One fool in a house is enough. 6. Put off your armor, and then show your courage. 7. A right choice is half the battle. 8. The fox-is very cunning; but he is more cunning, that catches him. 9. When a person is in fear, he is in no state for enjoyment. 10. When rogues fall out honest men get their due. 11. Reward—is certain to the faithful. 12. Deceit-shows a little mind. 83. Elocution or vocal delivery, relates Proverbs. 1. He who sows brambles must to the propriety of utterance, and is exhib-not go barefoot. 2. It is better to do well, than ited by a proper enunciation, inflection and to say well. 3. Look before you leap. 4. Notaemphasis; and signifies the manner of de-ing is so bad as not to be good for some-thing. 5. livery. It is divided into two parts; the correct, which respects the meaning of what is read or spoken; that is, such a clear and accurate pronunciation of the words, as will render them perfectly intelligible; and the rhetorical, which supposes feeling; whose object is fully to convey, and enforce, the entire sense, with all the variety, strength, and beauty, that taste and emotion demand. 84. The fourth sound of C is SH; after the accent, followed by ca, ia,ie eo, cou, and iou; O-CEAN; ju-di-cious Pho-ci-on, te-na-cious of his lus-cious spe-cies, ap-preci-ates his con-sci-en-tious as-so- [Cir CIA] ci-ate, who e-nun-ci-ates his sap-o-na-cious pre-science: a Gre-cian pro-fi-cient, with ca-pa-cious su-per-fi-cies and hal-cy-on pronun-ci-a-tion, de-pre-ci-ates the fe-ro-cious gla-ciers, and ra-pa-cious pro-vin-cial-isms of Cap-a-do-cia. $5. The business of training youth in Elocution, should begin in childhood, before the contraction of bad habits, and while the elraracter is in the rapid process of formation. The first school is the NURSERY: here, at 'east, may be formed a clear and distinct ariculation; which is the first requisite for good reading, speaking and singing: nor can ease and grace, in eloquence and music, be separated from ease and grace in private life, and in the social circle. tened attentively to a long, diffuse and high. tion." Our Persons. If our knowledge of the outlines, proportions, and symmetry of the human form, and of natural attitudes and appropriate gestures were as general as it ought to be, our exercises would be deter and purity of mind; the subject of clothing mined by considerations of health, grace would be studied in reference to its true out, and a tasteful adornment of the person; purposes-protection against what is withdecency would no longer be determined by day be at variance with personal comfort fashion, nor the approved costumes of the and ease of carriage; and in the place of fantastic figures, called fashionably dressed persons, moving in a constrained and artifi $6. Irregulars. S, t, and ch, in many cial manner, we would be arrayed in vestwords, are thus pronounced: the lus-cious ments adapted to our size, shape, and unduno-tion of Cham-pagne and prec-ious su-lating outline of form, and with drapery gar, in re-ver-sion for pa-tients, is suf-ficient for the ex-pul-sion of tran-sient ir-radon-al-i-ty from the ju-di-cial chev-a-liers of Mich-i-gan, in Chi-ca-go; (She-caw-go,) the nau-se-a-ting ra-ci-oc-i-na-tions of sen su-al char-la-tans to pro-pi-ti-ate the pas-never flatter the people; he will leave that sion-ate mar-chion-ess of Che-mung, are for those, who mean to betray them. 2. mi-nu-ti-a for ra-tion-al fis-ures to make Will dying for principles prove any thing E-gyp-tian op-ti-cians of." more than the sincerity of the martyr? 3. Which is the stronger passion, love, or an ger? 4. Public speakers ought to live longer, and enjoy better health, than others; and they will, if they speak right. 5. Mere imitation-is always fruitless; what We get from others, must be inborn in us, to produce the designed effects. 6. Times of general calamity, and revolution, have ever been productive of the greatest minds. 7. All mere external worship, in which the senses hear, and the mouth speaks, but in which the life is unconcerned, is perfectly dead, and profiteth nothing, Notes. 1. This aspirate diphthongal sound may be made, by prolonging the letters sh, in a whisper, show. See engraving. 2. Beware of prolonging this sound too much. 3. Exercise all the from the dorsal region; i. e. the small of the back; thus girding up the toins of the mind 4. If you do not feel refreshed and invigorated by these exercises, after an hour's practice, rest assured you are not 'n nature's path: if you meet with difficulty, be particular to in muscular, or fleshy parts of the body, and let your efforts be made form your teacher, who will point out the cause and the remedy. 5. C is silent in Czar, indict, Cne-us, Ctes-i-phon, science, muscle, ene, sceptre, &c.: S, do. in isle, vis-count, island, &c.: Ch, in chism, yacht, (yot,) drachm. True love's the gift, which God has given Pleasant the sun, flowing in graceful folds, adding to the elasticity of our steps, and to the varied movements of the whole body. Varieties. 