right to persist in such cruel and vindictive, acts against a loyal, respectable people? They say 'you 100 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. have no right to tax them without their consent. They say truly. Representation and taxation must go together. They are inseparable. I therefore urge and conjure your lordships immediately to adopt this conciliating measure. If illegal violences have been, as is said, committed in Amer- ica, prepare the way, open the door of possibility, for acknowledgment and satisfaction. But proceed not to such coercion, such proscription. Cease your indiscriminate in- flictions. Amerce not thirty thousand. Oppress not three millions ; irritate them not to unappeasable rancor, for the fault of forty or fifty. Such severity of injustice must forever render incurable the wounds you have inflicted. What though you march from town to town, from province to province ! What though you enforce a temporary and local submission ! How shall you secure the obedience of the country you leave behind you in your progress? How grasp the dominion of eighteen hundred miles of continent, populous in num- bers, strong in valor, liberty, and the means of resistance? The spirit which" now resists your taxation, in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolence, and ship-money, in England ; the same spirit which aroused all England, and, by the Bill of Rights, vindicated the English Constitution ; the same spirit which established the great, fundamental, essential maxim of your liberties, that no subject of England shall l>e taxed but by his own con- sent. This glorious spirit animates three millions in Amer- ica, who prefer poverty, with liberty, to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defense of their rights as men, as freemen. What shall oppose this spirit, aided by the congenial flame glowing in the breast ef every Whig in England? " 'T is liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied. It is the alliance of God and nature ; immutable, eternal ; fixed as the firmament of Heaven. FROM CHATHAM. ECLECTIC SERIES. 101 XXXVII. ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING. No. I. THIS and the following extract, may be spoken separately or to- gether. I MOST cheerfully agree with the first portion of the address moved by the noble lord. I would even go and prostrate myself at the foot of the throne, were it necessary, to testify my joy at any event, which may promise to add to the domestic felicity of my sovereign ; at any thing, which may seem to give a further security to the permanent enjoyment of the religious and civil rights of my fellow- subjects. But while I do this, I must, also, express my strongest disapprobation of the address, and the fatal measures which it approves. It has been customary, for the king, on similar occasions, not to lead parliament, but to be guided ly it. It has been usual, I say, to ask the advice of this house, the hereditary great council of the nation, not to dictate to it. What does this speech say? It tells you of measures already agreed upon, and very cavalierly desires your concurrence. It, indeed, talks of wisdom and support. It counts on the certainty of events )^et in the womb of time; but in point of plan and design, it is peremptory and dictatorial. Is this a proper language, fit to be endured? Is this high pretension to overrule the dispositions of Providence itself, and the will and judgment of parliament, justified by any former conduct or precedent ? No, it is the language of an ill-founded confidence : a confidence, I will be bold to say, supported hitherto only by a succession of disappointments, disgraces, and defeats. I am astonished how any minister dare advise his majesty to hold such a language to your lordships. I would be glad to see the minister that dare avow it in his place. What is the import of this extraordinary application? What, but an unlimited confidence in those who have hitherto misguided, deceived, and misled you? It is, I maintain, unlimited. It desires you to grant not what you may be satisfied is necessary, but what his majesty's 102 MCGUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. ministers may choose to think so; troops, fleets, treaties, and subsidies, not yet revealed. Should your lordships agree to the present address, you will stand pledged to all this. You can not retreat. It binds you to the consequences, be they what they may. Whoever gave this pernicious coun- sel to the king, ought to be made answerable to this house, and to the nation at large, for the consequences. The precedent is dangerous and unconstitutional. Who, I say, has had the temerity to tell the king that his affairs are in a prosperous condition? And who, of course, is the author of those assurances which are this day given you, in order to mislead you? What is the present state of this nation? It is big with difficulty and danger. It is full of the most destructive circumstances. I say, my lords, it is truly perilous. What are these little islands, Great Britain and Ireland? What is your defense? Nothing. What is the condition of your formidable and inveterate enemies, the two leading branches of the house of Bourbon? They have a formidable navy. I say their intentions are hostile. I know it. Their coasts are lined with troops, from the furthermost part of the coast of Spain up to Dun- kirk. What have you to oppose them? Not five thousand men in this island; nor more in Ireland; nor above twenty ships of the line manned and fit for service. Without peace, without an immediate restoration of tranquillity, thig nation is ruined. FROM CHATHAM. XXXVni. ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING. No. II. NOTE. Where a speech, like this, closes with a question winch requires the rising inflection, the falling inflection should be substi- tuted for the rising. WHAT has been the conduct of our ministers? How have they endeavored to conciliate the affection and obedi- ence of their American brethren ? They have gone to Germany. They have sought the alliance and assistance of every pitiful, beggarly, insignificant, paltry German ECLECTIC SERIES. 103 prince, to cut the throats of their loyal, brave, and injured brethren in America. They have entered into mercenary treaties with those human butchers, for the purchase and sale of human blood. But, this is not all. They have entered into other treaties. They have let the savages of America loose upon their innocent, unoffending brethren ; upon the weak, the aged, and defenseless ; on old men, women, and children ; upon the very babes upon the breast, to be cut, mangled, sacrificed, broiled, roasted, nay, to be literally eaten alive. These are the allies Great Britain now has : carnage, desolation, and destruction, wherever her arms are carried, is her newly adopted mode of making war. Our ministers have made alliances at the German shambles, and with the barbarians of America; with the merciless torturers of their species. Where they will next apply, I can not tell : having already scoured all Germany and America, to seek the assistance of cannibals and butchers. The arms of this country are disgraced, even in victory as well as defeat. Is this consistent, my lords, with any part of our former conduct ? Was it by means like these we arrived at that pinnacle of fame and grandeur, which, while it established our reputation in every quarter of the globe, gave the fullest testimony of our justice, mercy, and national integrity ? Was it by the tomahawk and scalping-knife, that British valor and humanity became proverbial, and the triumphs of war and the eclat of con- quest became but matters of secondary praise, when com- pared to those of national humanity, and national honor? Was it by setting loose the savages of America, to im- brue their hands in the blood of our enemies, that the duties of the soldier, the citizen, and the man, came to be united? Is this honorable warfare? Does it correspond with the language of the poet, in "The pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, That makes ambition a virtue?" FROM CHATHAM. 104 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. XXXIX. APOSTROPHE TO LIBERTY. WILLIAM TELL, the Washington of Switzerland, after having escaped from the dungeon of the tyrant who had invaded his country, utters the following. ONCE more I breathe the mountain air; once more I tread my own free hills! My lofty soul Throws all its fetters off; in its proud flight, 'T is like the new-fledged eaglet, whose strong wing Soars to the sun it long has gazed upon With eye undazzled. O ! ye mighty race That stand like frowning giants, fixed to guard My own proud land; why did ye not hurl down The thundering avalanche, when at your feet The base usurper stood ? A touch, a breath, Nay, even the breath of prayer, ere now, has brought Destruction on the hunter's head; and yet The tyrant passed in safety. God of Heaven! Where slept thy thunderbolts ? Oh ! with what pride I used To walk these hills, and look up to my God! This land was free, From end to end, from cliff to lake 't was free, Free as our torrents are, that leap our rocks, And plow our valleys; Or as our peaks, that wear their caps of snow, In very presence of the regal sun ! How happy was I in it then! I loved Its very storms ! Yes, I have sat and eyed The thunder breaking from his cloud, and smiled To see him shake his lightnings o'er my head, And think I had no master save his own! O LIBERTY ! Thou choicest gift of Heaven, and wanting which Life is as nothing. Hast thou then forgot Thy native home? Must the feet of slaves Pollute this glorious scene ? It can not be. Even as the smile of Heaven can pierce the depths Of these dark caves, and bid the wild flowers bloom In spots where man has never dared to tread; So thy sweet influence still is seen amid These beetling cliffs. Some hearts still beat for thee, ECLECTIC SERIES. 105 And bow alone to Heaven. Thy spirit lives, Ay, and shall live, when even the very name Of tyrant is forgot. Lo ! while I gaze Upon the mist that wreathes yon mountain's brow, The sunbeam touches it, and it becomes A crown of glory on his hoary head. O ! is not this a presage of the dawn Of freedom o'er the world? Hear me, then, bright And beaming Heaven! while kneeling thus, I vow To live for freedom, or with her to die ! FROM KNOWLES. XL. GERTRUDE. THE husband of Gertrude was condemned by a tyrant to die upon the wheel, and was attended in his last moments, with heroic fidel- ity, by his wife. HER hands were clasped, her dark eyes raised, The breeze threw back her hair; Up to the fearful wheel she gazed, All that she loved was there. The night was round her clear and cold, The holy heaven above; Its pale stars watching to behold The might of earthly love. "And bid me not depart," she cried, "My Rudolph! say not so! This is no time to quit thy side, Peace, peace ! I can not go. Hath the world aught for me to fear When death is on thy brow ? The world! what means it? mine is here; I will not leave thee now! ^ " I have been with thee in thine hour Of glory and of bliss, Doubt not its memory's living power To strengthen me through this! And thou, mine honored love and true, Bear on, bear nobly on! 106 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. We have the bless-ed Heaven in view. Whose rest shall soon be won." And were not these, high words