| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 páginas
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanick fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments...and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 5. Then, words have lost their power, rhetorick is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 páginas
...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their pwn lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of... | |
| Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 páginas
...graces taught in the schools, the costly ornament* and studied contrivances of speech, shock ailfl disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of...wives, their children, and their country, hang on Uie decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric^ is vain, and all elaborate'... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 páginas
...all may aspire after it,—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their i children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power,... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a mountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic...shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fete of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...after it— they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the out-breaking of a mountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic...shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fete of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock... | |
| L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 páginas
...all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in schools, the courtly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men when their... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 páginas
...all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 páginas
...all may aspire after it : they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock... | |
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