What Lord George Bentinck appreciated most in a parliamentary speaker was brilliancy: quickness of perception, promptness of repartee, clear and concise argument, a fresh and felicitous quotation, wit and picture, and, if necessary, a passionate appeal that should never pass the line of high-bred sentiment.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage details the qualities he most admired in effective parliamentary oratory.
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Free from prejudices, his large mind sympathized with all classes of the realm.
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