Excerpt from Discourse on Edward Everett - no preacher in this community was heard withgreater admiration and delight. I recall him only as a secular orator. My first experience of his marvel lous power in that line was the famous oration deliv ered before the University at Cambridge, in the pres ence of Lafayette, then visiting this country of his early fame a performance which made an era in the lite *ary history of the college, as it did in the intel lectual history of many who heard it. The address to the honored guest ...
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Excerpt from Discourse on Edward Everett - no preacher in this community was heard withgreater admiration and delight. I recall him only as a secular orator. My first experience of his marvel lous power in that line was the famous oration deliv ered before the University at Cambridge, in the pres ence of Lafayette, then visiting this country of his early fame a performance which made an era in the lite *ary history of the college, as it did in the intel lectual history of many who heard it. The address to the honored guest drew tears from the veteran's eyes. All present were profoundly stirred. The vast assembly was fused together in one emotion. I sup pose there was never an oration, spoken on a similar occasion and to such an audience, which affected so powerfully the sensibilities of those who heard it. This first great effort of his early manhood estab lished Mr. Everett's fame as an orator, and occasioned his nomination and election to a seat in the National Congress, the beginning of his political career. Then followed in constant succession, interrupted only by his four-years' residence abroad, an astonish ing number of. Orations and allocutions, pronounced on all possible occasions, civic, academic, political, his torieal, festive, and funereal, many of which are print ed, and fill large volumes. They are characterized by perspicuity of statement, skilful arrangement, grace ful method, massiveness of composition, felicity of illustration, purity of thought, nobility of sentiment, simplicity of diction. They place their author amongthe very first. Orators, not of this age and country only, but of all time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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