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rywith 



. <> bocauso ho win 



and a sort 



:->-asun to think, v, 



- "guide and 



his con own familiar frutul " had proved to bo 



the sh.! 1 10 remembered too v. 



U him any personal harm. NotwithHtainlin .-, 

 .o whole guilt of the murder. Penonco 



tho most severe, disclaimers the most solemn, and ceremonies 



tho most luunilia t . drur him. Purposely 



saw in Henry the Btrongest opponent of 



If of tho handle given to it, and 



strove to crush tho king under a load of obloquy. To a very 

 great extent it succeeded. Never again did Henry appear as 

 tho same strong champion of Stato rights as when ho forced an 

 assent to tho Constitutions of Clarendon. Tho ghost of Thomas 

 .t, now St. Thomas of Canterbury, haunted him, and tho 

 dead man's hand di-privod tho conqueror of his victory. 



Tho Constitutions of Clarendon were disregarded, tho death 



of Becket making it impossible for the king to fly in tho face of 



the papal veto upon theTn. Some little submission of tho clerical 



to the kingly power was made, but tho work marked out by 



Henry II., tho entire subjection of tho clergy to tho head of tho 



i'b unaccomplished till tho dawn of tho Reformation 



hind, when it was renewed and carried out in the fullest 



' manner by that " stately lord who broke the bonds of 



Rome," and who was saved by natural causes from committing, 



in the case of Cardinal Wolsey, tho egregious blunder committed 



by the knights of Henry II. when they plunged their swords 



into the bosom of Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. 



SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS IN THE LIFE AND EEIGN OF HENRY II. 

 Henry II., son of Geoffrey Plantagenct, Count of Anjou, and 

 Maud, daughter of Henry I., was the fifth King of England 

 after the Conquest, and the first of tho Plantagenet dynasty. 



READING AND ELOCUTION. II. 



PUNCTUATION (continued;. 



I. THE PERIOD. 







1. THK Powd is a round dot or mark which is always put at the 



. 



reading, when you oomo to a period, you must stop as 

 if yon had nothing more to i 



3. Ton mtut stop only a long as yon can count o**, too, 



>u nnmt pronounce the word which in immediately before 

 a period, v. <tctian of the Toioe. 



f tho voioo is commonly 



marked by . tlitu, * . 



Example*. 



Chariot has bought a new Lit. 

 I have lout my gluves. 



Exercise and toinperanoo strengthen the constitution. 

 A WJHO on makes a glml father. 

 The (oar of tho Lord i the beginning of wisdom. 



II. THE NOTE OP IMTZBBOOATION. 



? 

 C. The note or -., 'i'/>n it a round Jot with a hoot 



7. In reading, when you come to a note of interrogation, you 

 must stop as if you waited for an answer. 



8. You must stop only as long as yon do at the period. 



9. You must in most cases pronounce the word which U 



immediately before a note of interrogation, with the 

 't'>n of the V' 



10. The rising injlcctlsu of tho voice is commonly marked by 

 tho acute accent, thus, '. 



Examples. 



Has Charles bought a new hit ? 

 Have you lost your gloves ? 

 Hast thou an arm like God ? 

 Canst thou thunder with a voice like him ? 

 If his sou ask bread, will he give him a stone? 

 If ho ask a fish, will ho give him a serpent ? 



11. In general, read declaratory sentences or statements with 

 the falling inflection, and interrogative sentences or questions 

 with tho rising inflection of the voice. 



Examples. 



Interrogative. Has John arrived ? 



Declarator!/. John has arrived. 



"gotite. Is your father well ? 



Declaratory. My father is wMl. 



Interrogative. Hast thou appealed unto Caesar ? 



Declaratory. Unto Caesar shall thou go. 



12. Sometimes the sentence which ends with a note of inter- 

 rogation should be read with ilia falling inflection of tho voice. 



Examples. 

 What o'clock is it ? 

 How do you do to-day ? 

 How much did he give for his book ? 

 Where is Abel thy brother ? 



How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity ? 

 Where wast thou, wheu I laid the foundations of the earth ? 



Sometimes the first part of an interrogative sentence should 

 be read with the ri^in-j inflection cf tho voice, and the last part 

 with the falling inflection. These parts ore generally separated 

 by a Comma, thus, , % 



14. At the comma, the rising inflection is used, and at the 

 note of interrogation the /ailing inflection. 



Examples. 



Shall I give you a peach, or an apple ? 



Are you going home, or to school ? 



Last Sabbath, did you go to church, or did yon stay at home ? 



Whether is it easier to say, Thy ems are forgiven, or to *yr. Arise 

 and walk P 



Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things t 



Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake t 



?5. Sometimes tho first part of an interrogative sentence 

 must be read with tho faUi.iy inflection of the voice, and the 

 last port with tho rising inflection. 



Examples, 



Where have you been to-day ? At home P 



Who told you to return ? Your father? 



AVli.it is that on tho top of the house P A bfcrd t 



What did you pay for that Kok ? Throe shillings P 



Is not the life more than meat ? and tho body than raiment P 



went ye out to see ? A man clothed in soft raiment t 

 went ye oat to see P A prophet P 



How often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him I 

 Until seren times P 



