solaesime

Updated: June 2, 2025

20th The Gestures of the Body must be Suited to the discourse you are upon Hawkins i. 30. Let the gestures of thy body, be agreeable to the matter of thy discourse. For it hath been ever held a solaesime in oratory, to poynt to the Earth, when thou talkest of Heaven.

Moncure Daniel Conway - George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway