 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...men, when their own live?, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang ou the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | 1827 - 544 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | 1827 - 654 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher 1827.] Eulogies on Jefferson and Adams. 67 qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion... | |
 | 1827 - 684 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conceptions, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, 20 their children, and their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost...presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is 25 eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric ia vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and the country, hang on their decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power,...presence of higher qualities. Then) patriotism is e|-. oqnent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic,... | |
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The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate of their wives, their children and their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their... 
