Excerpt from The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence But however, in the courfe of his oration, Cicero fo Wrought upon his pa ions, that by the frequent altera tion in his countenance, the emotions of his mind were very confpicuous.. And when he came to touch upon the battle of Pharfalia, which had given Gefar the em pire of the world, he re refented it in foch a movin and lively manner, that efar could no longer contain himfelf, but was thrown into fuch a fit of fhivering, that he dropped the papers which he held in his hand. This was the more remarkable, becaufe Gefar was him?to the columbian orator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."