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, —... The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster - Page 84by Daniel Webster - 1854 - 221 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outmnning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...— it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. PHILLIPS ON THE POLICY OF ENGLAND. BUT what has England done for Europe ? what has she achieved for... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! 20. SINCERITY THE SOUL OF ELOQUENCE. — Goethe. Bon, 1749; tied, 1832. How shall we learn to sway... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! 20. SINCERITY THE SOUL O1f ELOQUENCE. — Goetke. Born, 1749 ; died, 1832. And twist into a thousand... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 324 pages
...clear conception, outrunning the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the daunttess spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and ui'ging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it... | |
| Samuel P. Lyman - 1853 - 276 pages
...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action." Acting on this theory, Mr. Webster conceived it was not enough for him to have a good voice, a fluent... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853 - 206 pages
...eloquent; then self devotion is. eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...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
...eloquent. Then self-devotion is eloquent: the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action. — Webster.... | |
| 1854 - 576 pages
...eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! 2O. SINCERITY THE SOUL OF ELOQUENCE. — Goethe. Rorn, 1749 ; died, 1832. And twist into a thousand... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 pages
...eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...onward — right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence1 ! " At the end of the first two years, the young student wens home to pass the time of the... | |
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