 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 lost their...  The National Quarterly Review - Page 2981862Full view - About this book
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...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...genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in thn presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...own lives, and the lives of their wives and children, and their country, hang on the decision of an hour. Then, words have lost their power; rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Then, even genius feels rebuked and subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 612 pages
...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...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...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...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outmnning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 pages
...shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and then- country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...studied contrivajjces 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 8 hour. Then, words have lost their power ; rhetoric is vain; and all elaborate oratory contemptible.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...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...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of an hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfderotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deduction of logic, the high purpose,... | |
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