 | William Russell - 1853 - 432 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every genn of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in goodly text ; reading... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 pages
...powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent...tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected by a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed further?... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading, — a practice of itself sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...powerfully affected. What can he more ludierous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent...reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurricd hy the ardor of his mind ; and so afleeted at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unahle... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1858 - 586 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading... | |
 | 1858 - 624 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected. What indeed can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor of a week old;... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully unvoted. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a... | |
 | William Russell - 1861 - 448 pages
...dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in goodly text ; reading... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further ?" True, " it is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected." But nature is always fresh, and he who reproduces nature will always afiect. Macready never stabbed... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1864 - 522 pages
...speaking to reading; • practice which of itself is sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in goodly text ; reading... | |
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Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected. 
