The sentences are generally short and always clear, but never monotonous.

The preference for Anglo-Saxon words and the exclusion of Latin derivatives are extremely marked, and we find here in rare perfection that highest attribute of style, the union of simplicity, picturesqueness, and force.
In the first Bunker Hill oration Mr.Webster touched his highest point in the difficult task of commemorative oratory.

In that field he not only stands unrivalled, but no one has approached him.

The innumerable productions of this class by other men, many of a high degree of excellence, are forgotten, while those of Webster form part of the education of every American school-boy, are widely read, and have entered into the literature and thought of the country.

The orations of Plymouth and Bunker Hill are grouped in Webster's works with a number of other speeches professedly of the same kind.