"rich in thought and destitute of form, passionate and hair-splitting, eloquent and pithy in expression, energetic and condensed to the point of obscurity."

If by the word Eloquence we are to understand the art of exalting patriotism, moderating customs, and directing the interests of society, it is necessary to confess that the ancients bring great advantages to the modern ones; Or to put it better, they are our admiration today, since they cannot be our model. But if we stick their primitive and general meaning to the Elocution, our effects owed their credit and authority to the ancient leaders, and the first speakers their triumph, we will have to agree on vulgar languages, although less rich, flexible, and harmonious than Greek and Roman, have produced writers, equal to those of those times in the nobility, grace, and colorful expression, when not superior in production, greatness, and truth of ideas. And since they must remain permanently unalterable, we can identify them better than diction, which is disfigured, or lost in translations.

In many speakers of antiquity we read the common lawsuits of our lawyers: private claims, domestic facts, personal grievances, legal evidence, ordinary language, neat details, power to yawn who is not a judge, party, or employer. Only the feathers of Salustio and Tacitus know how to make interesting the smallest things, and give greatness to the smallest facts, not because of the expression they wear, but because they always present them in relation to politics, and the revolutions of the Roman Empire . Let us confess, then, that only a blind enthusiast of all that is not thought, says, and does in his time can find dignity, beauty, and interest in most of the forensic causal causes, which he cannot move but the one he feared or expected the judgment of his judgments. Our Supreme Courts, those of France, and England producing wise and jealous magistrates, who in defense of justice, the civil property of man, and the law of Sovereignty have shone the efficacy and gravity of eloquence. But these men live with us, speak our language, have our defects; and this is enough not to be read or celebrated.

answer; acquired mainly during early childhood;