And as I fear that I have already exhausted your patience, I shall hasten to close, with the same exhortation to the revival of the art of elocution, which Quintilian used to the Romans, to engage them in the support of it, when in its declining state. After having invalidated several objections to the study of that art, he concludes thus: "Ante omnia sufficit ad exhortationem studiorum, non cadere in rerum naturam, ut quicquid non est factum, ne fieri quidem possit: cum omnia quæ magna sunt atque admirabilia, tempus aliquod quo primum efficerentur, habuerint. Verum etiam si quis summa desperet (quod cur faciat, cui ingenium, valetudo, facultas, præceptor, non deerunt?) tamen est (ut Cicero ait) pulchrum in secundis tertiisque consistere. Adde quod magnos modica quoque eloquentia parit fructus: ac si quis hæc studia utilitate sola metiatur, pene illi perfectæ par est. Neque erat difficile, vel veteribus, vel novis exemplis palam facere; non aliunde majores honores, opes, amicitias, laudem præsentem, futuram, hominibus contigisse, si tamen dignum literis esset, ab opere pulcherrimo, (cujus tractatus, atque ipsa possessio, plenissimam studiis gratiam refert) hanc minorem exigere mercedem, more eorum qui à se non virtutes, sed voluptatem quæ fit ex virtutibus, peti dicunt. Ipsam igitur orandi majestatem, qua nihil Dii mortales melius homini dederunt, et qua remota muta sunt omnia, et luce præsenti et memoria posteritatis carent, toto animo petamus, nitamurque semper ad optima: quod facientes, aut evademus in summum, aut certe multos infra nos videbimus." [Footnote 15: Vide B. I. Ch. xv. B. II. Ch. ix.] FINIS. NOTES TO THE TEXT In the following notes, numbers refer to pages and lines in the present text. All translations from the Latin are from Loeb Classical Library editions. 6:1-8. Thomas Sheridan, _British Education_ (London, 1756), p. 52. 6:24-7:7. _Ibid._, p. 53. 12:4-6. _Aeneid_, V, 194. Trans. H. Ruston Fairclough. "No more do I seek the first place ... it were a shame to return last." 17:7-22. _British Education_, p. 85. 17:26-18:15. _Ibid._, pp. 85-86. 19:24-20:5. _De Oratore_, III.xxxv.143. Trans. H. Rackham. "But if on the contrary we are trying to find the one thing that stands top of the whole list, the prize must go to the orator who possesses the learning. And if they allow him also to be a philosopher, that is the end of the dispute; but if they keep the two separate, they will come off second best in this, that the consummate orator possesses all the knowledge of the philosophers, but the range of philosophers does not necessarily include eloquence." 37:22-24. _Brutus_, vi. 23. 38:11-12. Horace, _Epistles_, I.ii.43. Trans. H. Ruston Fairclough. "... waiting for the river to run out: yet on it glides, and on it will glide, rolling its flood forever." 38:20-23. Richard Steele, _Spectator_, 484, 15 September 1712.