Quaker Quiddities Or Friends in Council a Colloquy
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Thou art not now upon the rising-seat. Murray and Goold (both weighty Friends), well known At Haverford, at Providence as well, Have taught that English grammar is the art Correctly to express by speech or pen The English language. Pass the syntax by ; The tax too great the chronic sin to cure. Of daily violations of the laws Of speech, in case and number, numberless. * Note F. QUAKER QUIDDITIES. 21 But speech has other laws, by nature formed, By wisdom perfected, and use ordained. By these, wh...en reason clothes the thought in words, When feeling to its gushings utterance gives, When passion flashes and when mercy pleads, And indignation thunders its behest, All speech is governed ; and each living word Flies on its embassy of weal or woe, Winged by the potency of utterance clear, A graceful manner, and an earnest soul ; And, by an intonation richly robed, Like beauty by the sculptor's chisel traced. JEREMIAH. Thy words, my friend, sound strangely to my ear. SAMUEL. Dost miss the twang conventional, the tone Which, by some instinct or some custom strange, So oft our public ministrations make Revolting violations of the rules Which nature, law, and usage have ordained ?
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