Show for foh for fot the defered mews maws ELOQUENCE follow nature and four J judgment frame rune by her hen ea which la Is still mil the samil lai un lar kiisk cdx nature nates still stu divinely bight one claran hang bang d and aud universal cigut lut lup forc kcf and beauty must guitto to all ali Ini pait patt at once the source and and ind and tel tet lent tent ot of art 31 boyl royl what is e pence nence there abere is noth in irig ilig with witt the exception of genius lnore laore un aik ask and you yon will till li be answered by oile ojie git it is s a certain fire or melody of words constituting harny 11 by another gat it is that combination ot of sounds aad adaptation of ideas which appeal most direct directly Y oui s whatever it may realy be but few appreciate orare or are capable of judging its merits we irit do you understand it you ak ask perhaps not but by reasoning upon what is 1 not eloquence loquence quence eo we may define it with some little ittle accuracy the mere combi combination nat ion lon of words Is not eloa 00 quence words high sounding in nature and iu iii their combination prolific of harond haro nv may inay convey no idea whatever whilst words worda wor war s few tew fews simple and easily understood may carry earry wili win them more weight and ex plain or ar give rise to superior and far weighty ideas one mistake often made rade superficial persons and much cych nuch ridiculed by dr jopson Jo gaon paon who wax waz much muli addicted to style himself is the frequent use made of grandiloquent and high bounding sounding words to convey commonplace ide ideas 1 as impressing upon the be mind a feeling of grandeur ai at d sublimity irresistibly when the sense or idea expressed was taken and compared with guch auch expressions many persons persona seem to think that plainness and a are incompatible e with the principles of eloquence iut lut b ut such is most j a mistaken tn opinion f tr r where strength simplicity i p icicy and perspicuity alethe characteristics there we may expect the most eo e 0 quence we have seen bente sices said by cometo bome some to be eloquent el that it would take betor bett er understanding than we can boast to adalize an alize and which atwould it would be almost impossible for the mind to comprehend simply cimpl because they are so complex so inundated with or irrelevant mater matter or matter that must be explained by other sentences that the m nd vainly strives to comprehend their bidden meaning that sn sentence tence that requires the whole concentrated power of the mind to un uni 1 1 ravel is certainly certai uly wanting in gome some par t icu acu t r point and the comprehension la is bid hid beneath I 1 redundant dic die ion learning or rather Tather pedantry strives by obscurity to mike make up for lack of substance and employing words phrases and sentences res little understood awes the minds of the un learned but appeals not to their understand ings ingo consequently has but the smallest power 0 to o rule the soul boul by the application of lis its us dogmas strai bt straight raight bit lit forward simplicity words which the arria arrin impulsive feelings of a generous and a sensitive heart are seldom of that complex nature which whick w hichi requires study to unravel carai el worda words that spring froin froia the heart generally appeal to the heart hearts and the mere magnetism of truth unclothed ii rhetoric rheto nc and not delivered according to the rules ot elocution often have more force and more power than the gran lest combination or 0 simple found the huma human 1 m voice is capable of uttering ering rhetoric and elocution are not to be despised but to depend entirely urion upon them for f effect is to depend upon a reed easily caly ealy brok broken en he le w who ol 01 is s educated to the cus cub custom of school may nay perhaps be bb respectable as an arr educated idiot but unless he has learned tp think molook to look inward into biown soul soui to probe h ia own heart and to read the motives which actuate it and t to 3 note its mysterious Wor wordings krings klings can neither be elo eio eloquent ent nor original A proper system of though thought t will ill lii bg beget beet et a proper system of speech and will be more efficacious in developing the internal resources of human nature than all the education or mere book learning the world can ran produce genius geilus is nat not acquired by educator edu caton catob ni nis anns 1 eloquence demosthenes had the same feelings warming warman and revivifying revivify ing hh hij soul previous to his efforts to ta them that he had when upon the rostrum delivering his bis most eo eQ quent orations and his mast most stinging stinging philippics philip education