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
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...object — this, this is eloquence : or rather it h something greater and higher than -II eloquence, — it is action, nobie, sublime, godlike action.... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...this, this is eloquence : or rather it is something 10 greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 tion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,—this, this is eloquence : or rather it is something 10 greater and higher than all eloquence,—it... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the 2 14 UNITED STATES SPEAKER. whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear concep5 lion, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, ftnd urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence: or rather... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 564 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, — the high purpose, — the firm resolve,...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... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. WEBSTER. 143. THE BEST OF CLASSICS. THERE is a classic, the best the world has ever... | |
| Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve.the dauntless spirit, speakmg on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every...than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. LESSON CXXVI. / 2. £ The Perfect Orator. — SHERIDAN. 1. IMAGINE to yourselves a... | |
| Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 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...whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this is eloquence. LESSON LXXII. - OUR NATIVE LAND. WE come, a youthful, happy band, Rejoicing in our native... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the hi^h purpose, of firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the...and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,—this—is eloquence.— Webster. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and... | |
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