The last consonant represents always, in variable words, quality, person, mode or time. The radical, on the contrary, represents the sum and substance.
4. Monosyllables are long, but they have, especially when they follow each other, particular rules, which result from the sense of the phrases, and from the mutual dependence of words.
Chapter VI.
Method.
Dictation Exercises.
A subject and text being given, notes may be written under the nine following heads:
- Oratorical value of ideas.
- The ellipse.
- Vocal inflections.
- Inflective affinities, or relation to the preceding inflections.
- Gestures.
- Imitative affinities.
- The special rule for each gesture.
- The law whence this rule proceeds.
- Reflections upon the portrayal of personal character.
Chapter VII.
A Series of Gestures for Exercises.
Preliminary Reflections.
We know the words of Garrick:
"I do not confide in myself, not I, in that inspiration for which idle mediocrity waits."