 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
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. 7. " The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...this is eloquence, or rather, it is something greater than eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, and god-like action." 8. Rhetoric, as taught in our... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the...this is eloquence, or rather, it is something greater than eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, and god-like action." Rhetoric, as taught in our seminaries,... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 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 is eloquent. The clear conception, out running the de.ductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 514 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...eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, god-like action." This clearness, freshness, and force, which Mr. Webster so much valued, he had acquired by a perpetual... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man ; in the subject ; and in the occasion. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking from the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man ; in the subject; and in the occasion. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking from the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man; in the subject; and in the occasion. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking from the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man ; in the subject ; and in the occasion. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking from the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...their power ; rhetoric is vain; and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself, 10 higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent: then, selfdevotion...deductions of logic ; the high purpose ; the firm resolve; 9 then, feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of 11 the dauntless spirit, speaking from the... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Elocution - 1851 - 370 pages
...employed in the following cases : I. Before a slight change in the construction of the sentence : eg The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking ->n the tongue, Leaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the wh Je man onward, right... | |
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