not suffered as some of us
have suffered in the turmoil and strife of life. You can mould
opinion, you can create political power,--you cannot think a good
thought on this subject and communicate it to your neighbours,--you
cannot make these points topics of discussion in your social circles
and more general meetings, without affecting sensibly and speedily the
course which the government of your country will pursue. May I ask
you, then, to believe, as I do most devoutly believe, that the moral
law was not written for men alone in their individual character, but
that it was written as well for nations, and for nations great as this
of which we are citizens. If nations reject and deride that moral law,
there is a penalty which will inevitably follow. It may not come at
once, it may not come in our lifetime; but, rely upon it, the great
Italian is not a poet only, but a prophet, when he says:

The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite,
Nor yet doth linger.

5. We have experience, we have beacons, we have landmarks enough. We
know what the past has cost us, we know how much and how far we have
wandered, but we are not left without a guide. It is true, we have
not, as an ancient people had, Urim and Thummin--those oraculous gems
in Aaron's breast--from which to take counsel, but we have the
unchangeable and eternal principles of the moral law to guide us, and
only so far as we walk by that guidance can we be permanently a great
nation, or our people a happy people.

--_The Right Honourable John Bright_

BARONIAL, CASTLES, CHARACTER, PAST. (Appendix A, 1.)

Par. 1. MILITARY GREATNESS, MILITARY RENOWN. Note the
transferred Emphasis. (Introduction, pp. 31 and 32.)

CROWNS, CORONETS, ETC. Explain the Inflection on each
member of this series. Give similar examples from this
paragraph and from Pars. 3, 4, and 5.

UNLESS WITH THEM, ETC. How does the voice prepare the
listener for this clause? Give a similar example from
Par. 4.

YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN, ETC. How is this clause made
prominent?

Par. 2. Give an analysis of the second sentence from the
standpoint of Perspective.

THE EXPENDITURE ... SHIP. How is the Climax brought out?

FOR THE HIGHTEST ... ATTAINED. Note the Grouping. Give
another example from this sentence.

Par. 4. NATIONS. What Inflection on this word? With what
is it contrasted?

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