. Here the emphasis is laid upon the first syllable in
unjust
, because it is opposed to
just
in the same sentence, without which opposition it would lie in its proper place, that is, on the last syllable, as
we must not imitate the unjust practices of others
.
The general rule for knowing which is the emphatical word in a sentence, is,
to consider the design of the whole
; for particular directions cannot be easily given, excepting only where words evidently oppose one another in a sentence, and those are always