and a judgment of intuitive shrewdness as to
the best outlet from perplexed and often baffling situations. He had,
in its highest and best development, the genius of common sense. These
rare gifts of practical efficiency were, during the whole of his
Kingship, yoked to the service of a great ideal. He was animated every
day of his Sovereignty by the thought that he was at once the head and
the chief servant of that vast complex organism which we call the
British Empire. He recognized in the fullest degree both the powers
and the limitations of a Constitutional Monarch. Here, at home, he
was, though no politician, as every one knows, a keen Social Reformer.
He loved his people at home and over the seas. Their interests were
his interests; their fame was his fame. He had no self apart from
them.

I will not touch for more than a moment on more delicate and sacred
ground--on his personal charm, the warmth and wealth of his humanity;
his unfailing considerateness for all who in any capacity were
permitted to work for him. I will only say, in this connection that no
man in our time has been more justly beloved by his family and his
friends, and no Ruler in our or in any time has been more sincerely
true, more unswervingly loyal, more uniformly kind to his advisers and
his servants. By the unsearchable counsels of the Disposer of Events
he has been called suddenly, and without warning, to his account. We
are still dazed under the blow which has befallen us. It is too soon,
as yet, even to attempt to realize its full meaning, but this, at
least, we may say at once and with full assurance, that he has left to
his people a memory and an example which they will never forget, a
memory of great opportunities greatly employed, and an example which
the humblest of his subjects may treasure and strive to follow, of
simplicity, courage, self-denial, tenacious devotion up to the last
moment of conscious life to work, to duty, and to service.

--_The Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith_

WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES ... ENJOYED. Make an analysis of
this sentence with a view to Perspective. (Introduction,
p. 33.)

DETACHED ... INTERESTS. Note the contrasts and indicate
the Inflection on each.

TEMPTED, ... CONSTRAINED. What difference in Emphasis?
(Introduction, p. 31.) Compare SINGULAR, PERHAPS
UNRIVALLED; IN OUR OR IN ANY TIME.

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