Seven Syllables, pronounced as Six, and accented on the Fifth Syllable.

ex-com-mu-ni-ca-tion rec-on-cil-i-a-tion

Expand the blooming soul! What pity then
Should Sloth's unkindly fogs depress to earth
Her tender blossom; choke the streams of life,
And blast her spring! Far otherwise design'd
Almighty wisdom, nature's happy cares
The obedient heart far otherwise incline:
Witness the sprightly joy when aught unknown
Strikes the quick sense, and wakes each active
power

To brisker measures: witness the neglect
Of all familiar prospects, though beheld
With transport once; the fond attentive gaze
Of young astonishment; the sober zeal
Of age, commenting on prodigious things,
For such the bounteous providence of Heaven,
In ev'ry breast implanting this desire
Of objects new and strange, to urge us on
With unremitted labour to pursue

Those sacred stores that wait the ripening soul,
In all-prevailing Truth's exhaustless bosom.

Akenside.

It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen, who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came

Seven and Eight Syllables, with each Word properly accented.

im-par-i-syl-lab"-i-cal

lat-i-tu-di-na"-ri-an

im-pen-e-tra-bil"-i-ty me-te-or-o-log"-i-cal

in-com-pat-i-bil"-i-ty per-pen-dic-u-lar-i-ty

in-com-pre-hen-si-bil"-i-ty plen-i-po-ten"-ti-a-ry in-con-sid"-er-a-ble-ness un-par-li-a-men"-ta-ry in-cor-rup-ti-bil"-i-ty val-e-tu-di-na"-ri-an

where they sat. The good man bustled through the crowd accordingly; but when he came to the seats to which he was invited, the jest was to sit closely and expose him, as he stood out of countenance, to the whole audience. The frolic went round all the Athenian benches. But on those occasions, there were also particular places assigned for foreigners: when the good man retired towards the boxes appointed for the Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man; and, with the greatest respect, received him among them. The Athenians, being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause; and the old man cried out: "The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it."

Addison.

One of the most useful and important of machines is the steam-engine, which consists of a large cylinder in which is fitted a solid piston: the steam being supplied from a large boiler forces up the piston, and a valve is instantly opened, through which cold water rushes, condenses the steam, and causes the piston to descend by its own weight. It would be almost impossible in a small space to enumerate the various purposes to which steam is now applied:

but we may with truth affirm, that we know of no invention whose history is more interesting than that of the application of steam to useful purposes, especially in its subserviency to utility in the steam-engine. Feeble and imperfect in its first beginnings, and limited, for a considerable time after its introduction, to a single and by no means an important object, it became, in the hands of Watt, an instrument of universal application. It is now equally auxiliary to the purposes which require the greatest delicacy of manipulation and those which demand the most intense exertions of power. Its introduction and gradual improvement have put in action talents of the highest order: it has already changed the state of the world, and altered the relations of civilized society; and in its further progress it seems destined to perform even more important services to art and science.