Frederick Douglass: “Listening to him was like standing near the track of a railway train…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Listening to him was like standing near the track of a railway train, drawn by a locomotive at the rate of forty miles an hour.

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Frederick Douglass

Source

Douglass uses a powerful simile to convey the overwhelming experience of listening to Lord Brougham speak.

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Frederick Douglass: “Listening to him was like standing near the track of a railway train, drawn by a locomotive at the rate of forty miles…”