Show 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 THE FOWER 01 ELOQUENCE some of lit andelt i a modern times i magadine Maga sine there is no gift so rare As that of oratory and philip of Afa cedon I 1 did not estimate itil power A whit too highly when he offered a town of inhabitants for one orator where we can enumerate 4 long list of masters in every other art we can count on our fingers those who attained the in I 1 of her three great dramatic poets besides her epic but the mantle of 11 demosthenes lies where it fell it I 1 like manner atme oratory which is upheld by cicero alone it 58 the orator who in all ages has revolutionized lut ionized the world with his burning eloquence rouse a the athenian populace to rise in 1 arms against philip and the tyrant himself bore an eloquent tribute to the influence of the great orator for be said z had I 1 been there he 1 would have persuaded we to take 1 I 1 arra against myself this or stat was equal to it actual ly accomplished by cicero who not only confounded cataline and silenced but made the trembling caer acquit the man 1 he had 1 to conden with the great of speech the same experience occurs fro quent lv for half an boor asid hastings Ha in describing his trial 1 I looked up at the or ator bunker in a of wonder and actually felt myself to be the most man on earth A man who has left to history but the simple name ofleter of Peter the f her mit rouses thousands kings 1 and people to engage in the cru bades and two centuries i later arose the I 1 solitary monk that afook the world to quote line re ferri vig to luthe r later still and history was made by the defiant tones of the french demosthenes mirabeau as be cried to the messenger of the I 1 king slave go tell your master that we are here by the will of the people and that we will depart only at the point af the bayonets etl 11 I 1 but for this defiant interposition the spirit of the tiers betat would have been broken the Na tiMal A 1 would bava been disburse A J and the de would have eon tinned to exercise its fell away it is encouraging to young speakers to know that there never I 1 has been dad never will be such a I 1 thing as a born orator there has never yet been tu instance of I 1 an orator becoming famous who did not assiduously ataop aven had to overcome great ghys phys I 1 cal infirmities that rendered it 1 for them to adopt the career ofa public speaker the best known instance is that of dt sosthenes pos thenes who passed some months in it subterranean cell abating one side of his head so that he could i not appear in he there practiced with to overcome a defect in his speech and gesticulated beneath a huspen ded sword to rid himself of an un laceful movement of the shoulder aven then he was hissed from the bema in his early efforts but be persevered abe world knows with what success when robe rt wal 1 pole first spoke in the house lie paused for want of words and eon linued only to stutter currant m as known at school as stuttering jack currant and in a debating society abich ibich ho joined as orator alum every one will readily recall failure I 1 when he role to make his maiden speech cobbens Cob dens first effort was also a humiliating failure but one shoula not cou elude from these instances that every speaker who breakie down is sure to blossoms into fame subsequently we davd been quoting the excel eions to the general rule mo ile I 1 frequently speak t rs ru rh tire like earl of X ester i I 1 aly lord he said on one deca sion I 1 rise this time my lords II 1 divide my discourse into four tran clies here be came I 1 to a woeful pause and the it he I 1 added hy lords irever I 1 rise I 1 again in thi I hauae I 1 give you leave 11 1 ever tacui me I 1 A root ind branch for many of the beat orators dav I 1 even to their latest efforts felt a erskine said that I 1 on his rising to plead for the first I 1 time he should have eat down in evit fusion had he not felt his abil v I 1 dren tugging at bis gown the earl of derby the rupert of AI bate always knew when he Z goli 0 g to speak ivell by his nervous ness on rising this was also a characteristic of conning at a dinner given by the ala yoro fLir er pool be was so nervous lefore being called on to speak that be had twice to leave the room to collect his this may have been how ever owing to the campara com para live novelty of his on blany sin orator outside his I 1 1 acculto med haunts is completely lost ird eldon said he was all f naya somewhat nervous in speak 11 ing I 1 at the goldsmiths dinner could talk before t ni ent as though he were adar eing i many rows bf cabbage plants k mr gordon speaking of lord john russell said on ta boards f the house of coro mons Joho nyi 11 one of the most subtle and daiger f ous of opponents take him off these i boards anaf care nothing for bia I 1 ito to bew was it given as to oconnell OCon pell succeed equally witla all audiences before he entered the house be waa declared to a mere inoa orator bu 1 t in 1830 he was return ed and in 1831 he was recognized as a leader whether in way 1139 a a hillside appealing to a more educated in par aliment or in persuading a jury in a court house be was equally at home richard lalor bbiehl was called 1 1 the because of the influence he e xera over the irish this was diminutive stature an ungraceful action and A harsh voice that sometimes 1 rose into a J ve abream i I 1 no doubt it was the earnestness and I 1 sincerity offee speaker that appeal I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 l tl t 1 W T w r ai 4 I 1 I 1 V ia 1 1 ed to the hearts of and made them the by their sympathies the t who has at heart the cause he aavo eates will always stand a far greater chance chatin he who his mere comma d of words and the art of rhetoric A fine speech is a fit e aid oconnell but the is the thing this is a maxim which will be found lying at the root of every reputation made by an orator people will always judge by an ef feet and not by temporary bensa bious but a poor success who maecs people exclaim es claim what a fine but it e 18 entirely successful who persuades them to his thinking this is what fenelon meant in his dialogues of the dead when be represents demosthenes As saying tg Cicero thou madest people eai 11 well ho speaks but arty let us march against i phil apt that an orator will create no im who does not seem to feel eis words is a certa luty the an guid manner of blarcum Blar cui Call idius in accusing one of an attempt to polson him was urged by cicero as an argument in the of the charge |