The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object —... Webster and His Master-pieces - Page 204by Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854Full view - About this book
| Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...lost their newer, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itseff then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out running the deductions of logic, the high purpose^the firm resolve^ the dauntless spirit^ speaking... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feeli tetniked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities,...then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, Gut-runnine the deductions of logic, the hiph purpose, or firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfdevotion is...conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the hi^h purpose, of firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye,... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion U eloquent. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech,... | |
| Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1846 - 334 pages
...subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward — right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something greater... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 6. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather, it is something greater... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...eloquent. \ The clear conception, V outrunning the deductions of logic, \ the high purpose, \ thej?rm resolve, \ the dauntless spirit, \ speaking on the...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, \ right onward to his object — this, THIS is eloquence. examples of emphatic subject.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1847 - 592 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence : or rather it is something greater... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Then, even genius feels rebuked and subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. 7. " The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic ; the high purpose, the firm resolve,... | |
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