 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...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,...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...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. 6. Then, words nave lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...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,...vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER. 57 genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...their own lives, and the lives of their wives and children, and their country, hang on the decisions of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, anil all elaborate oratory contemptible. Ev.en genius itself, then feels rebuked and subdued, as in... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1841 - 316 pages
...ornaments an J studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetorici' is vain, and all elaborate' oratory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1842 - 610 pages
...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,...higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent : then self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...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. 5 . Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even... | |
 | 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...eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 lion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | 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...eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 pages
...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,...conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the hiuh purpose, of llrm resolve, the dauntless spirit, •peaking on the tongue, beaming from the rye,... | |
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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... 
