attend. When he comes to read, after having gone through his practice on the elements, he must endeavor to find the exact meaning of each sentence. This is what we call attending to the Analysis of speech.

Some persons of course will be able to do this a great deal easier than others. Every body must, however, learn to do it as well as he can. It will not be possible to give any rules by which it may be done without attention. The only rule we can give is, to think about it.

A few examples and remarks will perhaps be of use in showing a little, how we are to think in order to find out this point.

First, we are to see which are the emphatic parts, and which the unemphatic. Those words and parts of the sentences which are most important, are to be made emphatic by the use of some one or other of the elements of expression, according to the kind of meaning which they ought to have. Those parts, which are, for any reason, of less consequence, are to be unemphatic.

"They brought to the PHARISEES him that aforelime was blind. And it was the SABBATHDAY when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. Then again the PHARISEES also asked him how he had received sight. He said unto THEM, he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.' John ix. 13, 14, 15.

In this example, the first important part is the word 'Pharisees.' We had been told before in the chapter that the people had been wondering at the cure of the blind man, and inquiring of him about it. We now

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hear, that they brought him to the Pharisees. This. word then is emphatic. The words which follow are of no importance at all. The verse might just as well have been 'they brought him to the Pharisees' as 'they brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.' All these words are, in fact, no more than a kind of name for the man of whom we have heard so much already, and whose circumstances we all know so well. Of course these words are to be slurred. The second sentence gives a new piece of information, all this happened on the SABBATH-DAY.' The word 'sabbathday,' is therefore to be emphatic, but all the following words when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes,' are to be slurred, because, as we know from what came before, what it was Jesus had been doing, we do not want to have it told again as important news. 'The PHARISEES then asked him the old question.' 'Pharisees' is emphatic; all the words which are used to express the question we had been hearing before, are to be slurred. 'He told THEM his story.' Here 'them' is to be emphasized because it is important. The story, as it has been given before in the chapter, is of no importance, and must be lightly passed

over.

In the same way we may mark out the emphatic parts, and those which should be slurred in the following examples.

But the Jews did not BELIEVE concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the PARENTS of him that had received his sight.'

'And they CAST him OUT. JESUS HEARD

that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, DOST thou BELIEVE on the Son of God? He answered and said, who is he, Lord, that I MIGHT believe on him?'

Art THOU GREATER than our father JACOB, who GAVE us the well, and drank thereof, himself and his children, and his cattle?

Sometimes the slurred part is not really unimportant, the only reason for passing lightly over it, being that we want to give great prominence to some other part. 'What IS it, you must, in that event, submit to the people?'

'The smoothness of flattery cannot NOW AVAIL, cannot SAVE us in this rugged and awful crisis.' What PROFIT hath a man of all his labor, he taketh under the sun?'

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Wherever we have to connect together, in meaning, words which are placed away from one another in a sentence, we must slur the words which come between them. Thus:

They FOUGHT (like brave men,) LONG and WELL.'

'Soon after this short repose, Argyle was BROUGHT, (according to order), to the LAIGH COUNCIL HOUSE, (from which place is dated the letter to his wife), and from THENCE to the PLACE of EXECUTION. On the scaffold, he had some discourse, as well with MR. ANNAND, (a minister appointed by government to attend him), as with MR. CHATERIS.'

'After dinner, he RETIRED, (as was his custom,) to his BED-CHAMBER, WHERE, (it is recorded,) he SLEPT QUIETLY for about a quarter of an hour.'

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the QUEEN of FRANCE, (then the Dauphiness) at VERSAILLES.'

'He REFUSED, (saying,) NO, NO, that will not

HELP me.'

'The MISERABLE INHABITANTS, (flying from their flaming villages,) IN PART were slaughtered.'

Ay, and that TONGUE of his, (that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books.) ALAS! (it cried) GIVE me some DRINK, Titinius, As a SICK GIRL.'

It is of very great importance, that the slurred and emphatic parts of a sentence be thus always clearly marked out in the mind of the reader. It is not possible for any one to read correctly without doing it. In many of the sentences given above as examples, it would altogether destroy the sense, if we should neglect either to emphasize strongly the prominent parts, or to slur over the unimportant ones. This will be seen at once, by reading the following sentences without employing any slur of the voice.

Argyle was brought, according to order, to the Laigh Council House, from which place is dated the letter to his wife, and from thence to the place of execution.'

'After dinner he retired, as was his custom, to his bed-chamber, where it is recorded, he slept quietly for about a quarter of an hour.'

- since I saw the queen of France, then the Dauphiness at Versailles.'

'He refused saying, No, no, that will not help me.'

These readings would make it appear that Argyle wrote a letter from the Laigh Council House to his wife, and from her to the place of execution; that his having had a quarter of an hour's sleep was recorded in his bed chamber; that the Queen of France was Dauphiness at Versailles, and of course no where else; and that the man who is last spoken of refused to say No, no, &c. If, in any of the other sentences given, these slurred parts be read as if they were important, the pupil will soon see how much the meaning is injured by it in them also.

And they CAST him OUT. JESUS HEARD that they had CAST him OUT, &c.'·

After we have fixed upon the emphatic and slurred parts of every sentence, the next thing to be observed is the kind of feeling with which it should be read. It will not do to read every sentence in the same humdrum way, as is commonly done in schools.

Some things are to be read lightly, in the way in which we should tell a story.

'On the side of the victors almost sixty thousand men had been engaged, and more than one-fourth were left on the field. The number of the vanquished, and the amount of their loss are unknown. By the vanity of the Norman historians the English army has been exaggerated beyond the limits of credibility: by that of