flame in my boyish heart. That monument covers the bones of my own kinsfolk; it

was their blood which reddened the long, green grass at Lexington. It was my own

name which stands chiseled on that stone; the tall captain who marshalled his

fellow farmers and mechanics into stern array, and spoke such brave and

dangerous words as opened the war of American Independence,--the last to leave

the field,--was my father's father. I learned to read out of his Bible, and with

a musket he that day captured from the foe, I learned another religious lesson,

that "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God." I keep them both "Sacred to

Liberty and the Rights of Mankind," to use them both "In the Sacred Cause of God

and my Country."

 

--THEODORE PARKER.

 

_Narration of Events in General_

 

In this wider, emancipated narration we find much mingling of other forms of

discourse, greatly to the advantage of the speech, for this truth cannot be too

strongly emphasized: The efficient speaker cuts loose from form for the sake of

a big, free effect. The present analyses are for no other purpose than to

_acquaint_ you with form--do not allow any such models to hang as a weight about

your neck.

 

The following pure narration of events, from George William Curtis's "Paul

Revere's Ride," varies the biographical recital in other parts of his famous

oration: