lo what Extent, and how most readily altainnlh ?" 4!^7 



taste could have authorized. The same may be said of words 

 ivhose emphatic syllable was seated even on the penultimate it- 

 self, as mam], direction, relation, &c.; that is, when those words 

 were encumbered by the succeeding particles of a, to a, of the ^ 

 to the, — such particles constituting in such cases, as it were an 

 additional number of syllables, whose tendency (to use the scho- 

 lastic epithet) was decidedly enclitical. 



I shall terminate this series of observations by exhibiting to 

 the reader a collective statement of 413 syllables or notes, which 

 (exclusive of the commencing syllable of every separate essay) 

 '•■.'ere struck by the Speaker, at different times and during the 

 expression of various sentiments, from the commencement to the 

 tonchision of this examination. 



Tahle * of Occurrence, 



Repetitions 178 Sometimes imperfect. 



Semitones 113 Frequently imperfect. 



Tones . . 69^ d »i, e ^ 



«»• oi nu VKather perfect. 



Mmor 3ds 28 J ' 



Major 3ds 13 Almost all too flat. 



Fourths . . 10^ r» ^, r » 



Fifths .. 2/^^^^''" P"^"'- 



413 syllables. 



Remarks. The reader will no doubt recollect, that in the 

 course of the preceding inquiry, the intervals employed in the 

 ordinary sentiments alone, presented themselves for exaniinatiori. 

 As to the stronger sentiments, or more properly the passions^ I 

 have had no opportunity to analyse them ; yet from casual ob- 

 fcervations in common life, I am thoroughly persuaded that there 

 are not only certain intervals more appropriate than others for 

 the expression of those passions — but also certain q//alities of 

 the voice, as round, harsh, Sec. peculiar to every individual 

 emotion. 



The judicious application then of those intervals and these 

 (■r.alities mav, as far as intonation is concerned, be style<l ex- 

 pression; the former, as dependent on the knowledge of sounds, 

 f.nd appropriate cultivation of the ear an<l speaking organs, be- 

 ing the lot of few, — the latter, as more immediately connected 



• It may be necessary to elucidate this table by an example wriich, agrec- 

 .ibly to the adopted mode of computation, contains three repetitions, two 

 ^elrlI:ca€?, one lone ; viz. 



*^- m m K^J^ € s * 



with 



