How does Josiah Bunting use imagery in All Loves Excelling?

Imagery:

"This man a thousand miles away doesn't know me from Hillary Clinton, etcetera, and he'll write a letter full of specifics to someone maybe neither one of us knows, etcetera, and make it sound like he's writing about his own daughters."

"Her beauty of character, her talents in the making of music and in the understanding of poetry, her simplicity, and the goodness which 'puts ambition out of countenance,' these things surely entitle her to a place at your table.