 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, —...  A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 231by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 252 lehteFull view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 lehte
...subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Tbeu, patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotiou is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the...the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every featuie, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 lehte
...feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. CXXXXIV. — JOHN ADAMS ADVOCATING THE DECLARATION Or INDEPENDENCE.*... | |
 | 1832 - 478 lehte
...then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An... | |
 | 1832 - 504 lehte
...then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...informing every feature, and urging the whole man on ward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 lehte
...eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic,'1 the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...whole man onward, right onward to his object,— this is eloquence. D. Webster. SECTION JI. The Perfect Orator. 1. IMAGINE to yourselves a Demosthenes, addressing... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 lehte
...feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,....whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this is eloquence. D. Webster. SECTION, II. , , . i. :-. •• The Perfect Orator. 1. IMAGINE to yourselves... | |
 | 1834 - 614 lehte
...feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, — noble, sublime, godlike action." Nothing can well be finer than the mode in which this general... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 lehte
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then,patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing...greater and higher than all eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. — D. WEBSTER. • , LESSON LIX. The Education of the Poor. 1. THE... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 292 lehte
...feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...rather, it is something greater and higher than all elo quence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON CXXXVI. Extract from a Discourse,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 lehte
...then feels rebuked and subdued as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent. Then self-devotion is eloquent : the clear conception,...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action." Page 38.... | |
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