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 —... A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 251by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out -running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...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... | |
| Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
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| 1826 - 438 pages
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| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
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| John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
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| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...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... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
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| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
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