 | 1855 - 506 sivua
...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, rhetoric is Tain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius Itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 sivua
...gust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country hang q on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 sivua
...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...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | 1856 - 570 sivua
...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...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1856 - 276 sivua
...their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the dicision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 sivua
...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...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 sivua
...disgust men. when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, anll their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...then self-devotion is eloquent, The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic; the high purpose ; the firm resolve ; the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 sivua
...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...then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sivua
...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...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking... | |
 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1858 - 580 sivua
...and all the elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued,—as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism...then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking... | |
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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... 
