3. Can you explain this difficult sentence'? Yes`; I can.

4. Are they willing to remain at home'? They are`.

5. Is this a time for imbecility and inaction'? By no means`.

6. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets'? I know that thou
believest`.

7. Were the tribes of this country, when first discovered, making any
progress in arts and civilization'? By no means`.

8. To purchase heaven has gold the power'?
Can gold remove the mortal hour'?
In life, can love be bought with gold'?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold'?
No`; all that's worth a wish, a thought,
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.

9. What would content you`? Talents'? No`. Enterprise'? No`. Courage'?
No`. Reputation'? No`. Virtue'? No`. The man whom you would select,
should possess not one, but all of these`.

NOTE I.--When the direct question becomes an appeal, and the reply to it
is anticipated, it takes the intense _falling_ inflection.

EXAMPLES.

1. _Is_` he not a bold and eloquent speaker`?