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He must have, in perfection, the eye and the voice which are the only and natural avenues by which one human soul can enter into and subdue another.
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Hoar asserts that a great orator must possess the ability to connect deeply with others through their voice and presence.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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