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quick recollection, the forcible reasoning, and the ready utterance of the accomplished Barrifter; and the fublime devotion, genuine dignity, and unaffected earneftnefs of the facred Orator: but when a man, in either of these capacities, fo far forgets the ends, and degrades the confequence of his profeffion, as to fet himfelf forth to public view under the character of a Spouter, and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial eloquence, though the skilful may gaze and applaud, the judicious cannot but be grieved and difgufted. Avail yourself, then, of your skill in the Art of Speaking, but always employ your powers of elocution with caution and modefty; remembering, that though it be defirable to be admired as an eminent Orator, it is of much more importance to be refpected, as a wife States man, an able Lawyer, or an useful Preacher.

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CHAP.

BOOK V.

ORATIONS AND HARANGUES.

Page

152

Ibid.

154

I. Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy
II. Hannibal to his Soldiers
III. C. Marius to the Romans, on their hesitating to

appoint him General in the Expedition against
Jugurtha, merely on Account of his Extrac-

tion

IV. Callifthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to
Alexander

V. The Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander
VI. Galgacus the General of the Caledonii to his
Army, to incite them to Action against the
Romans

VII. The Earl of Aundel's Speech, propofing an
Accommodation between Henry II. and Ste-

phen

Salluft

157

Quintus Curtius

165

Ibid.

162

Tacitus 161

Lord Lyttleton

168

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VIII. Mr. Pulteney's Speech on the Motion for re-
ducing the Army

IX. Sir John St. Aubin's Speech for repealing the
Septennial A&

X. Sir Robert Walpole's Reply

XI. Lord Lyttleton's Specch on the Repeal of the
A&t called the Jew Bill, in the Year 1753

XII. In Praise of Virtue

XIII. The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar
XIV. Gloucefter's Speech to the Nobles

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