NOTE 2. Affirmative and negative sentences are sometimes made to do the office of interrogatives, by uttering them with the circumflex on the words requiring the superior emphasis, and the rising inflec. tion on such words as take the inferior emphasis, thus raising the expectation of an affirmative or negative answer.

EXAMPLES.

1. Your son will surely go to cŎLLEGE next week. 2. You will visit BŏSTON before you return.

3. The doctor did not think him DANGEROUSLY ill. 4. Their children were not left ENTIRELY alóne.

5. Your brother had cŎMPANY on his tour.

6. I suppose your SCHOOL is to commence in a few days.

EXERCISE I.

Indirect Questions without their Answers.

1. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declàre, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measure thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched out the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof? 2. Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the battles of heaven? Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the spàn, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scàles, and the hills in a bàlance?

3. What are our joys, but dreams? And what our hopes, but goodly shadows in the summer clouds? Where are the heroes of ages past? Where, the brave chieftains? Where, the mighty ones who flourished in the infancy of days?

QUESTION.

How are affirmative and negative sentences made to do the office of interrogatives? Give an example.

4. What things are most proper for youth to learn? Why is our experience, with regard to the misfortunes of others, of so little use to ourselves? Why is it, that we are to learn wisdom and prudence at our own expense? Who will accuse me of wandering from the subject? Who will say I exaggerate the tendency of our measures?

5. Who continually supports and governs this stupendous system? Who preserves ten thousand times ten thousand worlds in perpetual harmony? Who enables them always to observe such times, and obey such laws, as are adapted to the perfection of this wondrous system? What can be more important than an inquiry into the moral government of God?

EXERCISE II.

Indirect Questions without their Answers.

1. Who are the persons most apt to fall into peèvishness and dejèction? What are the scenes of nature which most elevate the mind? What objects are most sublime! What heightens the idea of grandeur? What shadow can be more vain than the life of a great part of mankind? How few can we find whose activity has not been misemployed?

2. Where now is the splendid robe of the cònsulate? Where are the brilliant tòrches? Where are the applauses and dances, the feasts and entertainments? Where are the coronets and canopies? Where the huzzas of the city, the 30mpliments of the circus, and the flattering acclamations of the spectators!

3. Who can describe, who, delineate, the cheering, the enlivening rày? who, the looks of lòve? who, the soft, benignant vibrations of the benevolent eyè? who, the twilight, the day of hope? who, the internal efforts of the mind, wrapt in

gentleness and humility, to effect good, to diminish evil, and increase present and eternal hàppiness?

When we are

4. Where shouldst thou look for kindness? sick, where can we turn for sùccor? When we are wretched, where can we complain? When the world looks cold and surly on us, where can we go to meet a warmer eye, with such sure confidence as to a mòther? The world may scowl, acquaintances forsake, friends may neglect, and lovers know a change; but when a mòther doth forsake her child, men lift up their hands, and cry out, "A PRODIGY!"

5. We might ask the patrons of infidelity, what fury impels them to attempt the subversion of Christianity? To what virtues are their principles fàvorable? Above all, what are the pretensions on which they rest their claims to be the guides of mankind?

6. Where are the infidels of such pure, uncontaminated morals, unshaken probity, and extended benevolence, that we should be in no danger of being seduced into impiety by their example? Into what obscure recesses of misery, into what dungeons have their philanthropists penetrated, to lighten the fetters and relieve the sorrows of the helpless captive? What barbarous tribes have their apostles visited? What distant climes have they explored, encompassed with cold, nakedness and want, to diffuse principles of virtue, and the blessings of civilization?

7. Oh, wind! where is thy home

Thy resting-place?

Where dost thou plume thy wings to roam
In pathless fields of space?

8. Whence comest thou with thy songs,
That glad the carth,

And call her myriad infant throngs
Of beauty into birth?

9. Whence is thy strength, that bows

The forests down,

And dashes from the mountain's brows

The ancient, emerald crown?

10. Whence thy tremendous power,

That crests the waves,

And heaves them, shouting, on the sounding shore,
Or marble caves?

EXERCISE III.

NORTHERN LABORERS.

C. C. NAYLOR.

Indirect Questions with their Answers.

1. But, sir, the gentleman has misconceived the spirit and tendency of northern institutions. He is ignorant of northern character. He has forgotten the history of his country. Preach insurrection to the northern labórers! Preach insurrection to me! Who are the northern laborers? The history of your country is their history. The renown of your country is their renown. The brightness of their doings is emblazoned on its every page. Blot from your annals the deeds and doings of northern laborers, and the history of your country presents but a universal blank.

2. Sir, who was he that disarmed the Thunderer; wrested from his grasp the bolts of Jòve; a calmed the troubled òcean; became the central sun of the philosophical system of his age, shedding his brightness and effulgence on the whole civilized world; whom the great and mighty of the earth delighted to honor; who participated in the achievement of your independence; prominently assisted in molding your free institutions, and the beneficial effects of whose wisdom will be felt to the Jove, another name for Jupiter, a heathen god.

last moment of "recorded time?" Who, sir, I ask, was hè? A northern laborer,— a yankee tallow-chandler's sòn,a. a printer's runaway boy!

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3. And who, let me ask the honorable gentleman, who was he that, in the days of our Revolution, led forth a northern army, yes, an army of northern làborers, and aided the chivalry of South Carolina in their defense against British aggrèssion, drove the spoilers from their firesides, and redeemed her fair fields from foreign invaders? Who was hè? A northern laborer, a Rhode Island blacksmith, the gallant General Greene,b who left his hammer and his forge, and went forth conquering, and to conquer, in the battle for our independence! And will you preach insurrection to men like thése?

4. Sir, our country is full of the achievements of northern laborers. Where is Còncord, and Lexington, and Princeton, and Trenton, and Saratoga, and Bunker Hill, but in the north? And what, sir, has shed an imperishable renown on the neverdying names of those hallowed spots, but the blood and the struggles, the high daring, and patriotism, and sublime courage, of northern laborers? The whole north is an everlasting monument of the freedom, virtue, intelligence, and indomitable independence of northern làborers! Go, sir, go preach insurrection to men like thèse !

5. The fortitude of the men of the north, under intense suffering for liberty's sake, has been almost God-like! History has so recorded it. Who comprised that gallant army, that, without food, without pay, shelterless, shoeless, penniless, and almost naked, in that dreadful winter, the midnight of our Revolution, whose wanderings could be traced by their blood-tracks in the snow; whom no arts could seduce, no appeal lead astray, no sufferings disaffect; but who, true to their country, and its holy

A yankee tallow-chandler's son,- Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Greene, an Americau general in the Revolution.