Living Orators in AmericaBaker and Scribner, 1849 - 462 страници |
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... becomes the efficient servant of what he himself created ; as Homer , at the very thresh- old of his epic , proclaims himself only the herald of his Zeus , of whose almighty will he is the free and rejoicing bard . Mr. Webster early won ...
... becomes the efficient servant of what he himself created ; as Homer , at the very thresh- old of his epic , proclaims himself only the herald of his Zeus , of whose almighty will he is the free and rejoicing bard . Mr. Webster early won ...
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... become warmed and animated . His elocution as well as his reasoning then is often magnificent , presenting alto- gether his best and most powerful manner . Under ordinary circumstances , Mr. Webster may truly say , “ 56 LIVING ORATORS ...
... become warmed and animated . His elocution as well as his reasoning then is often magnificent , presenting alto- gether his best and most powerful manner . Under ordinary circumstances , Mr. Webster may truly say , “ 56 LIVING ORATORS ...
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... becomes the more serenely self - possessed , and , in the unfoldings of native grandeur , instinctively assumes a look of calm , unalterable energy , " above all pain , all passion , and all pride . " Such was his appearance at the ...
... becomes the more serenely self - possessed , and , in the unfoldings of native grandeur , instinctively assumes a look of calm , unalterable energy , " above all pain , all passion , and all pride . " Such was his appearance at the ...
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... becomes obsolete , the chasteness of its form , and substance of im- mortal thought can never decay . His ordinary delivery is not the rushing torrent of impetuous declamation , foaming and upturning everything in its course , but the ...
... becomes obsolete , the chasteness of its form , and substance of im- mortal thought can never decay . His ordinary delivery is not the rushing torrent of impetuous declamation , foaming and upturning everything in its course , but the ...
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... convulsed ; but in all this variety of exhilaration or suffering , there is a power of self - control manifest and supreme . Even basis of his argument ; when passion or anguish becomes too big for utterance the DANIEL WEBSTER . 59.
... convulsed ; but in all this variety of exhilaration or suffering , there is a power of self - control manifest and supreme . Even basis of his argument ; when passion or anguish becomes too big for utterance the DANIEL WEBSTER . 59.
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Страница 18 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Страница 43 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
Страница 461 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Страница 145 - That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution, submitted on the part of said State to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States...
Страница 52 - I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. /VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.
Страница 7 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Страница 52 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Страница 52 - You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Страница 145 - And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly as soon as may be to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said University.
Страница 10 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.