 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, —...  American Quarterly Review - Page 621827Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Tbeu, patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotiou is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the...the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every featuie, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion...or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. CXXXXIV. — JOHN ADAMS ADVOCATING THE... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion...or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion...informing every feature, and urging the whole man on ward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion...The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic,'1 the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking on the tongue, beaming from... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion....whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this is eloquence. D. Webster. SECTION, II. , , . i. :-. •• The Perfect Orator. 1. IMAGINE to yourselves... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion...or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, — noble, sublime, godlike action." Nothing can well be finer than the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...in the presence of higher qualities. Then,patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing...or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. — D. WEBSTER. • , LESSON LIX. The... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even Genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent. Then self-devotion...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action." Page 38.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even Genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent. Then self-devotion...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action." Page 38.... | |
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