| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when thoir own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country...hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is rain, aud all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...ornaments and stndicd 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 houf . Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 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,...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The-clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...of speech, shock ami disgust men, when their own liven, and the fate of their wives, their cbildren, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour....rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Kven genins itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...their own lives and the lives of their wives and children and their country hang on the decisions 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...secure ; gain.—' Spon ta' ne ous, arising from internal feeling ; voluu tary ; springing up of itself, their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then,...their power, rhetoric' is vain, and all elaborate 1 oratorj contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher... | |
| Daniel Parish Kidder - 1864 - 522 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 an hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is 'vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fat* of their wives, their children, and their country...and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius it;*lf then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of Higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent... | |
| David Thomas - 1866 - 756 pages
...ornaments and studied coctrivances of speech shock and disgust men when their ownlivea, 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 is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptil>'... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 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. 9. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,... | |
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