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Further, there is such weight in all that he
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says that his audience feel ashamed to disagree with
him, and the zeal of the advocate is so transfigured
that it has the effect of the sworn evidence of a
witness, or the verdict of a judge. And at the same
time all these excellences, of which scarce one could
be attained by the ordinary man even by the most
concentrated effort, flow from him with every appearance of spontaneity, and his style, although no fairer
has ever fallen on the ears of men, none the less
displays the utmost felicity and ease.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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