systematizes and classifies but does not give birth to ideas more than it does to immortality or to truth ruth thy th y exist without it so do ideas but modes af erf thought and manners of expression may way to some extent be acquired Jo loquence Joque quence nc is the manner of expressing idea 9 to produce he the happi happl happiest esCand esfand and mst results sublimity is not el eloquence but it forms a poil portion tion of it strength bisno is TO for we may possess it without simplicity beauty is not tr it may exist without strength sublimity or even simplicity therefore 1 we see it takes a combination of 0 qua qualities 0 component parts each distinct and nd individual and each to I 1 torm form orm arm ot ote oie ote e whole A hoit bolt and that whole is so difficult of canalization analiza tion that all its particles cabonot ca finot ba classed nor arranged under umer proper heads or not cause up to think which will not drigin originate ate a train of ideas in jn our dwir minds had better never be read in like maner manner that i t ration or speech which will not givens food and originate reflection Is the reverse of 0 eloquence ams amb andis and is as io BO many words thrown away it certainly ignot is not casting 7 pearla pearls before swine for inthe topic is inte esting eating and agreeable if will not fail to apply itse f in some bome manner to the feelings and tastes of all present whether ignorant or wise learned or un 1111 learned the pedant whose mind midd is usurped by the desire to acquire languages arid and the tidbits of literary nothingness may find it dry and uninteresting in consequence of his abnormal al state ot in the man oe of sense who seeks and pot sound will find instruction therein and a basis whereon to ground some progress an and Isome some advance ment and power to shake off some bome fallibility ia his own lature small and trivial circumstances at timas and the tle ow tow obsolete traditions superstitions and dogmas of time have bave been crowded crowded out of use simp y by byi the force of gradual change and not by the uprising of nations or of individuals eloquence at times i has undergone similar changes bomba bombast st has usurped the place of s m plinty rhetorical flourish of innate vigor and rodomontade of the tha natural and use ul that chain of reasoning is the most easily understood either eliher by talent or medi iq crity which compares io incidents in the sequence ii which they transpire or appeals to the mind but many seem asem to think otherwise and in their delivery they distort and invert 1 their periods in such a manter that sense ia is 1 a almost entirely destroyed for natural and unaffected simplicity of style take Adi adl A di sons w writings wilt wiit 1 ti ings tings and in them you will fiod find a charp undiscoverable an works of metaphysical metaphysic a I 1 and abstruse berid tendency ncy the they aie ale are the reading of delighted thousands and aid to them ahm we return again and again whilst will wiil works cherel far r greater greiter display of leani leamma ing id ia tu made ade are g glanced an brough hr ough not riot read and ind then laid upon the shelf not to be bb again opened there is something go 60 genial BO so hom bom bomeline ho meline elitie and eo natural in the eloquence of works written in this I 1 ed eda style tyle refer again and again to the them as we would to return the of an old and abd long iong loved friend the pruning process however leas has i justly remarked should not be too rigid and complete as beme seme leaves and flowers are necessary to hide bide the fruit froin froal the glare of a i midday sun but bat even such exposure exposi re is ii P pret ef drible era ble to having all leaves and flowers and no no I 1 cult tault such flowery diacou discourses roes may be bearable ble bie for a short time but a constant repetition of the same causes a distaste di taste tasie anything but flattering to the object who then is eloquent we answer he who nho sho speaks naturally and direct from his bis pvn soul who bas baa there mirrored a simile of what shat be he utters and who woo knows he be is 16 speaking truth such by the kinared kii kli magnetism of hu bu j man soul cannot fail in irk effort let the diction and delivery dellver deliver 3 be ener eter BO so common lace we llave and we believe all have in mir their school i days seen sentences the very embodiment of eloquence dr drawled awed dut out 0 ut in the monotonous sameness of schoolboy boy box task wok that were I 1 one mass of confused jargon unintelligible to the hearer it was waa dot hot altogether in consequence I 1 of monotonous sa meDeo e disliked I 1 or did not appreciate jtb ita beauties b ut because the sympathy in