If it be true of a writer that the best style is that which most directly flows from living qualities in the writer’s own mind and is a pattern of their actual working, so is the same thing to be said of oratory.
Morley discusses the essence of effective writing and oratory as reflections of the writer's mind.
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An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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