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
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...the eye, informing every feature, urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object;—this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all elo quence : it is action : noble, sublime, god-like action. Webster. Sentence 1st.—This is a mixed... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Elocution - 1851 - 370 pages
...slight change in the construction of the sentence : eg The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic; the high purpose ; the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking ->n the tongue, Leaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the wh Je man onward, right... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 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 ! 20. SINCERITY THE SOUL OF ELOQUENCE. — Goethe. Bon, 1749; tied, 1832. How shall... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The elear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! 20. SINCERITY THE SOUL OF ELOQUENCE. — Goethe. Born, 1749; died, 1832. And twist... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853
...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. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been... | |
| Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 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. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been... | |
| Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 206 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 aU eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...patriotism is eloquent. Then self-devotion is eloquent: the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action. — Webster.... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 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. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 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. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been... | |
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