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country, exhibit altogether
a greatq‘roty of excellence,
IS to he found in4m fpteehes - un.
J&lid more
tioßir of moral and faihifd.bautiSS
d**4#*Sl enlarged Had W
curate views of the ednftitutten,
policy and resources, not only of
his ow bov the
European states, enriched at the
fame time with the at:
ahoqdant decora**
tvuh the imagery of an active and
wing kitcy. They have, to ufc
the tebguage of Cicero, not only -
and bones, but the fleih
add healthy juices of eloquence,
]be arrant'cvier.t cf his matter is
always luminous, and his stile eT
X,f that kind wfteh is bdf adapted
■liderction* -if i>r, imperious
S’turpi, induced hint to abandons
te theatre of public ihe and
the prad/ce of the law, after”
of feyeraTfsarL p*tf
the bar of Maryland. HU cefcbri- J
fy a* orator,’ united to a condb ,
iaimg addrefe and an h iga* ]
hk affkhiity in performing *tl
ties of; hk profcffion, soon ptoAjfcl
cd ‘ him an ample portion of the
mofi honorable and lucrative buft
neft of the (late, H had receiv:
i may be allowed the ex- j
- prdfea, which i ikuatk/n m*
ver allows its poffefor to mitzm *
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|bw jh* Imh ptming msm ,
mi- • le < omi
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an aceutei:eft which my art can e-j
lude, through all the mazes, of 4nl
‘ufe, cannot but be
ftrucfc wish admiration at tLegGon
iihmg verfeility of his powers* an
admiration, indeed, mingled with
regret, that fitch powers ihould ,
not be more congenially employed
than in tracing a boundary dine, or *
inveiligating the antiquity of a tide
Belidts having at Im command all
the tributary itreams of eloquence, }
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:n contract
H* calls au cm ire river burning
impetuously from its source, a deep
{l udy of fus cause under ‘every pha-
Gs, In case, which involve the
ddeuttion of general principles or
their application to fadts, in which
sagacity oi the morabft or the grac
es oh the orator are to he display
ed, he lianas pre-etnin nd un
rivalled* With the ancients, no
orator was thought to merit the
epithet of eloquent, however co
gent in argument, brilliant in y&- J
agination, or captivating in di&iori,
untefs he could, as they
fenfc fterefc intelligence
Lylaogz. ]\u hk ringer -upon the’
brings 10 the
i pafifeiK ‘ In (his .‘department hfe :
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during the trial of a-, confide:, able
da which Crass
ieg’ cauuftl for the plaintiff* and
Antonins for rim defendenU The
circomltancos of the case werefljM
the highdt degW novel and mu
tertilifi ; *
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