 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1853 - 276 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye. informing every feature, and...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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 206 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...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
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...this, this is eloquence, or rather, it is something higher and greater than all eloquence, — it is action — noble, sublime, godlike action. — Webster.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been made to force,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action ! 2O. SINCERITY THE SOUL OF ELOQUENCE. — Goethe. Rorn, 1749 ; died, 1832. And twist into a thousand... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. In July, 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument. An appeal had been made to force,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and...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... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1854 - 412 pages
...tem P tible. Then, even genius feels reThen a t ' SUbdued> as if in the presence of higher qualities. every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right...his object; this, this is eloquence, or rather, it ii something greater than eloquence; it is action noble, sublime, and god-like action." 8. Rhetoric,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1854 - 560 pages
...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,—this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,—it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 554 pages
...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—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,... | |
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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 —... 
