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Article REMARKS ON PULPIT AND BAR ORATORY. ← Page 2 of 2 Article COUNT LARGORYSKY. Page 1 of 2 →
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Remarks On Pulpit And Bar Oratory.
Addison was now living , and to visit the senate in the character of a spectator what would he say on perceiving that , in the whole House of Commons there were not above twenty members qualified for public speakers ? There is not any nation in Europe whichhas more occasion to cultivate the art of oratory than England . Yet no people under heaven were ever so defective in that art as the English . Our lower house of parliament is as much a popular
assembly as the senate of old Rome . It is the nature of all popular assemblies to have some leaders . ¦ Those leaders should be men of eloquence . The present times afford not any such . Incoherent rant , and discordant jargon , mark the complexion of our senate . Yet in that house the affairs of the nation , as in our common law courts , and matters relative to the property of individuals are
affected , in some degree , by the powers of rhetoric . This should convince us of the necessity of cultivating the art of oratory , or for ever laying aside all pretensions to it . Perhapsthe latter would be the better way . Possibly nature denied us the power of attaining unto the perfection of oratory .- If we are not naturallincapable of making some progress in the useful artit is
y , an high reflection on our national character , that we are so shockingly deficient . It can never be owing to our modesty , as Mr . Addison would suggest . For unless it can be proved that our divines and lawyers are the most bashful men in England , we shall still be at a loss to account for their being the worst readers and speakers that ever disgraced any civilized country .
Count Largorysky.
COUNT LARGORYSKY .
THE miserable fate of Poland has had a sad and fatal influenceupon , the venerable and much lamented Count LARGORYSKY . This honourable victim to his Country ' s wrongs , was one of the few Polish Noblemen who had virtue or courage sufficient to oppose the schemes of it ' s despoilers , and , by espousing with a firm and manly resolution the Cause of the People and his oppressed Countryopenlto oppose the views of Despotism .
, y The Count ' s possessions were not very considerable , but his Benevolence was unbounded . His whole life had been spent in the service of Poland , and his only happiness consisted in rendering others so ; formerly , when the peasantry of that country were oppressed by their imperious Lords , to whom they were no other than the most menial slaves—but which days , alas ! were
comparativel y days of felicity to ' what these brave people , under the iron sway of the Despots they must now be subject to , are doomed to suffer!—In those days the peasants on the estate of the good LARr GQRYSKY , were the envy of their surrounding brethern—they lived free , happy , and contented under him—he spent the greater part of his income in rendering them so , and for this purpose he built on . his domains a house for the reception of the old and the infirm ,.
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Remarks On Pulpit And Bar Oratory.
Addison was now living , and to visit the senate in the character of a spectator what would he say on perceiving that , in the whole House of Commons there were not above twenty members qualified for public speakers ? There is not any nation in Europe whichhas more occasion to cultivate the art of oratory than England . Yet no people under heaven were ever so defective in that art as the English . Our lower house of parliament is as much a popular
assembly as the senate of old Rome . It is the nature of all popular assemblies to have some leaders . ¦ Those leaders should be men of eloquence . The present times afford not any such . Incoherent rant , and discordant jargon , mark the complexion of our senate . Yet in that house the affairs of the nation , as in our common law courts , and matters relative to the property of individuals are
affected , in some degree , by the powers of rhetoric . This should convince us of the necessity of cultivating the art of oratory , or for ever laying aside all pretensions to it . Perhapsthe latter would be the better way . Possibly nature denied us the power of attaining unto the perfection of oratory .- If we are not naturallincapable of making some progress in the useful artit is
y , an high reflection on our national character , that we are so shockingly deficient . It can never be owing to our modesty , as Mr . Addison would suggest . For unless it can be proved that our divines and lawyers are the most bashful men in England , we shall still be at a loss to account for their being the worst readers and speakers that ever disgraced any civilized country .
Count Largorysky.
COUNT LARGORYSKY .
THE miserable fate of Poland has had a sad and fatal influenceupon , the venerable and much lamented Count LARGORYSKY . This honourable victim to his Country ' s wrongs , was one of the few Polish Noblemen who had virtue or courage sufficient to oppose the schemes of it ' s despoilers , and , by espousing with a firm and manly resolution the Cause of the People and his oppressed Countryopenlto oppose the views of Despotism .
, y The Count ' s possessions were not very considerable , but his Benevolence was unbounded . His whole life had been spent in the service of Poland , and his only happiness consisted in rendering others so ; formerly , when the peasantry of that country were oppressed by their imperious Lords , to whom they were no other than the most menial slaves—but which days , alas ! were
comparativel y days of felicity to ' what these brave people , under the iron sway of the Despots they must now be subject to , are doomed to suffer!—In those days the peasants on the estate of the good LARr GQRYSKY , were the envy of their surrounding brethern—they lived free , happy , and contented under him—he spent the greater part of his income in rendering them so , and for this purpose he built on . his domains a house for the reception of the old and the infirm ,.