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THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Note. When great force is expressed in the language, the 

 tone becomes "loud" in awe. 



Example of Awe. 

 O Thou unutterable Potentate ! 

 Through nature's vast extent, sublimely great ! 

 But here, on these gigantic mountains here, 

 Thy greatness, glory, wisdom, strength, and spirit, 

 In terrible sublimity appear ! 

 Thy awe-imposing voice is heard, we hear it ! 

 The Almighty's fearful voice : attend ! It breaks 

 The silence, and in solemn warning speaks. 

 Thou breathest ! [ 1 00 ] forest oaks of centuries 

 Turn their uprooted trunks towards the skies. 

 Thou thunderest ! [|| 00 =] adamantine mountains break, 

 Tremble, and totter, and apart are riven ! 



[ 00 ] At GOD'S almighty will, 



The affrighted world falls headlong from its sphere . 

 Planets, and suns, and sy' stems disappear ! 



Solemnity. 

 Father ! thy hand 



Eath reared these venerable columns ; Thou 

 Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down 

 Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose 

 All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, 

 Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, 

 And shot towards heaven. The century-living crow, 

 Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died 

 Among their branches, till, at last, they stood, 

 As now they stand, massy and tall and dark, 

 Fit shrme for humble worshipper to hold 

 Communion with his Maker ! 



Reverence. 



Oh ! let me often to these solitudes 

 Retire, aiid in Thy presence reassure 

 My feeble virtue. Here, its enemies, 

 The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink 

 And tremble, and are still. 

 xx 00 =] Be it ours to meditate, 

 ^n these calm shades, Thy milder majesty, 

 And, to the beautiful oruer of Thy works, 

 Learn to conform the order of our lives I 



Sublimity. 



Hail ! holy Light, offspring of heaven first born, 

 Or, of the Eternal, coeternal beam, 

 May I express thee unblamed ? since God is Light, 

 And never but in unapproached light 

 Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, 

 Bright effluence of bright essence increase ; 

 Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, 

 Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, 

 Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice 

 Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 

 The rising world of waters, dark and deep, 

 Won from the void and formless infinite. 



Rule 5. Revenge is " loud " and " low " in utterance ; when 

 deliberate, it is "slow," when violent, it is "quick;" it has 

 the "medial stress;" and "aspirated," "pectoral," and "gut- 

 tural quality," combined. It is marked by a prevalent " down- 

 ward slide." 



Examples. 



O'N them, HUSSARS ! Now give them EEIN and HE'EL ! 

 Think of the ORPHANED CHILD, the MURDERED SIRE : 

 .Earth cries for BLOOD, [ 1 1 ] in THU'NDER on them WHE'SL ! 

 This hour to Europe's fall shall set the TRIUMPH SEAL ! 



Shylock. There I have another bad match : a BA'NKRUPT, a 

 PRO'DIGAL, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a 

 BE'GGAR, that used to come so smug upon the mart : let him loofc to his 

 BOND : he was wont to call me U'SURER ; LET HIM LOOK TO HIS BO'ND : 

 he was wont to lend money for a CHRISTIAN CO'URTESY: LEI 

 HIM LOOK TO HIS BO'ND! 



Rule 6. Scorn, is characterised by "loudness," by drawling 

 " slowness," and a tone which, in the emphatic words, begins 

 on a "high" and slides to a "lew" note; by "thorough 

 stress," and oftfen a laughing " tremor," making the beginning, 

 the middle, and the end of every emphatic sound distinct, 

 and prominent, and cutting to the ear. The "quality" of the 

 voice in this tone is strongly " aspirated," but not " guttural ;" 

 the "inflection" is usually "falling," but sometimea becomes 

 the " wave " or " circumflex." 



Examples. 



Thou SLA'VE, THOU WRE'TCH, THOU COWARD! 

 Thou little valiant, great in villainy ! 

 Thou ever strong upon the stronger side I 

 Thou FORTUNE'S champion, that dost never fight 

 But when her humorous ladyship is by 

 To teach thee safety .' 

 Pale TRE'MBLING, CO'WARD [[Tremor] there I throw my 



gage : 



By that, and all the rights of knighthood else, 

 Will I make good against thee, arm to A'RM, 

 What I have spofce, or thou canst worse devise. 



Rule 7. Indignation is marked by full "loudness," "low" 

 note, and deliberate " slowness ;" a swelling " medial stress ;" 

 and the effect arising from the blending of " pectoral " and 

 "guttural" tone, to all the extent consistent with "pure" 

 " orotund," in vehement style. The characteristic inflection is 

 uniform "falling." 



Examples. 



In this complicated crisis of danger, tcJafcness, and calamity, terrified 

 and insulted by the neighbouring powers, unable to act in America, or 

 acting only to be DESTROYED, WHE'RE || is the MAN || who will venture 

 to flatter us with the hope of success from perseverance in measures 

 productive of these dire effects ? Who | has the EFFRONTERY to attempt 

 it ? WHE'RE || is that man 1 Let him, if he DA'RE, STAND FORWARD, 

 and SHOW his FA'CE. 



Rule 8. Courage, joy, ardent love, and ardent admiration, 

 are distinguished by " loud," " high," and " lively " utterance ; 

 swelling "medial stress;" perfectly smooth and "pure" 

 " quality " of tone ; and frequent " falling " inflections. 



Example of Courage and Ardent Admiration. 

 Now | for the FIGHT ! now j for the CA'NNON PEAL ! 

 FO RWARD ! through BLOOD, and TOIL, and CLOUD and FIRE ! 

 Glorious the SHOUT, the SHOCK, the crash of STE'EL, 

 The VOLLEY'S ROLL, the ROCKET'S BLASTING SPIRE. 



Joy. 



Thou Child of Joy ! 



SHOUT round me : let me HE' AR thy shouts, thou luippy 

 Shepherd Boy ! 



Ardent Love and Admiration. 



Oh ! speak again, bright angel ; for thou art 

 As glorious to this sight, being o'er my head, 

 As is a winged messenger of heaven 

 Unto the white upturned wondering eyes 

 Of mortals, that fall back to gdze on him, 

 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, 

 And sails upon the bosom of the air. 



Rule 9. Excessive grief and sorrow are expressed by "loud," 

 " high," and " slow " utterance ; " tremor," or " intermittent 

 stress;" and "pure" "quality," where not interrupted by 

 sob, or " aspiration." The "falling inflection" prevails through- 

 out the utterance of these emotions. 

 Example. 



Capulet. Ha / let me see her : Out, aids ! she's cold; 

 Her blood is settled ; and her joints are stiff; 

 Life and these lips have long been separated ; 

 Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 

 Upon the sweetest flower of all the field, 

 jlcciirsed time / unfortunate old man ! 



Lady Capulet. ACCU'RSED, UNHAPPY, WBE'TCHED, HA'TEITO. 



day ! 



Most MISERABLE hour that e'er time saw, 

 In lasting labour | of his pilgrimage ! 

 But one, poor one, ONE POOR and LOVING CHILD, 

 But one thing to rejoice and solace in, 

 And cruel death I hath catc?id it from my sight t 



LESSONS IN GEOMETRY XVIII. 



To any reader who has carefully studied our lessons on Geo- 

 metry up to this point, and looked through the table of angles 

 of regular polygons appended to the last lesson, it will be 

 obvious that there are various methods of constructing any 

 regular multilateral figure whose sides and angles are equal 

 to one another. They may be drawn indeed by the aid of the 

 protractor only in the first place ; or by meana of the circle and 



