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Cicero (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
I come now to Cicero. He had
the same battle with his contemporaries which I have with you. They admired
the ancients; he preferred the eloquence of his own time. It was in taste
more than anything else that he was superior to the orators of that age. In
fact, he was the first who gave a finish to oratory, the first who applied a
principle of selection to words, and art to composition. He tried his skill
at beautiful passages, and invented certain arrangements of the sentence, at
least in those speeches which he composed when old and near the close of
life, that is when he had made more progress, and had learnt by practice and
by many a trial, what was the best style of speaking. As for his early
speeches, they are not free from the faults of antiquity. He is tedious in
his introductions, lengthy in his narrations, careless about digressions; he
is slow to rouse himself, and seldom warms to his subject, and only an idea
here and there is brought to a fitting and a brillian