 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 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...genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the pres-^ ence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 5 . Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain,...elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent : then,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fats of their wives, 20 their children, and their country, hang on the decision...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 lion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the hiuh purpose,... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, — the high purpose,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...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...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, " Rage on!... | |
 | Salem Town - 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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
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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... 
