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' 25 few years, and you will see them ail transfigured one into a preacher of such winning eloquence, that he almost persuades all men to be Christians another into a parliamentary orator, who commands the applause of listening senates, " etc. Enough of the sentence has been quoted to illustrate the point. The periodic style was unnatural to Wilson's play of mind, in which thought was joined to thought by an emotional, and not by a logical link. He trusted to the intrinsic interest of the subje...ct-matter, and to the glowing eloquence of his language, rather than to any formal sentence artifices to attract the attention of his readers. The sentence forms into which he naturally slipped were of a nature foreign to the period. Wilson's most characteristic sentences are either abruptly short or extremely long. In the latter, one co- ordinate statement is heaped upon another. This same tendency in Carlyle's writings was denominated by Minto "a studied ruggedness and a careless cumulative method.
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