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The thorough treatment of one theme
will be more profitable than the sketchy and superficial treatment of a number of subjects. For the
latter practice has the result that nothing is put in
its proper place and that the opening of the declamation exceeds all reasonable bounds, since the
young orator crams all the flowers of eloquence
which belong to all the different portions of the
theme into that portion which he has to deliver,
and fearing to lose what should naturally come later,
introduces wild confusion into the earlier portions
of his speech.
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