sfirt American Edition. THE BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS, TATLERS, AND GUARDIANS, CONNECTED AND DIGESTED UNDER ALPHABETICAL HEADS. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, THE LIFE or YOSEPH ADDISON, Esq. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. BOSTON: BY AND C. BINGHAM, CORNHILL 1801. THE BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS, TATLERS, &c. ELOQUENCE. Will's Coffee-House, Sept.g. The subject of the discourse this eveining was elo an HE quence and graceful action. Lyfanger, who is fomething particular in his way of thinking and speaking, told us, a man could not be eloquent without action : For the deporement of the body, the turn of the eye, and apt sound 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 infensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest, so it must be a very lively conscioufness that gives grace to great sentiments. The jeit is to be a thing unexpected, therefore your undeligning manner is a beauty in expressions 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, said he, a remarkable example of that kind : Æschines, a famous orator, of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes ; |