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St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
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BOOK IV.
chap. 24. The effects produced by the majestic style
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24
.
The
effects
produced
by
the
majestic
style
If
frequent
and
vehement
applause
follows
a
speaker
,
we
are
not
to
suppose
on
that
account
that
he
is
speaking
in
the
majestic
style
;
for
this
effect
is
often
produced
both
by
the
accurate
distinctions
of
the
quiet
style
,
and
by
the
beauties
of
the
temperate
.
The
majestic
style
,
on
the
other
hand
,
frequently
silences
the
audience
by
its
impressiveness
,
but
calls
forth
their
tears
.
For
example
,
when
at
Caesarean
in
Mauritania
I
was
dissuading
the
people
from
that
civil
,
or
worse
than
civil
,
war
which
they
called
Ceterva
(
for
it
was
not
fellow-citizens
merely
,
but
neighbours
,
brothers
,
fathers
and
sons
even
,
who
,
divided
into
two
factions
and
armed
with
stones
,
fought
annually
at
a
certain
season
of
the
year
for
several
days
continuously
,
every
one
killing
whomsoever
he
could
),
I
strove
with
all
the
vehemence
of
speech
that
I
could
command
to
root
out
and
drive
from
their
hearts
and
lives
an
evil
so
cruel
and
inveterate
;
it
was
not
,
however
,
when
I
heard
their
applause
,
but
when
I
saw
their
tears
,
that
I
thought
I
had
produced
an
effect
.
For
the
applause
showed
that
they
were
instructed
and
delighted
,
but
the
tears
that
they
were
subdued
.
And
when
I
saw
their
tears
I
was
confident
,
even
before
the
event
proved
it
,
that
this
horrible
and
barbarous
custom
(
which
had
been
handed
down
to
them
from
their
fathers
and
their
ancestors
of
generations
long
gone
by
and
which
like
an
enemy
was
besieging
their
hearts
,
or
rather
had
complete
possession
of
them
)
was
overthrown
;
and
immediately
that
my
sermon
was
finished
I
called
upon
them
with
heart
and
voice
to
give
praise
and
thanks
to
God
.
And
,
lo
,
with
the
blessing
of
Christ
,
it
is
now
eight
years
or
more
since
anything
of
the
sort
was
attempted
there
.
In
many
other
cases
besides
I
have
observed
that
men
show
the
effect
made
on
them
by
the
powerful
eloquence
of
a
wise
man
,
not
by
clamorous
applause
so
much
as
by
groans
,
sometimes
even
by
tears
,
finally
by
change
of
life
.
The
quiet
style
,
too
,
has
made
a
change
in
many
;
but
it
was
to
teach
them
what
they
were
ignorant
of
,
or
to
persuade
them
of
what
they
thought
incredible
,
not
to
make
them
do
what
they
knew
they
ought
to
do
but
were
unwilling
to
do
.
To
break
down
hardness
of
this
sort
,
speech
needs
to
be
vehement
.
Praise
and
censure
,
too
,
when
they
are
eloquently
expressed
,
even
in
the
temperate
style
,
produce
such
an
effect
on
some
,
that
they
are
not
only
pleased
with
the
eloquence
of
the
encomiums
and
censures
,
but
are
led
to
live
so
as
themselves
to
deserve
praise
,
and
to
avoid
living
so
as
to
incur
blame
.
But
no
one
would
say
that
all
who
are
thus
delighted
change
their
habits
in
consequence
,
whereas
all
who
are
moved
by
the
majestic
style
act
accordingly
,
and
all
who
are
taught
by
the
quiet
style
know
or
believe
a
truth
which
they
were
previously
ignorant
of
.
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