5. This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
6. To me it was far from being an agreeable surprise; on the contrary, it was a disagreeable one.
7. Thought and language act and react upon each other.
8. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
9. I shall always make nature, truth, and reason, the measures of praise and dispraise.
10. A gentleman who was pressed by his friends to forgive his daughter, who had married against his wishes, promised to do so, but added, that he would have them remember that there was a difference between giving and forgiving.
“In the preceding, and in all similar cases, the position of the accent is completely changed by the emphasis. The reason is obvious: the speaker wishes to draw the special attention of the person addressed to the contrasted parts of the words; and hence he pronounces those parts or syllables emphatically, the effect of which is, in such cases, to change the seat of the accent.
“This transposition of the accent takes place also in words which have a sameness of termination, even though they may not be directly opposed in sense; as in the following examples:—
1. Cataline was expert in all the arts of simulation and dissimulation; covetous of what belonged to others, lavish of his own.
2. In this species of composition, plausibility is more essential than probability.