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... American Quarterly Review - Page 611827Full view - About this book
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,—this—is eloquence.— Webster. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments...rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 0SX THK SOUL'S DEFIAXCB. I laid—to Sorrow 1 ! awful storm, Thai beat against my breast,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The unices taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied...rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate orutory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original native force. The graces...lives and the fate of their wives, their children, anc their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is... | |
| Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 pages
...to do homage to faction, o^er. tear FHBV -j««oiiti (.-.aacKjn^, CO ,t .* «_t -jiteiLitrniai and on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out... | |
| Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with — ' • • i*' • f spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught...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 lost... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...earth, or the barstm* forth ot volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original native force. The 'races taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men. when their own ¿ves, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, haar on the decision of the... | |
| Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...earth, or the bursting forth "i volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, nati\e force. The Braces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock ajid disgust men. when their own lives, and the late of their wives, their children, and their country,... | |
| Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces...rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent ; then selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments...and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 6. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the... | |
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