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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose - Page 406
by James Baldwin - 1883
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out -running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services ..., Volume 45, Issue 5

Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those ...

1826 - 438 pages
...or the bursting forth of vokanic fir^s, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taugiit in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own live?, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang ou the decision of the...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. . The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 8

John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in schools the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances...higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent, then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 1

American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...the bursting forth of volcanic lie;-, •with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher 1827.] Eulogies on Jefferson and Adams. 67 qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion...
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Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended ...

Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...; from out and break. of volcanic fires with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conceptions, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments,and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust...higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances...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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