Examples. (37)
1. What is the difference between probability and possibility?
2. Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss.
3. John attends regularly. William, irregularly.
4. There is a great difference between giving and forgiving.
5. The conduct of Antoninus was characterized by justice and humanity; that of Nero, by injustice and inhumanity.
6. The conduct of the former is deserving of approbation, while that of the latter merits the severest reprobation.
Emphasis and Inflection. (37)
Emphasis sometimes changes the inflection from the rising to the falling, or from the falling to the rising. For instances of the former change, see Rule II, and Exception 1 to Rule IV. In the first three following examples, the inflection is changed from the rising to the falling inflection; in the last three, it is changed from the falling to the rising, by the influence of emphasis.
Examples. (37)
1. If we have no regard for religion in youth’, we ought to have respect for it in age.
2. If we have no regard for our own’ character, we ought to regard the character of others.
3. If content can not remove’ the disquietudes of life, it will, at least, alleviate them.
4. The sweetest melody and the most perfect harmony fall powerless upon the ear of one who is deaf’,
5. It is useless to expatiate upon the beauties of nature to one who is blind’,
6. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren’; but rather let them do them service.