 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 498 pages
...But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece and Rome were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. The... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 pages
...But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece and Rome were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. The... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...Greece and Rome," says Bolingbroke,* " were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...gaudy day» and remain dry the rest of the year." " Bolingb. Let. on the Spirit of Patriotism. H But the ancients, however intense their study or their... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ, to lead them by the nose. But elomust flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring,...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The true image of a free people, governed by a patriot king, is that of a patriarchal family, where... | |
 | Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ, to lead them by the nose. But elp* must Sow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The true image of a free people, governed by a patriot king, is that of a patriarchal family, where... | |
 | Political science - 1816 - 728 pages
...fool may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. Hut eloquence must flow like a stream that is'fcd by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little"...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." NATIVE ELOQUENCE. The following' Speech of the celebrated chri*tian Indian chief vcas communicated... | |
 | Francis Walker Gilmer - Orators - 1816 - 48 pages
...every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, andnot spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." NOTES. faj p. 19. The whole passage from Cicero runs thus : ' ac mea quitfem stnteutia nemo potent... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy matter on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." Sketches of d. Orators. THE REPUBLICAN COMPILER. . ^ '* " ' ''* i ' SCIENTIFIC. Of Oratory. WE come... | |
 | Francis Walker Gilmer - Economics - 1828 - 218 pages
...a nobler superiority than power, that any fool may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." APPENDIX. [Sec ptge 28.] Mr. PINKNEY lived long enough literally to fulfil this prediction. The powers... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...power that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ, to lead them by the nose. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. — Bolingbroke. CCXVI. 'Tis the curse of mighty minds oppress'd, To think what their state is, and... | |
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But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. 
