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Edward Everett seems to me, on the whole, our best example of the orator, pure and simple.
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Hoar expresses his admiration for Edward Everett as a quintessential orator.
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You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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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