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EXERCISES.

EXERCISE I.

REPLY OF MR. PITT,
(The late Earl of Chatham.)

7 THE a trocious | man, |7 which the with such spirit and me, || 7. I shall | neither de | ny; || 1 but content that I may be one of | cease with their | youth; number | 7 who are | ignorant | 7 in | spite of ex | perience. ||

crime | 1 of being a young
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attempt to | palliate, | nor
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those | 1 whose | follies
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Whether youth | 7 can be imputed to any man 1 as a reproach, | 7 I will not assume | 7 the province of determining: || 7 but | surely, | age may become | justly contemptible, || if the opportunities 7 which it | brings | 7 have passed a way 7 with out improvement, | 7 and | vice | 7 ap | pears to pre | vail | 7 when the | passions | 7 have subsided. ||| 7 The | wretch | 1 that, | after having seen the consequences | 7 of a thousand | errors, | 7 continues | still to | blunder, || 7 and whose age 7 has | only | added | obstinacy | 7 to stupidity, | 7 is ❘ surely the object | 1 of | either abhorrence 7 or contempt; || 7 and de | serves 1 not | 7 that his grey | head | 7 should se | cure him

from insults. Much more | 7 is | he to be ab | horred who, as he has advanced in | age, | 7 has receded from | virtue, | 7 and be | comes | more | wicked 7 with less temptation: || 7 who | prostitutes himself for money | 7 which he cannot en | joy, 7 and spends the remains of his life | 7 in the ruin of his | country. ||| 7 But

youth | 7 is not my | only | crime. || | I have been accused | 7 of | acting a theatrical | part. |||

1 A theatrical | part, | may | either im | ply | some peculiarities of | gesture, | 7 or a | dissimu lation of my real | sentiments, | 7 and an a doption of the opinions and | language | 1 of an | other man. 11

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7 In the first sense, | 7 the | charge is too | trifling to be con futed: || 7 and de | serves | only to be mentioned, || that it I am at liberty | 7 (like man) 7 to use my own language: | 7 and | though I may 7 per | haps, | 7 have some 7 am

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bition, yet, to | please | this gentleman, I shall not lay myself | 7 under any restraint, | 7 or very solicitously copy | his diction, | 1 or his | mien; | 7 how | ever | 7 ma | tured by | age, | 7 or | modelled by ex | perience. ||| 7 If | any man | | shall, | 7 by | charging me | 7 with the | atrical be | havior, 7 imply | 7 that I | utter | any sentiments but my own, | 7 I shall treat | him as a ca | umniator | 7 and a | villain: || nor shall | any pro | tection shelter him | 7 from the ❘ treatment | which he deserves. || 7 | shall, | 7 on | such an oc |

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casion, 7 with out | scruple | trample upon | all | those forms | 7 with which | wealth and dignity | 7 en trench themselves; || nor shall | any thing | but | age | 1 re strain my resentment: | | age, | 1 which always | brings | one | privilege; || that | 7 of being insolent | 7 and | super | cilious | 7 with | out | punishment. |||

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But with regard to those whom I have of | fended, I am ofo | pinion | 7 that | if I had acted a | borrowed | part, | I should have a | voided their | censure. ||| 7 The | heat that of | fended them | 7 is the ardor of conviction, | 7 and that | zeal for the service of my country, | 1 which | neither | | hope, 1 nor | fear, | 7 shall | influence me | 7 to 1 suppress. ||| 7 I will not | sit | uncon | cerned | while my liberty | 7 is in | vaded: | 7 nor | look in | silence upon | public | robbery. ||| I will ex | ert my endeavors | 7 (at what | ever | hazard) | 7 to repel the aggressor, | 7 and | drag the | thief to | justice, || what | power | so | ever | 7 may pro tect the villainy, | 7 and | who | ever | 7 may par | take 7 of the plunder. |||

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EXERCISE II.

ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA.

Acts xxvi. 1.

THEN A grippa | said unto | Paul, || Thou art permitted to speak for thy | self. ||| Then | Paul

stretched forth the | hand, | 7 and | answered | 1 for him | self. |||

7 I think myself | happy, || King A | grippa, | 7 because I shall | answer for my | self | this | day | | 7 before thee, touching | all the | things | 7 where of 7 I am ac | cused | 1 of the | Jews: || 1 especially be | cause I know thee | 7 to be ex pert in all customs | 7 and questions | 7 which I | are among the Jews: | | wherefore | 7 I be | seech thee | 7 to hear me | patiently. |||

7 My manner of | life | 7 from my │youth, || which was at the | first | 7 a | mong mine | own | nation at Jerusalem, | know | all the Jews; || 1 which knew me | from the beginning, | if they would | testify; | 7 that | after the most | straitest | sect | 7 of our religion | 7 I | lived a | Pharisee. |||

7 And now | 1 I | stand. | 7 and am | judged | 1 for the hope of the | promise | made of | God | unto our | fathers: || 7 unto | which promise | 7 our | twelve tribes, | instantly | serving | God | day and night, hope to come. ||| 7 For | which | hope's | sake, | King A | grippa, || I am ac | cused | 7 of the | Jews. ||| Why should it be thought | 7 a | thing incredible | 1 with | you, | 7 that | God | 1 should raise the dead? | ||I| verily | thought with my | self, 7 that I ought to do many things | contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ||1 1 Which | thing | 1 I | also | did | 7 in Je | rusalem: 7 and many of the saints | 7 did I shut up in | prison, having received authority | 7 from the chief priests; || and | when they were put to death, | 71 | gave | my voice | 7 against

them. | | 7 And I | punished them | 7 oft | 7 in every synagogue, | 7 and compelled them 7 to blaspheme; || 7 and | being exceedingly | mad against them, | 7 I persecuted them | even unto | strange cities. ||| Whereup | on as I went to Da mascus, || 7 with au | thority, | 7 and commission | 7 from the chief | priests, | 7 at mid | day, | 0 | king, 7 I saw in the | way | 7 a | light from | hea| ven, | 7 above the brightness | 7 of the | sun, || shining | round a | bout | me, | 7 and them which | journeyed with me. ||| 7 And | when we were | all | fallen to the earth, │7 I | heard a | voice | speaking unto me, | 7 and | saying | 7 in the | Hebrew | tongue, || Saul, || Saul, || why | persecutest thou | me? || 7 it is hard | for thee | 7 to | kick against the pricks. |||7 And I | said, | Who | art thou, | Lord? ||| 7 And he | said, | 7 I am | Jesus, || whom thou | persecutest. | || 7 But | rise | 1 and | stand upon thy feet; || 7 for | I have appeared unto 1 thee 7 for this purpose, | 7 to | make thee a | witness || both of

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| which thou hast | 7 in the which 7 I will appear unto thee; || T delivering thee | 7 from the | people, and from the Gentiles, 7 unto | whom | now I send thee; | 7 to open their eyes, 1 and to turn them | 7 from darkness | 7 to light, | 7 and from the power of | Satan | 7 unto | God; || 7 that they may re | ceive | 7 forgiveness of | sins, | 7 and in | heritance | 7 among them which are sanctified, | 7 by | faith | 7 that is in | me. ||| Whereup | on, | O | king Agrippa, || I was not disobedient | 7 unto the

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