For the WilmingtOnian.
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A mans ability to please in conversation,
is not always in proportion to his knowledge.
More depends upon manner than matter.
A man may have a mind teeming with intel
ligence, his imagination may be feIvent,
chaste, and lofty, yet if the offspring of his
mind and the creation of his imagination are
not ushered forth in appropriate and impress
sive language, gesture or countenance, his
thoughts are forgotten, and his words "pass
away as the idle wind" More depends on
hozv we say, than what we say. A single
sentence delivered in a proper tone, has done
more than an elaborate oration. The dying
words of Lawrence were more stimulating to
the courage of his seamen, than prolix dis