and a little folding of your arms,

and a short passing space of languid procrastination,

the present auspicious occasion

will have DISAPPEARED,

and the dominion of BIGOTRY

and DESPOTISM

will come, in all its might,

in all its might, upon our slumberings,

[majority of nineteen,

that if we carried up the Bill, on a former occasion, by a

and it failed in the house of Peers,

there is ten thousand fold the necessity

[conclusion,

for taking this last opportunity of bringing the question to a

because an event may happen,

when you will have no longer

the option;

when even if the Bill should be carried

not by a majority of nineteen, or twenty seven,

but by a unanimous vote - of both houses of Parliament,

In the following magnificent defense of his conduct by Demosthenes, we mark many of the questions with falling slides, to indicate the triumphant tone with which they should be put. A powerful effect is also produced by intensive emphases.

Was he not to make Baotia our barrier on the midland side?—

[ter?

the cities bordering on Peloponnesus our bulwark on that quar

[tion of corn, Was he not to attend, with due precaution, to the importa

that this trade might be protected, through all its progress, up to our very harbor?

[seasonable detachmentsWas he not to cover those districts which we commanded, by

and to supply those in which our country

And all this you gained

to act the same part which I supported in this city ;

in PERFECT TRANQUILLITY,

SECURITY, and HAPPINESS,

uncontrolled, in their several dominions, by any foreign power,

and filled with gratitude to you and to your state,

the authors of these blessings so extensive and so precious.

And all this by my means.

DEMOSTHENES.

2. a. IMPASSIONED EXPLANATORY AFFIRMATION.

This differs from the preceding, in the employment of waves, and in the earnest long quantity which they require.

The following extract from an argument before a jury, will readily suggest the peculiarly powerful declamation which constitutes this style.

answerable for the act of his servant or agent ;

and accident or neglect

can therefore be no answer

to a plaintiff - complaining of a consequential wrong.

If a driver of a public carriage

maliciously overturns another, upon the road,

[distance,

whilst the proprietor is asleep in his bed, at a hundred miles

the party injuring