Fifty years ago . speeches are not only pre-viously turned over with great care in his mind, but arewritten out at full length, and committed carefully tomemory. He is a great patron of the tailor, and he isalways dressed in the extreme of fashion. His mannerof speaking is very affected : the management of hisvoice is especially so. But for this he would be apleasant speaker. His voice, though weak, is agreeable,and he speaks with considerable fluency. His speechesare usually argumentative. You see at once that he isa person of great intellectual acquirements. Mr. DIsraeli, the member for Maid


Fifty years ago . speeches are not only pre-viously turned over with great care in his mind, but arewritten out at full length, and committed carefully tomemory. He is a great patron of the tailor, and he isalways dressed in the extreme of fashion. His mannerof speaking is very affected : the management of hisvoice is especially so. But for this he would be apleasant speaker. His voice, though weak, is agreeable,and he speaks with considerable fluency. His speechesare usually argumentative. You see at once that he isa person of great intellectual acquirements. Mr. DIsraeli, the member for Maidstone, is per-haps the best known among the new members who havemade their debuts. As stated in my Sketches inLondon, his own private friends looked forward to hisintroduction into the House of Commons as a circum-stance which would be immediately followed by hisobtaining for himself an oratorical reputation equal tothat enjoyed by the most popular speakers in thatassembly. They thought he would produce an extra-.


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