He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most…

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He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. ✨ Character of Bolingbroke; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919),
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