"Marville says, that the famous orators in the pulpit and at the bar, of his time, used to read the finest passages of the poets, to germinate those seeds of eloquence which nature had scattered in their souls."
A Dissertation on Anecdotes
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1793).<br>
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<u>A Dissertation on Anecdotes; by the Author of Curiosities of Literature.</u> (London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, and J. Murray, 1793). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T109208">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004871393.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;