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6. Sentences to be repeated for the same purpose. Whilst* bloody treason flourished o'er us.

The breadth thereof was ten cubits.

Then rush'd the steed, to battle driven.

Thou look'st from thy throne in the clouds, and laugh'st at the storm.

Now sel the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide. When shall we venture to tell what was whispered to us?

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

The short and simple annals of the poor.
Hold off your hands, gentlemen.

His attempts were fruitless.

O'erwhelmed with whirlwinds.

Up the high hill he heaves the huge round stone.

The dogs bark'd and howl'd.

The word filch is of doubtful derivation.

He was hedged in on every side.

The acts of the Apostles.

Can you say crackers, crime, cruelty, crutches?

The heights, depths, and breadths of the subject.
Search the Scriptures.

Can you whet a wet razor?

We saw on the road large droves of cattle.

It was the act, of all the acts of government, the most objectionable.

A frame of adamant.

The attempt, and not the deed, confounds us.
Do you mean plain or playing cards?

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears the palm.

* Those words are printed in italics which are most frequently mispronounced.

She swore, in faith 'twas strange, 'twas wondrous strange, 'twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. Boundless, endless, and sublime!

Mark'st thou ?

Your healths, gentlemen.

Round the rude ring the ragged rascal ran.
And on their hinges grate harsh thunder.

It is more formidable than the most clamorous oppo

sition.

What an acknowledgement of the superiority of virtue!

The strength of his nostrils is terrible.

He snarls, but dares not bite.

Where the wild beasts find shelter, but I can find none. Have you a copy of Smith's Thucydides?

I thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of my thumb.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pepper.

II. Tables for practice on the Simple Slides.

1. ee, oo, a, a, a", o, ou, i.

2. i, u, e, o', a"", e'.

3. all, old, fair, heal, dare, save, hail, thine, you, I, he, hound.

4. gone, will, sit, out, ice, ought, past, done, ask, bite.

III. Tables for practice on the Waves.

1. ee, oo, a, a', a", o, ou, i.

2. save, all, old, fair, praise, wo, move, arm, roll.

IV. Tables for practice on Radical Stress, or Abrupt

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3. it, end, edge, odd, at, up, eat, ask, art, all, ought, oaf, old, out, ice, e-ver, of-fer, act-ive, und-er, oth-er, art-ful, ov-er, oust-ed, ic-y.

V. Tables for practice on Vanishing and Compound Stress.

1. ee, oo, a, a', a”, o, ou, i.

2. he, you, may, dare, past, will, hound, bite, gone, shall.

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VI. Tables for practice on Median Stress.

ee, oo, a, a', a", o, ou, i.

2. aid, save, all, heal, old, fair, praise, wo, move, know, arm, bail, bear, roll, lord, thine, lone-ly, roy-al, glo-ry, un-known, con-ceal.

VII. Exercises on Quantity.

1. Repeat the exercises given on the Vocal Elements, in order to acquire command over very short quantity.

2. Repeat those given on Median Stress, and, if necessary, those on Vanishing and Compound stress also, to acquire command over long quantity.

3. b, d, g, 1, m, n, ng, r, v, Z, th.

4. sob, sad, dog, tell, him, son, song, her, or, live, his. 5. old, aid, all, heal, bound, end, known, aim, fair, our, save, raise, soothe, hol-y.

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7 THE atrocious | crime | 7 of | being a young | man, | 7 which the | honorable | gentleman | has, with such | spirit and | decency, | charged up | on me, || 71 shall neither attempt to | palliate, | nor de | ny; || | 7 but content myself with wishing | 7 that I may be one of those 7 whose follies | cease with their 1 ¦ youth ; ¦ ¦ 7 and I not of that number | 7 who are | ignorant | 7 in spite of experience. |||

Whether youth | 7 can be imputed to any man | 7 as a reproach, | 7 I will not assume | 7 the province of determining: || 7 but surely, | age | may become justly con temptible, || if the opportunities | 7 which it | brings | 7 have passed away | 7 without improvement, | 7 and | vice | 7 ap | pears to prevail 7 when the passions | 7 have sub sided. | ||| 7 The | wretch | 7 that, after having | seen the | consequences of a thousand | errors, | 7 con | tinues | still to | blunder, ||1 and whose | age | 7 has | only | added obstinacy | 7 to stupidity, | 7 is surely the | object | 7 of | either ab | horrence | 7 or con | tempt;

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า 7 and deserves not | 7 that his | grey | head | 1 should secure him from | insults. ||| Much | more 7 is he to be abhorred | who, as he has advanced in | age, 7 has receded from | virtue, | 7 and be | comes |

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less temptation: || 7 who | money | 7 which he cannot spends the remains of his country. |||

life | 7

only | crime. ||| I

acting a theatrical |

1 But youth | 7 is not my have been accused | 7 of

part. |||

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1 A theatrical | part, | may either im | ply | some peculiarities of gesture, | 1 or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, | 7 and an adoption of the | opinions and language | 1 of an | other | man. || 7 In the first sense, 1 the charge is too | trifling to be con❘ futed: || 7 and de | serves only to be mentioned, || that it | may be de | spised. | || I am at liberty | 7 (like | every | other | man) |1 to | use my own | language: | and | though I may | 7 perhaps, | 1have | some | 7am | bition, | yet, to | please| this gentleman, | I shall | not | lay myself | 7 under | any re | straint, | 7 or | very | 7 so | licitously | copy | his | diction, 7 or his | mien; | 7 how | ever | 7 ma | tured by age, | 1 or | modelled by ex | perience. ||| 1 If any man shall, | 7 by | charging me | 7 with the atrical behavior, | 7 im | ply | 7 that I utter | any | sentiments | but my | own, | 7 I shall | treat | him | as a ca | lumniator | 7 and a | villain: || nor shall | any protection shelter him | 7 from the treatment | which he deserves. ||| 7 I| shall, | 7 on | such an oc | | casion, 1 with out | scruple | trample upon | all those forms 1 with which | wealth and dignity | 7 en trench themselves; || nor shall | any thing | but age 7 restrain my re | sentment : || age, |7 which | always | brings one | privilege; || that | 7 of | being

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