the subject was not there and I 1 consequently we oid cid not understand it was because the spirit was wanting gIbe th cir clr circum cum stance or the occasion occasion that called it forth waha ve mentioned spirit and we wt wi vi I 1 carry 1 our illustrato illus illustration trat ion lon a little further we are riot fearful in asserting that that man has coelo no elo eio I 1 quence who cannot adapt himself to the cir cum stances that surround him why is this it is because the interest in teres is i ot there the most of the of demosthenes 1 if delivered now mould ouid fall upon listless arid and apathetic ears there would be no union be tween the words and our desires but then I 1 i when greece was almost prostrate at the feet of a tyrant when some spirit of be the ancient i patriotism and independence still lin zerel amid decaying grandeur when the foe was by ambition in battle array against them then at his cl clarion arion arlon tones every mans hand band grasped the and shook the i shield in tunce iunce de ince and his hig worda words penetrated i each heart convinced each will and arose as one man such is eloquence it grapples with the present and encounters i ces as they are it if penetrates the desires of ea each ch heart beart and ov overcomes each pach prejudice it ila jia is direct in its appeals one ward attil attic neb nes more effect than a the mere weight of opportune reproof has power to crush opposition eloquence is the school of virtue the beaming morn the fervid noon and even the crashing thunderbolt but in all its missions it cavat caust be holy holo and must follow tius the ennobling enno cling steps stepa of virtue integrity aid the graces the mute appeal is eloquent the smile of infancy and innocence the woe of the struggle of moral grandeur grande ux where death is dared but not dishonor ali all these are eloquent yet bow many deem them so the ale frothy sophistry a of loudmouthed loud mouthed pretence predence pre tence is oftener prized than the retiring ge gehi gemi M that tbt shuns the contentious arena of hutman power the massek massei mases masea jud iud judge e meo for a time at leas least by the estimation in which they hold hoh them selves they judge 0 eloquence in like manner until a tew magical words rols rola 19 in lna t their ir simplicity rouses them from indolence and warms their hearts bearta but it passes ad aid when no longer und erthe of feeling they wonder at their impressiveness and they again s like likes othe tl he wounded snake drags KB its slow blow length alent along 11 in a monotonous brawle of intellectual imbecility beci lity have we been successful srul in our defit titio 1 n we fear not for to grasp it in its essence to lay bare its i bidden springs would be bif to ds play the keys that move moye the human passions and were it not for fallibility we might constitute all men eloquent and that is ja beyond our power nor have we i e concentration concett Concert ration of mind sufficient to bring within one focus a I 1 its component parts consequently vve yve ve i cannot explain pl a 1 I 1 them lem fiut we can tell in n mady many iastan ces what at is is not eloquence what is not simple 1 and what is not no natural or in the order of cur ideas some may my think inan in an inverted manri manti manner mannen 1 er ithac that leads back backward Aard towards the 1 9 bou sou burces rebut but it lethey they will stand upon their beads heads I 1 intellectually there is rio no remedy but patience we mean not to be witty witly for wit we do not hosae sand mand sand saad did we this is not a proper sub jcck upon which to display it except to bur lesque libe vibe follies wittingly practiced when candor should be used subterfuge will not answer answer whre where tru h is wen wanting tings a ile lie would but precipitate disaster then tun is study unnecessary to become elo anent no it is the most roost necessary of all ali things we may be talented wie may have ability and even genius and yet be he unable to display it in a proper manner our talents may be offensive to others and disagreeable to ourse ourselves ives alves they may be Vs useless diess eless or positively injo injurious rious study thought and serious reflection will feil fell is us how 0 o use them theal will enable us to diaper disper dispense ibb our stores of information study the ibe lavanner in which to them the lightning is awe inspiring anit and destructive tive teve wisdom makes it harmless the tiger is a pattern of symmetry and beamut yet hla bla hi fa tanga fanga ilg rig are deadly genius is bril brichant hant halt dazzling and metor meter like but proper kroper culture fixes it as a tar in the all ari fi idame lit rit ri during as lin fin immortality rt allty |