But you talk of the ſubſerviency of a popular audience to every fallacy of an artful orator!—and do you really then think that a multitude dailily accuſtomed to all the artifice and force of harangue, is to be claſſed with a modern croud, opening wide their eyes, and mouths too, to the declaimer, as if ignorant with which ſenſe to receive the novel taſte of eloquence?
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