The Life of Patrick Henry, of Virginia
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Hen- ry had over the springs of feeling and thought that belong to a jury." He knew them man by man — saw the motives that were to influence their actions — the peculiar weakness which gave him access to their hearts, and he touched, with the skill of Orpheus, the strings whose vibrations were in harmony with their own emotions, and thus held them by a power which they neither had the strength nor disposition to resist. He iieems to have known precisely what kind of topics to urge on their unde...rstandings, and what kind of simple imagery to present to their hearts, wh'le his inexhaustible store of apt illustrations, clothed in the most striking and melodious lan- gua^^e an;! aidad by an action the most simple and which was always under the complete con- trol of his thoughts ; now swelling into grandeur anil now sinking into tenderness, made him almost irresistible.
76 PATRICK HENRT. 1766 But of all jury trials, he was more particular- ly at home in those of a criminal nature. At the time of which we write a certain day of the gen- eral court w^as regularly set apart for criminal business, and on that day Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Hen- ry had over the springs of feeling and thought that belong to a jury." He knew them man by man — saw the motives that were to influence their actions — the peculiar weakness which gave him access to their hearts, and he touched, with the skill of Orpheus, the strings whose vibrations were in harmony with their own emotions, and thus held them by a power which they neither had the strength nor disposition to resist. He iieems to have known precisely what kind of topics to urge on their unde...rstandings, and what kind of simple imagery to present to their hearts, wh'le his inexhaustible store of apt illustrations, clothed in the most striking and melodious lan- gua^^e an;! aidad by an action the most simple and which was always under the complete con- trol of his thoughts ; now swelling into grandeur anil now sinking into tenderness, made him almost irresistible.
76 PATRICK HENRT. 1766 But of all jury trials, he was more particular- ly at home in those of a criminal nature. At the time of which we write a certain day of the gen- eral court w^as regularly set apart for criminal business, and on that day Mr.
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