Politics of the Georgium Sidus

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lion which teach a knowledge of the human heart, and invest one with the power to overawe or captivate it. The future business of the Senate will differ from the sports, ?only in the apparent magnitude of the objects, ? not at all, in keenness and duplicity of intrigue, in the play of passions', in the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lion which teach a knowledge of the human heart, and invest one with the power to overawe or captivate it. The future business of the Senate will differ from the sports, ?only in the apparent magnitude of the objects, ? not at all, in keenness and duplicity of intrigue, in the play of passions', in the earnestness with which the different interests are prized by the heart, in the ambition, emulation, or strife which arise upon them. Declamation, When the hopeful youth visits you, at the seasons of recess, you must not fail to give him, proper supplementary lessons. To inspire him with forwardness and self-confidence must still be your principal object. Set him to declaim upon any subject in human affairs; according to the method that succeeded so well towards wards making a parliamentary orator of the famous Philip Duke of Whaetojt. Allow him, as Lord H did with C F, to rummage, tear, and burn your most important papers at pleasure. Of, as the great Earl of C? is reported to have done for his illustrious second son, accustom your intended legislator to dispute with you, and speechify to you, with the same spirit, as if he were, himself, already, the preceptor, iind you but his humble pupil. Private Theatres. Sometimes, you may introduce him to make one among a party of gentlemen and lady performers of private plays. It is well known what wonderful powers for senatorial eloquence T Shdn, and Mr. Skffn, and Mr. Grvl have acquired by their .Esopus diligence. Did not the Priory Theatricals inspire a certain Most Noble Marquis with eloquence and patriotism to check the insolence of the Irish Bench ? Is it not reasonably expected of the young Roscius, that the time must quickly arrive when it shall be said of him, with unquestionable truth, as apolitical orator...