 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 lost their power, rhetoric1' is vain, and all elaborate' oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked,... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...contrivances of speech, shock ami disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, tlu?ir children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric'0 is vain, and all elaborate0 oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 5. Then, words have lost their power, rhetorick is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even...and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. speaking on the tongue, beaming from... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent. Then self-devotion is eloquent : the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on Uie decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their...and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 4. Theitj patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their pwn lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision...elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feelm rebuked, and subdued', as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent;... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, — the high purpose,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
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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 lost their... 
