This page needs to be proofread.
AN
ORATION.
OPINION, be it founded in truth or error, governs thought, and action; and is indefinite in extent of influence.
Although it may be formed from a passing and trivial incident; and its impression, on pro- mulgation, be limited to a few minds, yet, at some period, by successive communication, the whole intelligent race of mankind may bear a stamp of its original character.
Such reflections naturally pressed on the mind of your first Orator. For, however light his admitted authority, he presumed that it would be sufficient �
