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" 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 —... "
American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers which Illustrate the ... - Page 162
1881 - 674 pages
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out -running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking...
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A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services ..., Volume 45, Issue 5

Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July 1776, the controversy had passed the...
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A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those ...

1826 - 438 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...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...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed...
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 8

John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then...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...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...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,...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...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...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...rhetoric ia vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...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...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and Eulogies on Adams and Jefferson. [ArntL. urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object —...
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