A Grammar of the English Language: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Every American Youth (Classic Reprint)

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In the following Letters you will find very little of what is called eloquence; but you will find plenty of what is of far more importance to you, and that is, IN struction. To be sure, eloquence is, of the two, a great deal the most pleasing; and when we have the advantage of listening to it, nothing, perhaps, with which civilization has made us acquainted, is so capable of affording intellectual enjoyment. But this enjoyment is unfortunately of short duration. That which produces it, dazzles our sight, be wilders our thoughts, intoxicates our judgment. It is like the influence of a chandelier brought within an occupied dungeon: The mighty disseminator shines upon the un fortunate inhabitant with such a glare of light, that he sees worse than he saw in the darkness. The stimulant is two great; owing to the extreme excitability of the visual organ. There is such a mass of the fluid introduced into the expanded pupil, that the retina is completely flooded, and, for a time, until some of the excess of light is drawn otl', unable to perform its natural functions. As this ex. Case is diminished, by passing through the conductor of the brain, the operated on, begins to see when, in an in. Stant, the s eaker ceases, the light brought into the dun.

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