 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...  The Works - Página 131por Daniel Webster - 1854Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 páginas
...lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country hang on the decision of the houf . Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genins itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualitics. Then patriotism... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 páginas
...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...patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The-clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 páginas
...shock ami disgust men, when their own liven, and the fate of their wives, their cbildren, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Kven genins itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 páginas
...their own lives and the lives of their wives and children and their country hang on the decisions of an hour. Then words have lost their power; rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Then even genius feels rebuked and subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 páginas
...gain.—' Spon ta' ne ous, arising from internal feeling ; voluu tary ; springing up of itself, their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words...their power, rhetoric' is vain, and all elaborate 1 oratorj contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fat* of their wives, their children, and their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then words...and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius it;*lf then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of Higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent... | |
 | David Thomas - 1866 - 756 páginas
...ownlivea, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country hang on the decision of an hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptil>' Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in ti-1 presence of higher qualities.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 páginas
...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...rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. 9. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 páginas
...own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, harg on the decision of an hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaboiate oratory contemptible riven genius itself then feels rebuKed and subdued, as in Hie present... | |
 | 1869 - 186 páginas
...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...resolve, — the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongne, beaming from the eye. informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward,... | |
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