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. THE CHAP. BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES. Page 152 Ibid. 154 I. Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy appoint him General in the Expedition against tion IV. Callifthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to V. The Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander VII. The Earl of Aundel's Speech, propofing an phen Salluft 157 Quintus Curtius 165 Ibid. 162 Tacitus 161 Lord Lyttleton 168 174 177 184 190 VIII. Mr. Pulteney's Speech on the Motion for re- IX. Sir John St. Aubin's Speech for repealing the X. Sir Robert Walpole's Reply XI. Lord Lyttleton's Specch on the Repeal of the XII. In Praise of Virtue XIII. The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar CHAP. Page Shakespear 231 Ibid 233 Ibid. 236 XI. Henry and Lord Chief Juftice XII. Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely |