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Though his genius has thrown up into literature the most brilliant spray of rhetoric and imagination, its natural movement and sug- gestion was the ground-swell of a resistless and unfathomable power. And hence his eloquence had always the serious and self-assured strength that made it competent to the utterance of a na- tion's thought and purpose. He would have been more fit, by language and manner, than any other man reared on this continent, to represent the American republic in a world's co...ngress of prime ministers and kings. Some three or four years ago there was a liter- ary party in London at the house of the venera- ble poet, Samuel Rogers, then ninety years old. He had known Burke and Pitt and Fox and Sheridan personally. And late in life he be- came acquainted with Mr. Webster in England, and corresponded with him. At the party, on the mention of our dead statesman's name, Mr. Rogers said, " I knew him ; I received letters from him. Edmund, " he continued, turning to a servant, "bring to me Mr.
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