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First American Edition.

THE

BEAUTIES

OF THE

SPECTATORS, TATLERS,

AND

GUARDIANS,

CONNECTED AND DIGESTED UNDER

ALPHABETICAL HEADS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
THE LIFE OF

JOSEPH ADDISON, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

PRINTED FOR JOSEPH BUMSTEAD.

SOLD BY HIM AT NO. 20, UNION-STREET:

BY

THOMAS AND ANDREWS, NEWBURY-STREET; BY E. AND

S. LARKIN, WM. P. AND L. BLAKE, W. PELHAM,

AND C. BINGHAM, CORNHILL.

1801.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 475128

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS,

1909

THE

BEAUTIES

OF THE

SPECTATORS, TATLERS, &c.

ELOQUENCE.

Will's Coffee-House, Sept. 9.

THE fubject of the difcourse this evening was eloquence and graceful action. Lyfunder, who is fomething particular in his way of thinking and speaking, told us, a man could not be eloquent without action: For the deportment of the body, the turn of the eye, and an apt found to every word that is uttered, must all conspire to make an accomplished speaker. Action in one who speaks in public, is the same thing as a good mien in ordinary life. Thus, as a certain infenfibility in the countenance recommends a fentence of humour and jest, so it must be a very lively confcioufness that gives grace to great fentiments. The jest is to be a thing unexpected, therefore your undefigning manner is a beauty in expreffions of mirth; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself, the more you will move others.

There is, faid he, a remarkable example of that kind: Æschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes;

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