Specimens of American Eloquence: Consisting of Choice Selections from the Productions of the Most Distinguished American Orators (Classic Reprint)

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It is the belief of the publishers that in the following pages, they present to the public a volume most highly creditable to the intellect of our country. The reason of this excellence is obvious. The institutions and condition of our country are such as especially to call forth and pro. Mote talents for public speaking. Every question of grave import, or doubtful tendency, is carried, not at the bayonet's point, or by royal edict, but by the popular voice, after the sharp conflict of mind with mind. On this account too, a volume of judicious selections from American Eloquence, becomes a commentary upon our laws, religion, and politics, which should be in the hands of every freeman who would honorably discharge the duties of a citizen and a patriot. It need scarcely be remarked that such a work is eminently suited to be placed in the hands of the young, not only for the manly views and the pure morality which its pages con tain, but as affording some of the brightest models for their study and imitation. Even the student of eloquence whose mind has been enriched by the stores of antiquity, may dwell with daily and nightly devotion upon a work embra cing within its varied pages, specimens of the transparent musical flow of Everett and Story - the impetuous torrent of Beecher - the scathing coruscations of Burges - and the thunder of Webster. He may advantageously lay aside his rules and treatises, to sit often and long at the feet of these masters of the art of persuasion, that by an habitual con templation of their excellence he may be transformed into the same image. Let him learn too from their example not to be soon weary of his exertions, or faint in his labors, what.

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