102. Analogy between the Decay of Nature and of Man, 103. Re-union of Friends, . 104. God, the True Object of Confidence,. 105. Hymn to the Creator,.. 106. Advice to a Young Lawyer, . 141. Death, the final Conqueror; or, the Old Baron's last ........ 157. Reflections from the Summit of an Egyptian Pyramid,.. 169. Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist,. 170. Duties of American Citizens, 171. Duties of American Citizens,-Continued, NOTE.-The student will find it advantageous to determine * Some of these signs are the same as used in Porter's Rhetorical works. "FALSE Eloquence, like the prismatic glass, 1. ELOCUTION is vocal Nature. Her speech is ever distinct, varied, and expressive-ever eloquent. Every sentiment and emotion of the soul, as fear, surprise, love, anger, she expresses in her own appropriate style. The lively expressions of youth, in their ordinary pastimes, are but the spontaneous language which Nature utters. To elucidate Nature's modes of expression, to develop the powers of the voice, and to acquire skill in its management, in conformity with her established laws, are the leading objects of Elocutionary Science. Its design is not, as is too often supposed, to establish certain imaginary and arbitrary rules, by which the voice is to be regulated, but to explain those natural laws, in which natural reading or speaking consists. 2. Though the human voice, in its natural state, is rich in "sweet sounds;" yet, like every other faculty, by proper dis |