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Excerpt from Lectures: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, 1868
IN giving these Lectures to the world, I believe I am only taking a usual step, and one that is expected of Oxford Professors, more or less, by that University. I need only then ask my readers to bear in mind that they are lectures, to be heard, as ancient Pistol says, 'with ears' - not subtle disquisitions to be meditated upon in a quiet study. They have therefore been thrown into a key more rhetorical and familiar than I should otherwise have adopted, and are rather, to use Aristotle's phrase, epideictic orations than argumentative essays. I must add that for five-and-twenty years and more, I have done nothing as an orator, except to mumble now and then a few words, against my will, at a wedding breakfast. It follows that these compositions must be, in point of tone and style, necessarily tentative. Indeed, one reason for not putting OH publication till a greater number of them had heaped themselves up, is, that the sooner any cor.
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