Wednesday, February 15, 2006

he assured them

"...and it was a matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinry influence of his oratory on his hearers and how much they admired and respected him, notwithstanding his common abuse of them, by assuring them they they were naturally half beasts and half devils."

-Benjamin Franklin (on his impression of George Whitefield)

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