1. The true statesman will Habitual evils-change not on a sudden; 1 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION 87. Good reading and speaking is music; and he who can sit unmoved by their much improves the voice, by giving it depth 90. As practicing on the gutterals very charms, is a stranger to correct taste, and of tone, and imparting to it smoothness and lost in insensibility. A single exhibition strength, I will repeat the following, with of natural eloquence, may kindle a love of force and energy, and at the same time conthe art, in the bosom of an aspiring youth, vert all the breath into sound: the dis-carwhich, in after life, will impel and ani- ded hands dread-ed the sounds of the muf mate him through a long career of useful-fled drums, that broke on the sad-den'd ness. Self-made men are the glory of the dream-er's ears, mad-dened by des-pair; the blood ebb'd and flow'd from their doub le dy'd shields, and worlds on words, and friends on friends by thousands roll'd. world. 88. D has two sounds; first, its name scund; DAME; dart, dawn, dab; deed, dead; die, did; dole, do, dog; duke, duck, druid; Proverbs. 1. An irritable and passionate doit, doubt; a dan-dy de-fraudman-is a downright drunkard. 2. Better go to ed his dad-dy of his sec-ondkeaven in rags, than to hell, in embroidery. 3. hand-ed sad-dle, and dubbed the [D in DO. ] Common sense-is the growth of all countries, had-dok a la-dy-bird; the doub-le head-ed it, but what life has made so. 5. Every vice but very rare. 4. Death has nothing terrible in pad-dy, nod-ding at noon-day, de-ter-mined fights against nature. 6. Folly-is never long to rid-dle ted-ded hay in the fields till dooms- pleased with itself. 7. Guilt-is always jealous. day; the dog-ged dry-ads ad-dict-ed to dep-8. He that shows his passion, tells his enemy re-da-tions, robbed the day-dawn of its dread-ed di-a-dem, and erred and strayed a good deal the down-ward road to ad-endum. caus where to hit him. 9. It is pride, not nature, that craves much. 10. Keep out of broils, and you will neither be a principal nor a witness. 11. Money-is a good servant, but a had master. 89. I must give all the sounds, particularly the final ones, with great care, and never run the words together, making one, out of three. Changes. We see that all material obAnd-is pronounced six different jects around us are changing; their colors ways; only one of which is right. Some change just as the particles are disturbed in call it an, or en; others, un, nd, or n; their relations. This result is not owing to and a few-and; thus good-an-bad en effect; loaves-en-fishes, hills-un groves; And are there not higher influences more poany natural cause, but to the Divine Power. pen un-ink, you-nd I, or youn-I; an-de- tent, tho' invisible, acting on man's moral said; hooks-en-eyes, wor-sen-worse, pleas- nature, pervading the deepest abysses of his ure-un-pain; cakes-n-beer, to-un-the; roun-affection, and the darkest recesses of his d'n-round, ol-d'n-young, voice-n-ear; bread-thoughts; to purify the one, and enlighten en butter; vir-tu-n-vice; Jame-zen-John: solem-un-sub-lime, up-'n-down, pies'-ncakes. I will avoid such glaring faults, and give to each letter its appropriate sound. Notes. 1. Here the delicate car may perceive the aspirate after the vocal part of d, as after b, and some other letters. The the other, and from the chaos of both-to why is it not changed? Shall we deny to educe order, beauty and happiness? And his moral nature, the powers and capacities is the Almighty less inclined to bring the which we assign to stocks and stones? Or, the harmony and blessedness of his own Dimost highly endowed of his creatures into vine Order? To affirm either would be the grossest reflection on the character of God, and the nature of his works. If man, then, be not changed, so as to reflect the likeness and image of his Creator and Redeemer, it must be in consequence of his own depraved will, and blinded understand ing. Varieties. 1. Why is the letter D like Books, (says Lord Bacon,) should have no a sailor? because it follows the C. 2. patrons, but truth and reason. lows not virtue in youth, cannot fly vice in old age. 4. Never buy-what you do not 3. Who folAnecdote. Blushing. A certain fash- article to you in the end. 5. Those-bear want, because it is cheap; it will be a dear ionable and dissipated youth, more famed disappointments the best, who have bee for his red nose, than for his wit, on ap most used to them. 6. Confidence-produces proaching a female, who was highly rouged, more conversation than either wit or talent. said; Miss; you blush from modesty." "Pardon me Sir,she replied, "I blushing-exists in vain, either in outward ce7. Attend well to all that is said; for noth. from reflection." Kindness-in woman, not their beauteous looks ation, in the mind, in the speech, or in the actions. Authors, before they write, should read. 91. Do not hurry your enunciation of] words, precipitating syllable over syllable, and word over word; nor melt them together into a mass of confusion, in pronouncing them; do not abridge or prolong them too much, nor swallow nor force them; but deliver them from your vocal and articulating organs, as golden coins from the mint, accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly and elegantly struck, distinct, in due succession, and of full weight. Proverbs. 