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wh cording to the old definition of oratory, reason fused
genial on, but reason fused by the warmth of personal zr. 27.
wry ao + No one has ever reached Cobden’s pitch of sucb
 eyond : platform spenker, with a style shut seldom went
2d con © vigorous and animated conversation of a bright
Af Pamcnaiile spirit.
pt 15 is nok tropes snd perorations that make the
We lo ; ibis the whole impression of his personality.
in Gobo yread them, cau diseern certain admirable qualities
Present : Spheres ; aptness in choosing topics, lucidity in
Bug thon em, buoyant confidence in pressing them home.
this, iy Wi listened to thm felt wuch more than all
TN were delighted by mingled vivacity and ease, by
offers by spontanecusness and reality, by the charm,
A and so uncommon between a speaker and his
dint ot Persons] frinniiiaony and undisguised corhag
 3 or wg give an ilinstration of this, Cobden once
i, npc with Rowland Hill, some time in 1838,
the poste evidence in favour of the proposed reform in
— — Rowing Hill, in writing to him afterwards,
“Your o self for troubling Cobden with his private affairs :
® Solty Dvorsstion, svidenn, and letters, have created
towards, ‘mind so like that which one entertains
ot, yon he a Bion, that I 20 apt to forget that I have
en ggg ub “nue Ie was just the same with bodies of
Yor go © iia with individuals. No public speaker was
elation om and 80 successful in establishing genial
fail, respect without formality, and intimacy without
Words y. Gu great source of this, in Mr. Bright's
ia co. Was “the absolute truth that shone in his eye and in
: po enanc,
haping pre of Cobden’s patience in acquiring and
Potienc 1. ho, This was surpassed by his inexhaustible
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