If Nonsense, when accompanied with such an Emotion of Voice and Body, has such an Influence on Men's Minds, what might we not expect from many of those Admirable Discourses which are printed in our Tongue, were they delivered with a becoming Fervour, and with the most agreeable Graces of Voice and Gesture?
We are told that the great
Latin
Orator very much impaired his Health by this
laterum contentio,
this Vehemence of Action, with which he used to deliver himself. The
Greek
Orator was likewise so very Famous for this Particular in Rhetorick, that one of his Antagonists, whom he had banished from
Athens
, reading over the Oration which had procured his Banishment, and seeing his Friends admire it, could not forbear asking them,