address, the political speech, the sermon, the lecture, and other platform

deliverances. Whole addresses may be made up of such biographical details, such

as a sermon on "Moses," or a lecture on "Lee."

 

The following example is in itself an expanded anecdote, forming a link in a

chain:

 

_MARIUS IN PRISON_

 

The peculiar sublimity of the Roman mind does not express itself, nor is it at

all to be sought, in their poetry. Poetry, according to the Roman ideal of it,

was not an adequate organ for the grander movements of the national mind. Roman

sublimity must be looked for in Roman acts, and in Roman sayings. Where, again,

will you find a more adequate expression of the Roman majesty, than in the

saying of Trajan--_Imperatorem oportere stantem mori_--that Caesar ought to die

standing; a speech of imperatorial grandeur! Implying that he, who was "the

foremost man of all this world,"--and, in regard to all other nations, the

representative of his own,--should express its characteristic virtue in his

farewell act--should die _in procinctu_--and should meet the last enemy as the

first, with a Roman countenance and in a soldier's attitude. If this had an

imperatorial--what follows had a consular majesty, and is almost the grandest

story upon record.

 

Marius, the man who rose to be seven times consul, was in a dungeon, and a slave

was sent in with commission to put him to death. These were the persons,--the