The thoughts were fine, and were expressed in simple and beautiful words.

The delivery was grand and impressive, and the presentation of each successive theme glowed with subdued fire.

There was no straining after mere rhetorical effect, but an artistic treatment of a succession of great subjects in a general and yet vivid and picturesque fashion.

The emotion produced by the Plymouth oration was akin to that of listening to the strains of music issuing from a full-toned organ.

Those who heard it did not seek to gratify their reason or look for conviction to be brought to their understanding.