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And yet this is as true as that you are alive. With the excep- tion of Mr. Canning, there is scarcely the shadow of an orator in the house of commons; and the house of lords is, beyond all doubt, the most sleepy place in England, except the Italian opera and Mr. Campbell's lectures. Mr. Brougham is a laborious speaker. To me there appears something somewhat grotesque in his attempts at impassioned oratory, wherein he occasionally displays his zeal and warmth in contortions of face and figure ne...arly approaching to the lu- dicrous. He has an iron face and an iron figure, both equally divested of grace or majesty, nor does his action or expression make amends for these deficiencies of face and person. Yet his habits of laborious investigation and research, his extensive range of memory, and his capacity for intellectual arrange- ment, make him, on the whole, a useful man of business, and a powerful pleader ; for his eloquence is little more than spe- 100 ' A Skefvk of Old England, cial pleading^.
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