Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in
sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three
thousand thistles through the thick of _his_ thumb, see
that _thou_, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of
_thy_ thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter.
18. We travel _sea_ and _soil_; we _pry_, we _prowl_;
We _progress_, and we _prog_ from _pole_ to _pole_.




SECTION II.

ACCENT AND EMPHASIS.

ACCENT and EMPHASIS both indicate some special stress of voice.

Accent is that stress of voice by which one _syllable_ of a word is made
more prominent than others; EMPHASIS is that stress of voice by which
one or more _words_ of a sentence are distinguished above the rest.

ACCENT.

The accented syllable is sometimes designated thus: ('); as,
_com-mand'-ment_.

NOTE I.--Words of more than two syllables generally have two or more of
them accented.