 | John Reinder Pelsma - 1918 - 516 ページ
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 3. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments...this, this is eloquence, or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime, God-like action. ESSAY— EXPOSITION... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1918 - 204 ページ
...great essential of oratory, which thought Daniel Webster echoed in the following burning words : " The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...this, this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action." All persons... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 ページ
...By this is meant having the body awake. It is the quality referred to by Webster when he speaks of "the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...the whole man onward, right onward to his object." True physical earnestness is something more than physical energy. Such energy must be held in proper... | |
 | Leonard G. Nattkemper, George Wharton James - 1919 - 776 ページ
...and their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is in vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even...this, this is eloquence; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence : it is action, — noble, sublime, God-like action. they had... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 ページ
...schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their lives, and the fate of their wives, their children,...this, this is eloquence; or rather, it is something greater and higher than eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. I. The Theme A... | |
 | Mary Lucile Welty - 1926 - 148 ページ
...Charles Coppens - The Art of Oratorical Composition T> 12 ll - Hepburn - Manual of Rhetoric p. 23l Then patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion is...this, this is eloquence, or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence; it is action, noble, sublime, God-like action." l2 By eloquence... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 ページ
...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native...this, this is eloquence; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. NATURE PROCLAIMS... | |
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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... 
