 | William Martin - 1838 - Počet stránok 368
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - Počet stránok 346
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 6. Then, words nave lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - Počet stránok 108
...ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER. 57 genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - Počet stránok 364
...their own lives, and the lives of their wives and children, and their country, hang on the decisions of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, anil all elaborate oratory contemptible. Ev.en genius itself, then feels rebuked and subdued, as in... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1841 - Počet stránok 316
...ornaments an J studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetorici' is vain, and all elaborate' oratory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1842 - Počet stránok 610
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent : then self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - Počet stránok 324
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 5 . Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - Počet stránok 444
...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fats of their wives, 20 their children, and their country, hang on the decision...eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 lion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - Počet stránok 444
...studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even...eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Počet stránok 398
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives. and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the hiuh purpose, of llrm resolve, the dauntless spirit, •peaking on the tongue, beaming from the rye,... | |
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The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have... 
