 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urgins the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. 6. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of...higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON CXXVI. The Perfect Orator. — SHERIDAN. 1. IMAGINE to yourselves a... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of...•whole man onward, right onward to his object — this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action,... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of...or rather, it is something greater and higher than eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, and god-like .action." This was the kind of eloquence that... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urg. ing the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it... | |
 | 1840 - 554 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it b action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, and godlike action." Example 4, " Conceive n man to be standing on the margin of this green... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1842 - 610 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent : then self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...or rather, it is something greater and higher than eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action." The personal appearance and manners of... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...of these things ; but they do claim for him, and they claim with boldness, the praise of possessing "the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt and brief speech well suffices for all the purposes of great statesmen, because a great statesman... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pages
...they claim with boldness, the praise of possrving " the clear conception, outrunning the deducting of logic, — the high purpose, the firm resolve,...dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from liie eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt... | |
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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 —... 
