 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 —...  Brief Longhand: A System of Longhand Contractions, by Means of which the ... - Page 37by Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 97 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, 30 right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. 55. The Pilgrims. Webster. From the dark portals of the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...eye, informing every feature, 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,—it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON CXXXVI. Extract from a Discourse,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON CXXXVI. Extract from a Discourse, in Commemoration... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...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...something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, jioble, sublime, and godlike action." Example 5. "Conceive a man to be standing on the margin... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...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...something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...eye, informing every feature, 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, it is action, noble, sublime, god-like action." Page 84. During a part, however, of the period, over which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...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...something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. CXXXXIV. — JOHN ADAMS ADVOCATING THE DECLARATION Or INDEPENDENCE.*... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pages
...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...something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.... | |
 | 1832 - 504 pages
...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man on ward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence;...something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.' Such are some of the characteristics of Mr. Webster's eloquence... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...self-devotion is eloquent. speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the; whole man onward, right onward, to his...something greater and higher than all eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. — D. WEBSTER. • , LESSON LIX. The Education of the Poor.... | |
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