INDEX Abercrombie's Lecture on Em. Correspondents, To, 81-170-282 89-180 Celebs in Search of a wife, re- Lecture on Pauses, 383 Drama, the . 25-421 General, Monu. Dedication to my Wife, 49 Drysdale, Thomas, Biographical Author's Evenings, 135_254 Notice of, 484 337 English Language, Remarks on, 308 American Painters, Anecdotes of, 316 France, Travels in, 41-101-199 Apparatus, Description of, for Franklin, Dr. Letter from, 114 Unrolling the Herculanean Friend, Prospectus of The, 104 521 Fox and Pitt, Portraits of, Bloomfield, Robert, original Let Geography, 60 Gertrude of Wyoming, Criticism 177 Gates, Horatio, General, Life of, Biddle, Captain, Memoirs of, 285 Gregoire's Letter, Beattie, Dr. original Letter from 299 Brydone's Tour, 322 Hayti, Memoirs of, 35—103—188 -325-414-490 514 Hamlet, Remarks on the Charac- Cowpenfinch of N. America, 61–151 History, Natural, 116 69 Hutchinson, Col. Memoirs of, . 513 . . . Page Page 9 81–170—282–577 324 441 511 29 420 The, No. VI, . 124 69 444 Smith, Judge, Obituary notice of, 78 451–551 Simmons, James, Obimary no- tice of, 80 452 Southey's Thalaba, Defence of, 57 502 Shaw, John, Obituary notice of, 382' 55 Sciota, Ruins of an ancient work 419 331 Solomon's Creek, View of the 443 , 281 View of the 540 508 497 537 554 87-378-459 97 313 281 World, the Sententious, or Se- the Literary, . 241-546 the Laughing, the Classical, · 541 437 Woodlands, description of the, . 505 . 356 . ORIGINAL POETRY. Page . Page 279 Lines to Miss 77 on the Glasgow Hodge Podge Club, 567 375 147 377—573 Smedes, Anna, Tribute to the 565 373 Memory of, Stanzas, to Miss A. F. 458 279 571 . . . On the nature and proper use of EMPHASIS, by which the truth and force of sentiment is conveyed. GENTLEMEN, THE subject to which I shall solicit your attention this evening is that important principle of correct elocution, Emphasis, by which the truth and force of sentiment is conveyed; and without the just observance of which, no reader or speaker can properly impress the minds, or engage the attention of his hearers. The word Emphasis, etymologically considered, means signification or force. It is a Greek word, and when applied to speech, imports the marking by the voice any word or words in a phrase or sentence, as more important than the rest. The purpose of Emphasis may be effected in several ways; by increase of force, by variation of tone, by extension of time in enunciation, or by any two or all of these together. In the first way, Emphasis operates by simple vociferation; in the second, by accent; in the third, by quantity. Wherever Emphasis rests it combines itself with the eminent accent of the word, commonly adding to its force, often altering its tone, never removing it from its place, and only sometimes where some opposition is to be marked within the word, holding any very striking connexion with any other syllable. Though a similarity of operation |