 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | 1826 - 438 str.
...men, when their own live?, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang ou the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 362 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | 1827 - 544 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | 1827 - 654 str.
...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...rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher 1827.] Eulogies on Jefferson and Adams. 67 qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion... | |
 | 1827 - 684 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conceptions, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 str.
...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...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 str.
...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, 20 their children, and their country hang on the decision of...presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is 25 eloquent; then, self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 str.
...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...hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric ia vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued,... | |
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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 lost their... 
