 | John Epy Lovell - 1855 - 520 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,...is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clcai conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | 1855 - 506 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,...hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is Tain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius Itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as... | |
 | 1856 - 570 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...self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 pages
...speech, shock and disgust men. when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, anll their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then,...the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking from the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...ornaments, and stndied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country...the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their Eawer, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible, ven genins itself then feels rebnked... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of rhetoric, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...Then words have lost their power ; rhetoric is vain ; all, all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, in the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...the decision of the hour. Then, words Lave lost their power, rhetoric' is vain, and all elaborate 3 oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels...and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Then, patriotism1 is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, 4 out-running... | |
 | 1860 - 836 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...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. The clear conception outrunning the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...itself. their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, word* have lost their power, rhetoric1 is vain, and all elaborate' oratory contemptible....and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Then, patriotism1 is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,4 out-running... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...The graces taught anee»of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of th r wives, their children, and their country, hang on...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunmiig the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
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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... 
