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I, e c T. tbefe, though they have confiderable beauty,XVII. have, at the fame time, no fmall appearance ofart and ftudy; and , therefore, though they maybe admitted into formal harangues, yet theyfpeak not the language of great earneflnefs andpaffion, which feldom proceed by fteps fo regu-lar. Nor, indeed, for the purpofes of effeclualperfuafion, are they likely to be fo fuccefsful, asan arrangement of circumftances in a lefs artificialorder. For, when much art appears, we arealways put on our guard againft the deceits ofeloquence ; but when a fpeaker has reafonedftrongly, and, by force of argument, has madegood his main point , he may then , takingadvantage of the favourable bent of our minds,make ufe of fuch artificial figures to confirm oufbelief, and to warm our minds.

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