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So4 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE.- Ch.XVIII.
pressed in words: it in part resembies the sirsl or-
der,' by the liveliness os an accent succeeded in-
slantly by a full pause • but then the elevation oc-
calioned by this eircumslance, is balanced in seme
degree by the remitted effort in pronouncing the
second portion, which remitted effort has a tenden-
cy to rest. Another eircumslance dislinguifheth it
remarkably: its capital accent comes late, being
placed on the sixth syllable; and this eircumflance
bellows on it an air of gravity and solemnity.- The
lasl order resembies the second in the mildness os
its accent, and softness of its paufe; it is Hill more
solemn than the third, by the lateness of its capital
accent : it also posseffes in a higher degree than
the third, the tendency to reft; and by that cir-
cumslance is of all the belt qualisied for closing a
period in the completed manner.
But these are not all the diili'nguisiiing charac-
ters of the disserent orders^ Each order, also, is
dislinguissied by its final accent and pause: the un-
equal division in the sirsl order, makesan impres-
sion ofafcending; and the mind at the close is in
the highesl elevation, which naturally prompts it
to put a slrong emphasis upon the concluding syl-
lable , whether by railing the voice to a sharper
tone, or by expressihg the word in a fuller tone.
This order accordingly is os all the leas! proper sor
concluding a period, where a cadence is proper,
and not an accent. The second order, being de-
slitute of the impression of aleent, cannot rival the
first
pressed in words: it in part resembies the sirsl or-
der,' by the liveliness os an accent succeeded in-
slantly by a full pause • but then the elevation oc-
calioned by this eircumslance, is balanced in seme
degree by the remitted effort in pronouncing the
second portion, which remitted effort has a tenden-
cy to rest. Another eircumslance dislinguifheth it
remarkably: its capital accent comes late, being
placed on the sixth syllable; and this eircumflance
bellows on it an air of gravity and solemnity.- The
lasl order resembies the second in the mildness os
its accent, and softness of its paufe; it is Hill more
solemn than the third, by the lateness of its capital
accent : it also posseffes in a higher degree than
the third, the tendency to reft; and by that cir-
cumslance is of all the belt qualisied for closing a
period in the completed manner.
But these are not all the diili'nguisiiing charac-
ters of the disserent orders^ Each order, also, is
dislinguissied by its final accent and pause: the un-
equal division in the sirsl order, makesan impres-
sion ofafcending; and the mind at the close is in
the highesl elevation, which naturally prompts it
to put a slrong emphasis upon the concluding syl-
lable , whether by railing the voice to a sharper
tone, or by expressihg the word in a fuller tone.
This order accordingly is os all the leas! proper sor
concluding a period, where a cadence is proper,
and not an accent. The second order, being de-
slitute of the impression of aleent, cannot rival the
first