LYCEUM IN RALEIGH. z
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We have frequently heard surprise expressed
that there is in Raleigh no Lyceum or Literary
Club, to which our young men could resort for
amusement and instruction. The University has
its Societies. Hillsboropgh has OF had its Litera-
ry Society; Oxford has its Lyceum; bus Raleigh,
the capital of the State, and the abode Of very
considerable genius and talent; possesses nothing
of the sort.


We shall not offer any arguments to show the
importance of such an Institution. It's impor-
tance, it seems to US, ought long since to have
forced itself upon the minds of the intelligent
We but repeat simple truism when we say,
every thing must have a beginning Cf the ac-
complished and successful speaker this is especial
ly true. Whatever Nature may have done for
him-with whatever prodigality she may have
endowed him with her gifts, it is only by little
and lhle that he ntains perfection in that resist
less tloquence " which r 80 =; .a 49,, =. .,.+


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- To Macedon and Artaxerxes throne.'' IS --.r.
; Generally, enthusiasm is indispensable to elo-
quence; and no enthusiastic young man. who is
blessed with ordinary capabilities of mind, ought
to despond. All history, ancient and modern,
tells him to take courage Let him look a.
bout him at the great masters of eloquence now
upon the stage; let him look at the forum and the
pulpit; at that i" hero in armour" by which the
ancients represented eloqdence, "wilh one arm
naked to the elbow, holding thunder, and with the
other an open book with an hour-glass standing
on t." and let him remember that {" DESPAIR" is
only "wriucn on t,,...ssl E-- is-4t2ls,i ai..g IT,