 | 1827 - 590 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a {rift, is not a temporary flame — burning bright for a while, and then expiring ; giving place to returning darkness, ft is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the common mass... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent beat, as well as radi212 1827.] 213 an- light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent 72 heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind; so that when... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It ia rather a spark of fervent 72 heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the common mass... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the commonmass of human mind ; so that when it glimmers, in its owjj decay, and finally goes out in death,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...Heaven vouchsafe? so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then 15 expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is...light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mm<l ; so that, whp.n it glimmers, in its own decay, and finally goes out in death, no night follows... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle dba-"'nnmon mass of human mmd ; so that when it ghmmers in Its own decay, and finally goes out in death,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...with power to enkindle the common masS of human mind; go that when it glimmers, in its own decay, and finally goes out in death, no night follows, but it... | |
 | United States. 32d Cong., 2d sess., 1852-1853 - 1853 - 104 pages
...intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place...mind ; so that when it glimmers in its own decay, pud finally goes out in death, no night follows, but it leaves the world all light, all on fire, from... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning brightly for a while, and then giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...it glimmers in its own decay, and finally goes out incfeath, no night follows, but it leaves'the world all light, all on fire, from the potent contact... | |
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A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, — when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, — is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat,... 
