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+ | But my experience was quite different. Not a single word escaped me. There was plainly a defect in articulation quite unpleasant, doubtless, to critics ears. But I was too intent on what the speaker said to notice much how he said it. Besides if I now recollect aright he made no gestures, although at the time I did not observe that he failed to use this necessary means to a successful elocution. This is a good evidence as to the quality of his lecture in at least one respect: namely its interest. | ||
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+ | The lecturer uttered many wholesome truths. Among others I recollect one distinctly uttered in this pointed language: | ||
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+ | "The last Presidential election was not, as the rebels claim, the cause of the Rebellion. It was its opportunity. It was the |
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But my experience was quite different. Not a single word escaped me. There was plainly a defect in articulation quite unpleasant, doubtless, to critics ears. But I was too intent on what the speaker said to notice much how he said it. Besides if I now recollect aright he made no gestures, although at the time I did not observe that he failed to use this necessary means to a successful elocution. This is a good evidence as to the quality of his lecture in at least one respect: namely its interest.
The lecturer uttered many wholesome truths. Among others I recollect one distinctly uttered in this pointed language:
"The last Presidential election was not, as the rebels claim, the cause of the Rebellion. It was its opportunity. It was the