Exclamation.- Gratitude. [Inflection as before.] "Father of mercies, in thy word "Here may the wretched sons of want "Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into sìnging, ye mòuntains, O fòrest, and every trèe therein for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glòrified himself in Israel!" Scorn. Extract from Isaiah XLIV. V. 9. " They that make a graven image are all of them vànity; and their delectable things shall not pròfit; and they are their own witnesses they see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed. 10. Who hath formed a gòd, or molten a graven image, that is profitable for nothing? 11. Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of mèn: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hàmmers, and worketh it with the strength of his àrms: yea, he is hùngry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13. The carpenter stretcheth out his rùle: he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it out with planes, and he marketh it out with a còmpass, and maketh it af ter the figure of a màn, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14. Hecheweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the òak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an òak, and the rain doth nourish it. 15. Then shall it be for a man to bùrn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a gòd, and wòrshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16. He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is sàtisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Ahà! I am wàrm, I have seen the fire: 17. And the residue thereof he maketh a gòd, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my gòd. 18. They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes that they cannot and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have bùrned part of it in the fire; yea, also, I have baked bread upon the còals thereof; I have roasted flèsh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abominátion? shall I fall down to the stock of a trée? 20. He feedeth on àshes: a deceived heart hath turned him asìde, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" see; Contrasted Interrogation. [Inflections exemplifying both Slides.] · "And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of Gód? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" *Downward slide of emphatic expression. Moderate Inflection.* [Rising Inflection, or Upward Slide.] Unempassioned or Unemphatic Interrogation. "Have ye understood all these things?" Knów ye what I have done to you?" "Is it well with thée? Is it well with thy húsband? Is it well with the child?" Suspended, or Incomplete sense. "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olivetree; boast not against the branches." "Inconstant service we repay, And treacherous vóws renew, As false as morning's scattering cloud, [Falling Inflection, or Downward Slide.] "All things are lawful unto me; but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the dominion of any." "Render therefore to all their dùes: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom cùstom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom hònor. "Having, then, gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith: or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation; he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." * Upward or Downward "Concrete," or slide, of a "Third." "Great God, thy penetrating eye [Inflections exemplifying both Slides.] Correspondence and Contrast. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."* "Now if we be déad with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him." "For if we have been planted together in the likeness. of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrèction." "To be carnally minded is déath; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." "We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wìse in Christ; we are weak, but ye are stròng; ye are hónorable, but we are despised." "Now to him that wórketh, is the reward not reckoned of gráce, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." "Oh! may his lóve― immòrtal fláme!— Tune every heart and tongue!" * The common error, in contrasts, is that of a double slide, or circum flex, instead of the single upward or downward transit. † These extend no farther on the scale than the interval of a "Second," a single tone, or the space occupied by the transit of the voice from one note to the next above or below, Pathetic expression reduces them to the "semitone." Poetic Effect.* "Nor áir, nor éarth, nor skies, nor séas, "Eternal Wisdom, thee we praise, Thee all thy creatures sing; While with thy name, rocks, hills, and séas, "Thy glories blaze all nature round, Through skies, and séas, and solid ground, "Foolish fears, and fond desires, These, and every secret fault, Filled with grief and shame, we own." "Monotone."t Sublimity and Awe. Extract from Revelation XX. V. 11. “And I saw a great white thrōne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled * Verse, and even poetic prose, require the comparatively melodious effect of the "slight" inflection, in unemphatic "series" or sequences, of words and clauses which are comprehended under one and the same rule of syntax. † Rigorous analysis may enable an attentive ear to detect the "Second," in the "monotone," so called. But the characteristic effect on the ear, by the recurrence of the same note, is that of strict monotone or sameness of sound,—as in the successive sounds of a bell, compared with those of any other instrument of music. |