...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloqiience, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful...

...preservative against writing ill, or more potent charm for writing well.* And so Goldsmith: 'To feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence.' Elsewhere he says: 'Eloquence is not in the words, but in the subject; and in great concerns, the more...