 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...a practice of itself sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feeling of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected....delivering stale indignation and fervour of a week old, running over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text, and so affected at a preconcerted... | |
 | 1876 - 826 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 profitably affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1876 - 828 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 profitably affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1876 - 854 pages
...every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be profitably affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passion written out in fair text; reading... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1876 - 530 pages
...be questioned whether either party deeply feels the reality of preaching. Sydney Smith's inquiry, " What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ? " is not only a keen sarcasm, but contains an unanswerable argument. He who... | |
 | William Swinton - 1877 - 278 pages
...the causes which impel them to the separation. ». 1. I do not admire such books as he writes.* 2. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected.t 3. That man has been from time immemorial a right-handed animal is beyond dispute.t 4. He... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 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 powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour... | |
 | 1878 - 832 pages
...practice of reading is sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feeling of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected....of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passion written out in German text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 476 pages
...Smith asks: " What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor ef a week old: turning over whole pages of violent passions,...tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 464 pages
...— better fitted to stifle every germ of eloquence, — cannot be imagined. As Sydney Smith asks: "What can be more 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... | |
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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. 
