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The demonstrative type of oratory requires freer and more
expansive rhythms, while forensic and deliberative
oratory will vary the arrangement of their words in
conformity with the variety of their themes.
I must now turn to discuss the first of the two
points which I mentioned above.1 No one will deny
that some portions of our speech require a gentle
flow of language, while others demand speed,
sublimity, pugnacity, ornateness or simplicity, as
the case may be,
1 Sect. 121.
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