1. None of you know where the shoe pinches. 2. One may live and learn. 3. Remember the reckoning. 4. Such as the tree is, such is the fruit. 5. The biggest horses are not the best travelers. 6. What cannot be cured, must be endured. 7. You cannot catch old birds with chaff. 8. Argument-seldom convinces any one, contrary to his inclinations. 9. A horse-is neither better, nor worse, for his trappings. 10. Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns &'l' it touches into gold. 11. Never sport, with the 92. The second sound of D, is that opinions of others. 12. Be prompt in every thing. of T; when at the end of words, Anecdote. President Harrison, in his last out-door exercise, was assisting the gardner in adjusting some grape-vines. The gardner remarked, that there would be but little use in trailing the vines, so far as any fruit was concerned; for the boys would come on Sunday, while the family was at church, and steal all the grapes; and suggested to the general, as a guard against such a loss, that he should purchase an active watch-dog. Said the general, "Better employ an active Sabbath-school teacher; a dog may take care teacher will take care of the grapes and the of the grapes, but a good Sabbath-school boys too." Home. Wherever we roam, in whatever climate or land we are cast, by the accidents of human life, beyond the mountains or beyond the ocean, in the legislative halls of the Capitol, or in the retreats and shades of private life, our hearts turn, with an irresistible instinct, to the cherished spot, which ushered us into existence. And we dwell, with delightful associations, on the recollection of the streams, in which, during our boyish days, we bathed, the fountains at which we drank, the piney fields, the hills and the valleys where we sported, and the friends, who shared these enjoyments with us. 93. To read and speak with ease, accuracy, and effect, are great accomplishments; as elegant and dignified as they are useful, and important. Many covet the art, but few are willing to make the necessary application: and this makes good readers and speakers, so very rare. Success depends, principally, on the student's own exertions, uniting correct theory with faithful practice. 94. Irregulars. T-generally has this sound; the lit-tle tat-ler tit-tered at the taste-ful tea-pot, and caught a tempt-ing tartar by his sa-ti-e-ty; the stout Ti-tan took a tell-tale ter-ma-gant and thrust her against the tot-ter-ing tow-ers, for twist-ing the frit-ters; Ti-tus takes the pet-u-lent out-casts, and tos-ses them into na-ture's pas-tures with the tur-tles; the guests of the hosts at-tract a great deal of at-ten-tion, and sub-sti-tute their pre-texts for tempests; the cov-et-ous part-ner, des-ti-tute of fort-une, states that when the steed is stol-lyzes the energies of the boldest mind, and en, he shuts the sta-ble door, lest the grav- When a twister, a twisting, will twist him a twist, Notes. 1. This dento-lingual sound may be made by hispering the imaginary word tuh, (short u) the tongue being cssed against the upper front teeth, and then suddenly removed, as indicated by the engraving. 2. 7 is silent when preceded by s, and followed by the abbreviated terminations en, le. Apostle, glisten, fasten, epistle, often, castle, pestle, soften, whistle, chasten, Dale, christen; in eclat, bil-let-doux, debut, haut-boy, currants, te-pot, hosfler, mortgage, Christmas, Tmolus, and the first t, in chest-nut and mis-fle-toe. 3. The adjectives, blessed, cursed, &c. Se'f-alone, in nature rooted fast, Varieties. 1. If we do well, shall we not be accepted? 2. A guilty conscience-para enfeebles the stoutest heart. 3. Persons in love, generally resolve-first, and reason af terward. 4. All contingencies have a Providence in them. 5. If these principles of Elocution be correct, practicing them as here taught, will not make one formal and ar tificial, but natural and effectuous. 6. Be above the opinion of the world, and act from your own sense of right and wrong. 7. All christians believe the soul of man to be immortal: if, then, the souls of all, who have departed out of the body from this world, are in the spiritual world, what millions of in habitants must exist therein ! The man, who consecrates his powers, peace. 95. Let the position be erect, and the body Proverbs. 1. Hope-1s & good breakfast, bl balanced on the foot upon which you stand: a bad supper. 