tries to steal a pitiful justification from whispered accusations and fabricated rumors no, my Lords, that is no State Necessity! Tear off the mask, and you see coarse, vulgar avarice lurking under the disguise. "The State Necessity of Mr. Hastings is a juggle. It is a being that prowls in the dark. It is to be traced in the ravages which it commits, but never in benefits conferred or evils prevented. I can conceive justifiable occasions for the exercise even of outrage, where high public interests demand the sacrifice of private right. If any great man, in bearing the arms of his country-if any admiral, carrying the vengeance and the glory of Britain to distant coasts, should be driven to some rash acts of violence, in order, perhaps, to give food to those who are shedding their blood for their country there is a State Necessity in such a case, grand, magnanimous, and all-commanding, which goes hand in hand with honor. "If any great general, defending some fortress, barren, perhaps, itself, but a pledge of the pride and power of Britain -if such a man, fixed like an imperial eagle on the summit of a rock, should strip its sides of the verdure and foliage with which it might be clothed, while covered on the top with that cloud from which he was pouring down his thunders on the foe-would he be brought by the House of Commons to your bar? No, my Lords, never would his grateful and admiring countrymen think of questioning actions which, though accompanied by private wrong, yet were warranted by real necessity. But is the State Necessity which is pleaded by the prisoner, in defence of his conduct, of this description? I challenge him to produce a single instance in which any of his private acts were productive of public advantage, or averted impending evil.” 101. SUSTAINED FORCE. In addressing large assemblies, and in calling and commanding, the Full Force is sustained for some moments, according to the size of the audience, or distance to which the voice is to be heard. 102. Examples: SPEAKING TO GREAT NUMBERS. Fellow Citizens: It—is - no ordinary - cause as Ship, ahoy! Send-a-boat! And lo! from the assembled crowd That to the ocean seemed to say, EXERCISES IN FORCE.' Determine and apply the appropriate force in each of the following selections: 1. แ Speak softly! All's hushed as midnight." 2. "Oh! I have passed a miserable night.” 3. "Stand! the ground's your own, my braves; 4. "Now, men! now is your time!" 5. Up the hillside, down the glen, 103. STRESS. 1. Stress is the application of Force to some particular part of a syllable or word. 2. Stress differs from accent in this particular; stress is limited to only a part of a syllable, while accent includes the entire syllable. 3. In the utterance of an elementary sound which consists of but a single impulse of the voice, the force may lie prominently on the first or on the last part, on the middle or on both extremes, or it may be distributed with an equal degree throughout the sound. of Force to the first part of a syllable or word. 2. In applying this stress to a word the sound will burst instantaneously upon the first part of the syllable, and the succeeding part of the syllable will be uttered with a slight aspiration if the vocal organs are not under perfect control. 105. LAW OF USE. The degree of Radical Stress is determined by the intensity of emotion. It is used, first, to express narrative, didactic, and descriptive thought; and, second, to express sudden anger, fear, impetuous and startling emotions; and, third, in the delivery of vigorous and earnest argument. [From "The Bachelors." —Anon.] The naturalists say that these singular creatures Are alike in their habits, their form and their features; The Benedicks think that their senses are small, The old ones have wigs', and the young ones have hair, They are ramblers' and wanderers, never at home, Though sometimes, indeed, it may be rather more -- These creatures, 'tis said, are not valued at all, Then dress'd in their best, in their gold-broidered vest, And they turn and they twist, and are great hands at whist; For they meet to be sweet, and are fleet on their feet, Spluttering, and fluttering, and buttering Advancing, and glancing, and dancing, and prancing, And bumping, and jumping, and stumping, and thumping – |