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' HI Uf'HUGHAPH words, during all gree of excellence time n i n g tl -.pre! d a of I . mil THE POWER ORATORY. t h r o u g h delicate and h a n today of old, hold- a high p iiij^ to the-e mitfh m >r- of , v less power!nl one of • «. pre-eminent. I t possesses by a m o r e extended mean- of exj w i e l d a grei r power literature, "j in t h e r a i memorie of fields on >f 1 r lost ; §, i. id i 1 *d S summer, a d v a n c i n g from t h e colder, harsher storms _ of winter, takes on new and gentler graces more pleasing to the eye and captivating to tin* senses, BO, from the lower pha - of ivage life where Btern necessity is law, and the baser passions are the chords which, rudely k. gii e key-m fence, m a n k i n d advances to where the gentler gra of civilization lure him, and where in cont: he savage storm f passion of barbaric life, bloom in sw "enity the flower f culture and refinement. A advai -nt is made toward higher and yel higher planes of perf u, new n< arise, new arts spring into existence to ml w i n g all t h e while more complex, -o t h a t the d( >f civilization attained by a people i< meas« ired i the n u m b e r and perf n of its arts. Assuming A will »on t a k e iU p] e. Fi tl \ i ' is little republi d from her .Mediterranean, flourished over the whole civil h declined. T r u e , at ti • voice worthy t h e lofl halls hav i\ long inter . f I 1 J *nieno» in the tuncils of infant i itself t h r o u g h tl er <»fl ire only sp ka t h r n fi n 1 For the m< n t t h e birth ol jnt tl in th ns ; »r moment s t • ha> • • ^ ^ | this to be the proper standard by which society to be jud and in this a imption we are upheld by all social •rv. then to h an extent as any portion of society Jack- in the a linmenl of any of the ai to that extent it falls bel< the | indard of civilization. .Man is d gui*»hed from all otl creatur by the o--c n r>f ell-defined emotional n a t u r e and the power f th and n vhich a; ad n tie '• we would exj t in the nr their prodi ion, 3 eptation cons! ii ul It is no g\ the popular has < » inly is J* ^^^^^ •ratorv and it 1 sent it ; ••' the contrary, all f r o m the low. I » ml pr 0* . 8 * _ if • I as aiv all ( twer }j tflOfl ns. 1 / I n a t i o n s t o find t h e g r e a t d e v e l o p m e n t of I long and patient labor ! I , • pre- -n of t h o u g h t and e m o fion i~ realized. Literature. which speaks the m through choice a n d well a r m n d }the d l-\ the ind ui I he same j son \ w ho V' \ . xl on • .k
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