"It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others, superior even to what despotism itself can bestow; since by the latter the more ignoble part, only the body and its members, are enslaved; whereas, from the dominion of the former, nothing is exempted, neither judgment nor affection, not even the inmost recesses, the most latent movements of the soul. What opposition is he not prepared to conquer, on whose arms reason hath conferred solidity and weight, and passion such a sharpness as enables them, in defiance of every obstruction, to open a speedy passage to the heart?"
The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1776).<br>
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<u>The Philosophy of Rhetoric. By George Campbell</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T145750">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;