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As I have said, his object is to excite the emotions which, being excited, will be most likely to impel his audience to think or act as he desires.
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Hoar discusses the emotional impact an orator aims to achieve with their audience.
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What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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