must, unquestionably,

pay the damages, to a farthing;

but though such malicious servant might also be indicted,

so as to subject himself to death, or other punishment by

to be an exception to every other human act?

Why is a man to be answerable

criminaliter,

for the crime of his servant, in this instance,

it is shocking to humanity, and insulting to common sense.

How is this vindicated? vindicated

From the supposed necessity of the case.

An indictment for a libel

is, therefore,

considered to be an anomaly - in the law.

that is,

[CHARGED BY THE INDICTMENT. the publication of the libel - WITH THE INTENTION

3. CONTENTIOUS AFFIRMATION.

This might also be called the Forensic style; being that used in the most vehement debates, and by lawyers, in their most powerful pleadings. It expresses the extreme of earnestness in contending for victory, or in striving to gain a cause; and calls for a corresponding degree of mental and bodily energy.

Its tone is that of the compound stress; i. e. a stress first at the beginning and then at the end of a syllable. The middle part of the slide is less forcible than the commencement, and instead of a vanishing termination, a sudden force is given at the end. Hence the terminal consonants of syllables and words are very strongly enunciated, and the articulation is forcibly distinct.

The gestures are numerous, and made with great strength and heartiness.

The extracts on pp. 56, 262, and 275, are from powerful pleadings of great lawyers, and require this style.

The following extract is from a speech of the most powerful of the French orators. Its object is to prevail on the legislature to adopt, without examination, an extreme measure intended to rescue France from national bankruptcy.

It will be perceived that the overpowering vehemence of this style and the next one, causes the groups to be long; and not only multiplies emphatic words, but sometimes makes more than one emphatic inflexion necessary in a phrase.

Has not the Minister of Finance

drawn a most ALARMING PICTURE Has he not told you

of our present situation?

and that, without the concurrence of PUBLIC OPINION,

the GREATEST POSSIBLE talents

would be of no avail, in the present circumstances.

I, too,

am far from thinking,

[means;

that the minister has proposed the best possible ways and

but at this critical moment,

I cannot even think of placing my views in opposition to his.

However preferable, I may deem them,

I know that it is in vain

for me

more perhaps, than that of any former statesman.

We must, therefore,

come back to the plan of Mr. Neckar.

But, "why adopt it without deliberation?"