Contrast now the circumstances of your life and mine, gently and with temper,

AEschines; and then ask these people whose fortune they would each of them

prefer. You taught reading, I went to school: you performed initiations, I

received them: you danced in the chorus, I furnished it: you were

assembly-clerk, I was a speaker: you acted third parts, I heard you: you broke

down, and I hissed: you have worked as a statesman for the enemy, I for my

country. I pass by the rest; but this very day I am on my probation for a crown,

and am acknowledged to be innocent of all offence; while you are already judged

to be a pettifogger, and the question is, whether you shall continue that trade,

or at once be silenced by not getting a fifth part of the votes. A happy

fortune, do you see, you have enjoyed, that you should denounce mine as

miserable!

 

--DEMOSTHENES.

 

7. After careful study and practice, mark the pauses in the following:

 

The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for

national life. We hear the sounds of preparation--the music of the boisterous

drums, the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and

hear the appeals of orators; we see the pale cheeks of women and the flushed

faces of men; and in those assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have

covered with flowers. We lose sight of them no more. We are with them when they

enlist in the great army of freedom. We see them part from those they love. Some

are walking for the last time in quiet woody places with the maiden they adore.