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 —... The National Quarterly Review - Page 312edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
| 1827 - 684 pages
...qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out -running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object— this, this is eloquence;... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| 1826 - 438 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| 1827 - 564 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| 1827 - 684 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and Eulogies on Adams and Jefferson. [ArntL. urging the whole man onward, right onward... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric ia vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object—this, this is eloquence... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is 25 eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, 30 right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conceptions, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to this object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Eveu genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
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