The Australian magazine

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[Sydney] : Printed by A. Cohen, 'Australian' Office, 1838-1838
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THE  

AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE.  

No. 11.  

FEBRUARY, 1838.  

VOL 1.  

BRITISH ORATORY.  

Of all the acquirements which can adorn and exalt man, eloquence  

is the most difficult—the most sublime—the most powerful—and the  

most interesting. person, by attention and experience, can render  

himself intimately acquainted with literature and science; but nothing  

save innate genius can cause one to become an accomplished orator.  

Neither study, instruction, nor experience, can give single individual  

the fascinating power of captivating the attention of his hearers, and  

making their sentiments accord with his own. An orator, when de-  

livering his opinions with ease, with energy, and with elegance, is  

elevated far above the rest of his fellow-creatures. He is, at that  

moment (as it were), being of superior kind, and is invariably  

looked upon by admiring thousands with feelings of respect and  

veneration. He is the champion of his country’s rights—the director  

of her counsels—the determined enemy of oppression—and the friend  

and protector of independence. In state whose commerce has de-  

generated—whose bravery has vanished—whose virtue has become  

corrupted—and whose power has been dwindling into insignificance,  

through the pernicious influence of luxury and wealth—he is the man  

on whom the people alone can depend “to stem the torrent of the  

downward age.” He is the man to whom, of all others, the helm of  

state can alone be entrusted with confidence and safety. In an infant  

Colony, just emerging from insignificance, and rising into wealth,  

power, and importance, he is the person who is to maintain the liber-  

ties of his fellow-subjects.  

Many and talented writers have given us their ideas of the force of  

eloquence, and the nations wdiich boast of the most illustrious orators.  

It is asserted that Greece can pride herself in her Demosthenes, and  

Rome, in her Cicero and her Csesar; while the nations of modern times  

can claim the honor of having given birth to none save speakers of  

inferior abilities. ’Tis true that the grandeur of thought and exag-  

gerated language of ancient times is now no longer heard but we  

unhesitatingly assert, that sentiments have been expressed by some of  

our British statesmen in language in no way inferior to the purest  

models of antiquity. History has already enumerated, along with  

that of Cicero and Demosthenes, the names of Chatham, Pitt, Burke,  

box, Sheridan, and the lamented Canning. The last of these, as  

.NO. II. —vol. i.  

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