 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
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the...•whole man onward, right onward to his object — this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action,... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...oratory contemptible. Ev.en genius itself, then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion...higher than eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, and god-like .action." This was the kind of eloquence that characterized the Continental Congress,... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER. 57 genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urg. ing the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 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 b action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had... | |
 | John Campbell - Eromanga (Vanuatu) - 1842 - 512 pages
...of these things ; but they do claim for him, and they claim with boldness, the praise of possessing "the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt and brief speech well suffices for all the purposes of great statesmen, because a great statesman... | |
 | John Campbell - Eromanga (Vanuatu) - 1842 - 562 pages
...they claim with boldness, the praise of possrving " the clear conception, outrunning the deducting of logic, — the high purpose, the firm resolve,...dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from liie eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotion...is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 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...object — this, this is eloquence : or rather it h something greater and higher than -II eloquence, — it is action, nobie, sublime, godlike action.... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. 6. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...or rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action. — D. Webster. The above judicious... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...this, this is eloquence : or rather it is something 10 greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON... | |
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