 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized worid. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning brightly for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized world. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, r Da brightly for a while, and then giving place to returning darkness. Jt is rather a spark of fervent... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 650 pages
...when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, buming brightly for a while, and then giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...fervent heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkJndle the common mass of human mind; so that when it glimmers in its own decay, and finally goes... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - Judges - 1881 - 570 pages
...which he lived, Daniel Webster, ' that a superior and commanding human intellect, a truly yreat man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized world. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - United States - 1887 - 252 pages
...Webster's great passage in his eulogy on Jefferson and Adams : " A superior and commanding human intellect, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame burning brightly for a while and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness ; it is rather a spark of... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1893 - 108 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized world. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1893 - 108 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized world. A superior and commanding human inte^ct, a truly great man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
 | Daniel Webster - HISTORY - 1895 - 202 pages
...country, but throughout the civilized world. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Public land sales - 1898 - 206 pages
...try, but throughout the civilized world, A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when 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 spark of fervent... | |
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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 brightly for a while, and then giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as... 
