Excerpt from The Rhetorical Speaker: Comprising Selections for Declamation, and Suggestions, Designed to Assist the Efforts of Inexperienced SpeakersThat though he was the most laborious of all the orators, and had almost sacrificed his health to that application, yet he could gain no favor of the people, but drunken seamen, and other unlettered persons, were heard, and kept the rostrum, while he was entirely disregarded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.