 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 pages
...self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking on the tongue,...onward — right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence1 ! " At the end of the first two years, the young student wens home to pass the time of the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 pages
...self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 464 pages
...self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been made to force, and opposing... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1903 - 396 pages
...self-devotion is eloquent The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godj like action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument An appeal had been... | |
 | George Washington Hoss - 1903 - 160 pages
...best. He says : " The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...onward to his object — this, this is eloquence." This, it will be seen, is complex, consisting of two elements, namely, conditions and manifestations.... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...body awake. It is the quality referred to by Webster when he speaks of " the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...the whole man onward, right onward to his object." To be thus urged onward, the whole man wide awake, is an element, or an accompaniment, of effective... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - 1903 - 190 pages
...is eloquent. The clear conception, 'outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence... | |
 | H. C. Beauchamp - 1903 - 64 pages
...dauntless spirit, speaking on ;>ihc tongue, beaming- in the eye, informing every feature, andurgJjing the whole man onward, right onward to his object —...eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher all eloquence— it is action, noble, sublime, God-like action. DANIEL WEBSTEK. WIVES OF BRJXOM. You... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 pages
...is eloquent. " The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than eloquence;... | |
 | John Calvin Reed - 1905 - 510 pages
...spontaneous original, native force. . . . Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. . . . This, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something...— it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action." The remaining facts of this remarkable session, which show that Toombs and not Calhoun was the apostle... | |
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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 —... 
