 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 —...  American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers which Illustrate the ... - Pagina 1621881 - 674 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1854 - 560 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic,—the high purpose,—the firm resolve,—the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July 1776 the controversy had passed... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1901 - 776 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...object — this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! " It is true,... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pagini
...the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original native force. . . . The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action." I. GENERAL EXERCISES 1. Show that the conditions... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1902 - 404 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1902 - 296 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action:" spirit, powerfully wrought upon by an... | |
 | Cora Marsland - 1902 - 270 pagini
...rhetoric is vain; and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose of firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every... | |
 | Cora Marsland - 1902 - 272 pagini
...self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose of firm -resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the...and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,—this is eloquence; or, rather, is something greater and higher than all eloquence. It is... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 464 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1903 - 386 pagini
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed... | |
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