, or
in which the sound is prominent, while expressing the same thought or
idea. In the following he plays upon like letters in a wonderful manner.
I will put the words in italics:

_Paine._

"_Perhaps_ the sentiments contained in the
_following pages_, are not yet _sufficiently
fashionable_ to _procure_ them general _favor_; a
long habit of not _thinking_ a _thing wrong_ gives
it a _superficial appearance_ of being _right_,
and _raises_, at _first_, a _formidable_ out_cry_
in _defense_ of _custom_. But the _tumult soon
subsides_. _Time makes more converts_ than
reason."--C. S., Introd.

_Junius._

"_Prejudices_ and _passions_ have, sometimes,
_carried_ it to a _criminal_ length, and whatever
_foreigners may imagine_, we know that Englishmen
have erred as _much_ in a _mistaken_ zeal _for
particular persons_ and _families_ as they ever
_did_ in _defense_ of what _they thought_ most
_dear_ and _interesting_ to _themselves_."--Let.
1.

I have not gone out of my way for the above examples. Thousands of just
such examples may be taken from both. This, together with the even
length of the members of the period, is what produces the rythm and
harmony of Mr. Paine's style, and which I have never seen paralleled,
except in Junius. I have compared it with a hundred authors, and never
have I found any thing like it. But Junius is in no respect unlike Mr.
Paine. Had a perfect portrait been painted of Mr. Paine, at the time he
wrote his Common Sense, and another at the time Junius wrote his
Letters, the two portraits could not have more resembled each other than
does the style of Junius resemble that of Mr. Paine. And this is what
can not be imitated, for it arises out of the constitution of the mind,
just like poetry or music; and the poet and musician are born, not made.

Mr. Paine and Junius never use poetry, unless it be a line at the head
of a piece. And they both ridicule the use of it in prose composition.

_Paine._

"I can consider Mr. Burke's book in scarcely any
other light than a dramatic performance, and he
must, I think, have considered it in the same
light himself by the _poetical_ liberties he has
taken of omitting some facts, distorting others,
and making the machinery bend to produce a stage
effect