The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, —... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 84by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out -running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...or rather it is something greater and higher than eloquence, tt is action, noble, snblune, god-like action, p. 213. — Webiter. [Arau, Of the figure... | |
| 1826 - 438 pages
...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...or rather it is something greater and higher than eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, go& like action. In July 1776, the controversy had passed... | |
| John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...or rather it is something greater and higher than eloquence, it is action, noble sublime, godlike action." While Mr. Adams was thus lending his whole... | |
| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...eloquent; then self-devotion is eloquent The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...or rather it is something greater and higher than eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, god-like action." In this passage, the speaker shows himself... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right otfward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...eloquent; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object—this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,—it... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conceptions, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to this object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something higher than all eloquence, it is... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, 30 right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence...eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. Webster. 55. The Pilgrims. ever bore the royal seal. Their banishment to Hol5 land was fortunate ;... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...eloquent; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, 30 right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher... | |
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