to flow From Woman's breaking heart? Through all that night of bitterest woe, She bore her lofty part: But oh ! with such a freezing eve With such a curdling cheek! Love, love ! of mortal agony, Thou, only thou, shouldst speak! The wind rose high, but with it rose Her voice, that he might hear; Perchance that dark hour brought repose To happy bosoms near; While she sat striving with despair Beside his tortured form, And pouring her deep soul in prayer Forth on the rushing storm. She wiped the death-damps from his brow, With her pale hands and soft, Whose touch, upon the lute chords low, Had stilled his heart so oft She spread her mantle o'er his breast, She bathed his lips with dew, And on his cheek such kisses pressed, As Joy and Hope ne'er knew. Oh! lovely are ye, Love and Faith, Enduring to the last! She had her meed; one smile in death; And his worn spirit passed. While even as o'er a martyr's grave, She knelt on that sad spot, And weeping, blessed the God who gave Strength to forsake it not! FKOM MBS. HEMANS. ECLECTIC SERIES. 107 XLL DESCRIPTION OF A FOP. THIS is the apology of Hotspur for not delivering his prisoners to King Henry, and is followed, in Shakspeare, by the dialogue which forms the succeeding exercise. It may be spoken independently, or in connection with that. MY liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dressed, Fresh as a bridegroom : and his chin, new reaped, Showed like a stubble-land at harvest home. He was perfu'-med like a milliner. Betwixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which, ever and anon, He gave his nose, and took 't away again. And still he smiled, and talked ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them, untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse, Betwixt the wind and his nobility. With many holiday and lady terms, He questioned me ; among the rest demanded My prisoners, in your majesty's behalf. I then, all smarting, with my wounds being cold, To be so pestered with a popinjay, Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered, neglectingly, I know not what; He should, or should not. For he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman, Of guns, and drums, and wounds: (Heaven save the mark!) And telling me, the sovereign' st thing on earth Was parmacity, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous saltpeter should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good, tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. 108 M C GUFFEY'S NEW SPEAKER. This bald, unjointed chat of his, my lord, I answered indirectly, as I said; And, I beseech you, let not his report Come current for an accusation, Betwixt my love and your high majesty. FROM SHAKSPEARE. XLII HOTSPUR AND KING HENRY IV. King Henry. You still deny your prisoners, But with proviso and exception, That we, at our own charge, shall ransom straight Your brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer ! No ; on the barren mountains let him starve ! For I shall never hold that man my friend, Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted Mortimer. Hotspur. Revolted Mortimer ! He never did fall off, my sovereign liege, But by the chance of war. K. Hen. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him. Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer. Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, Or you shall hear in such a kind from me As will displease you. (Exit King Henry.) Hot. And if the devil come and roar for them, I will not send them. I will after straight, And tell him so; for I will ease my heart, Although it be with hazard of my head. (Enter Worcester.) Worcester. What! drunk with choler? Stay and pause awhile. Hot. Speak of Mortimer ? Zounds, I will speak of him ; and let iny soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him ! In his behalf, I'll empty all these veins, And shed my dear blood, drop by drop, in the dust, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer As high in the air as this unthankful king, As this ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke ! Wor. Who struck this heat up ? Hot. He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners; ECLECTIC SERIES. 109 And when I urged the ransom once again Of iny wife's brother, then his cheek looked pale; And on my face he turned an eye of death, Trembling even at the name of Mortimer. War. Peace, cousin, say no more. And now I will unclasp a secret book, And to your quick-conceiving discontent I '11 read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril and adventurous spirit, As to o'erwalk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good-night ! or sink or swim, Send danger from the east unto the west, So honor cross it from the north to south, And let them grapple. O ! the blood more stirs To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. Wor. (Aside.) Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. Methihks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drown-ed honor by the locks ; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear, Without a rival, all her dignities. But out upon this half-faced fellowship ! Wor. (Aside.) He apprehends a world of figures here, But not the form of what he should attend. (Aloud.) Good cousin, give me audience for a while. Hot. I cry you mercy. Wor. Those same noble Scots, That are your prisoners Hot. I'll keep them all; He shall not have a Scot of them, not one; I'll keep them, by this hand. Wor. You start away, And lend no ear unto my purposes. Those prisoners you shall keep. Hot. Nay, I will ; that's flat : | TJ-JT I V E R C He said he would not ransom Mortimer; % ^ Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer ; ^T