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Excerpt from The Speeches Exuberance of fancy IS certainly a defect; but it is evidence of an attribute essential to an orator. There are few men without some judgment, but there are many men without any imagina tion: the latter class never did, and never can. Produce an ora tor. Without imagination the speaker sinks to the mere dry arguer. The matter-of-fact man, the calculator, or syllogist, or sophist the dealer in figures: the compiler of facts; the mason, but not the architect of the pile; for the dictate of the imagina tion is the inspiration of oratory, which imparts to matter ani mation and soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Speeches (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Charles Phillips
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9781330597255
• ISBN: 9781330597255
• ID: 09670597
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2015

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