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It is true, we had not any long oration denouncing the absentees, the cabinet council, or any other set of men; but there was not a man present that at one hour and seventeen minutes after the cloth was removed but could have made a Demosthenic speech far superior to any record of antiquity.
Looking with contempt at the stiff, ornamental, and childishly antithetical style of his day and nation, he welded the flimsy elements of the French language into instruments of strength akin to his own conceptions, and wrought out of them a style for himself in which a Demosthenic simplicity and severity of language is sustained by an earnest and straightforward power which vivifies and amplifies all that it touches.
It is a sympathy for "substance" the over-value together with a consciousness that there must be a lower value the "Demosthenic part of the Philippics" the "Ciceronic part of the Catiline," the sublimity, against the vileness of Rousseau's Confessions.
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