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...their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER. 57 genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urg. ing the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it...

...decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object, — this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater...

...of these things ; but they do claim for him, and they claim with boldness, the praise of possessing "the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt and brief speech well suffices for all the purposes of...

...decision of an hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked...is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deduction of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue,...

...they claim with boldness, the praise of possrving " the clear conception, outrunning the deducting of logic, — the high purpose, the firm resolve,...dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from liie eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object."* Blunt...

...decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked...informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence : or rather it h something greater and...

...have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...patriotism is eloquent : then, self-devotion is eloquent. 6. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...

...decision of an hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the pres-^ ence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, selfdevotion is eloquent. The...

...decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked...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...