eloquence

• Yet even to his final sermon, he maintained his preeminence; and in no one discourse of his last years, did he decline into mediocrity, or fail to remind the elder part of his audience of a period when his eloquence was almost superhuman. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• And for many years, during which Mr. Gladstone was distrusted as a statesman because, while he had ceased to be a Tory, he had not fully become a Liberal, his eloquence was the main, one might almost say the sole, source of his influence. —  William Ewart Gladstone
• The quick emphatic sentences he substituted for the cumbrous periods of the day, his rapid argument, his vivacious and caustic allusions, his passionate appeals, his fearless invective, struck a new note in English eloquence. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
• But while his ordinary manner was thus calmly commanding, his eloquence was as fiery as it was persuasive. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
• One sentence of his which I myself heard deserves to be remembered among the best things in American eloquence. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

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