Vulgar words in The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster - With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style (Page 1)

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The question arises, How could he hold the attention of such audiences without condescending to flatter their prejudices, or without occasionally acting the part of the sophist and the buffoon?

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I employ no scavengers, no one is in attendance on me, furnishing such means of retaliation; and if there were, with an ass's load of them, with a bulk as huge as that which the gentleman himself has produced, I would not touch one of them.

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