2. It is right to put every thing to banish all care and anxiety from the mind; its proper use. 3. Open confession-is good for let the forehead be perfectly smooth, the the soul. 4. Pride-must have a fall. 5. The lungs entirely quiescent, and make every ef- lower mill-stone-grinds as well as the upper fort from the abdominal region. To expand one. 6. Venture not all in one vessel. 7. What the thorax and become straight, strike the one ardently desires, he easily believes. 8. YieldPALMS of the hands together before, and the ing-is sometimes the best way of succeeding. backs of them behind, turning the thumbs 9. A man that breaks his word, bids others bo upward: do all with a united action of the false to him. 10. Amendment—is repentance. 11. body and mind, the center of exertion being 12. The hand of the diligent-maketh rish. There is nothing useless to a person of sense in the small of the back; be in earnest, but husband your breath and strength; breathe often, and be perfectly free, easy, indepen dent, and natural. 96. F has two sounds: first, name sound: FIFE; off with the scarf from the calf's head; the af-fable but-foon, fuith-ful to its gaffer, lifts his wife's fa-ther from the cof-fin, and puts in the fret- [F in FIFE.] ful cuf-fy; fear-ful of the ef-fects, the frightful fel-low prof-fers his hand-ker-chief to fire off the dan-druff from the fit-ful fool's of-fensive fowl-ing-piece. Patience and Perseverance. Let any of a common engine to raise water. Let one consider, with attention, the structure him observe the intricacy of the machinery, and behold in what vast quantities one of the heaviest elements is forced out of its course; and then let him reflect how many experiments must have been tried in vain, how many obstacles overcome, before a frame of such wonderful variety in its parts, col have been successfully put together: afte: which consideration let him pursue his euterprise with hope of success, supporting the spirit of industry, by thinking how much may be done by patience and perseverance. 97. If you read and speak slow, and ar- Varieties. Was the last war with Engticulate well, you will always be heard with land-justifiable? 2. In every thing you attention; although your delivery, in other undertake, have some definite object in mind. respects, may be very faulty: and remem- 3. Persons of either sex-may captivate, by ber, that it is not necessary to speak very assuming a feigned character; but when the loud, in order to be understood, but very dis- deception is found out, disgrace and unhap tinctly, and, of course, deliberately. The piness will be the consequences of the fraud. sweeter, and more musical your voice is, the. All truths-are the forms of heavenly better, and the farther you may be heard, the more accurate will be your pronunciation, and with the more pleasure and profit will you be listened to. loves; and all falsities-are the forms of infernal loves. 5. While we co-operate with Nature, we cannot labor too much-for the development and perfection of body and mind; but when we force or contradict her, 98. Irregulars, Gh and Ph frequently have this sound; Phil-ip Brough, laugh'd so far from mending and improving "the enough at the phantoms of the her-maph-ro-human form divine," we actually degrade dite phi-los-o-phy, to make the nymph Saph- it below the brute. 6. How ridiculous some people make themselves appear, by giving their opinions for or against a thing, with which they are unacquainted! 7. The law of God is divine and eternal, and no person has a right to alter, add, or diminish, one word: it must speak for itself, and stand by itself. the ser i-ra have a phthis-i-cal hic-cough; Notes. 1. To make this dento-labial aspirate, press the under ip against the upper fore teeth, as seen in the engraving, and how out the first sound of the word fire! 2. Gh, are niet in drought, burrough, nigh, high, brought, dough, flight, etc.; an! Ph and h in phthis-i-cal. 3. The difficulty of applying les, to the pronunciation of our language, may be illustrated by the two following lines, where ough is pronounced in different was; as o, uff, off, ow, oo, and ock. Though the tough cough and cough plough me through, O'er life's dark lough my course I will pursue Anecdote. Natural Death. An old man, who had been a close observer all his life, when dangerously sick, was urged by his friends, to take advice of a quack; but objected, saying," I wish to die a natural death." The patient mind, by yielding-overcomes. Who needs a teacher-to admonish him, [mist? 99. He who attempts to make an inroad on the existing state of things, though evidently for the better, will find a few to encourage and assist him, in effecting a useful reform; and many who will treat his honest exertions with resentment and contempt, and cling to their old errors with a fonder pertinacity, the more vigorous is the effort to tear them from their arms. There is more hope of a fool, than of one wise in his own conceit. sicut Proverbs. 1. A good ca ise make heart, and a strong arm. 2. Better ten guilty persons escape, than one innocently suffer. 3 Criminals-are punished, that crime may be prevented. 4. Drunkenness--turns a man ont of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. 5. He that goes to church, with an evil intention, goes on the devil's errand. 6. Most things have handles; and a wise man takes hold of the best. 7. Our flatterers-are our most dangerous ener:ies, yet they are often in our own bosom. 8. Pover 100. The second sound of F, is that ty-makes a man acquainted with strange bed of V: OF; (never off, nor uv;) there-of here-of, where-of; the only words in our language, in which F, has this sound: c piece of cake, not a piece-u cake, nor a piece-ur-cake. terests. [F in OF. ] | fellows. 9. Make yourself all honey, and the flies will be sure to devour you. 10. Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools. 11. A stitch in time-saves nine. 12. The idle man's head, iş the devil's workshop. Anecdote. School master and pupil. A 101. Muscle Breakers. Thou waft'd'st school master-asked a boy, one very cold the rickety skiff over the mountain height winter morning, what was the Latin-for cliffs, and clearly saw'st the full orb'd moon, the word cold: at which the boy hesitated, in whose silvery and effulgent light, thou saying, I have it at my finger's ends. reef'd'st the haggled sails of the ship-wrecked vessel, on the rock-bound coast of Kam- Ourselves and Others. That manscat-ka. He was an unamiable, disrespect- deserves the thanks of his country, who conful, incommunicative, disingenuous, formi- nects with his own-the good of others. dable, unmanageable, intolerable and pusi- The philosopher-enlightens the WORLD; lanimous old bachelor. Get the latest the manufacturer-employs the needy; and amended edition of Charles Smith's Thu- the merchant-gratifies the rich, by procu cyd-i-des, and study the colonist's best in-ring the varieties of every clime. The miser, altho' he may be no burden on society, 102. Irregulars. V has this vocal aspi- yet, thinking only of himself, affords no one rate; also Phin a few words; my vain neph-else-either profit, or pleasure. As it is not ew, Ste-phen Van-de-ver, be-lieves Ve-nus of any one-to have a very large share of a ves-tal vir-gin, who viv-i-fies his shiv-ered liv-er, and im-proves his vel-vet voice, happiness, that man will, of course, have the so as to speak with viv-id viv-ac-i-ty; the largest portion, who makes himself—a part brave chev-a-lier be-haves like a vol-a-tile ner in the happiness of others. The BENEV con-ser-va-tive, and says, he loves white OLENT-are sharers in every one's joys. wine vin-e-gar with veal vict-uals every warm day in the vo-cal vales of Vu-co-var." 103. FAULTS in articulation, early contracted, are suffered to gain strength by habat, and grow so inveterate by time, as to be almost incurable. Hence, parents should assist their children to pronounce correctly, in their first attempts to speak, instead of permitting them to pronounce in a faulty manner: but soine, so far from endeavoring to correct them, encourage them to go on in their baby talk; thus cultivating a vicious mode of articulation. Has wisdom fled from men; or was she driven away? Varieties. 1. Ought not the study of car language be made part of our education? 2. He who is slowest in making a promise, is generally the most faithful in performing it. 3. They who are governed by reason, need no other motive than the goodness of a thing, to induce them to practice it. 4. A reading people-will become a thinking people; and then they are capable of becoming a rational and a great people. 5. The happiness of every one-depends more on the state of his own mind, than on any external circum stance; nay, more than all external things put together. 6. There is no one so despicawith the addition of a voice sound in the larynx: see engraving. 2ble, but may be able, in some way, and at some time, to revenge our impositions. 7 Desire-seeks an end: the nature of the de sire, love and life, may be known by its end When lowly Merit--feels misfortune's blow, And seeks relief from penury and wo, Hope fills with rapture-every generous heart, To share its treasures, and its hopes impart ; As, rising o'er the sordid lust of gold, It shows the impress-of a heavenly mould! Notes. 1. This diphthongal sound, is made like that of f, A modification of this sound, with the upper lip over-lapping the unJer one, and blowing down on the chin, gives a very good imitation of the humble-bee. 3. Avoid saying gim me some, for give me some; I haint got any, for I have not got any; I don't luff to go; for, I don't love, (like rather,) to go; you'll haff to do it; for you will have to do it. What is a man, f his chief good and market of his time, Sure, Whose nature is so far from doing harnı |