 ... nevertheless your stolen jewel, which you wanted him to find you, is not forthcoming. Often by some winged word, winged as the thunderbolt is, of a Luther, a Napoleon, a Goethe, shall we see the difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ;...  The Book of Gems: A Gift for All Seasons - Page 1481854 - 312 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 412 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him. Again, in the difference between Oratory and Rhetoric, as indeed everywhere... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 426 pages
...proved ; feelings as well as facts. Love and passion and fear laugh at demonstration. " Logic," says one, " is good, but not the best. The irrefragable...emotion, and emotion elicits thought. It has been THE STUDIES OP AN ORATOR. 119 well remarked of the great English dramatist, that he has been true to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him. Again in the difference between Oratory and Rhetoric, as indeed everywhere... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him." The truth is, the Papal court, with all its indices expurgatorii, its preventions,... | |
 | 1847 - 782 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him." The truth is, the Papal court, with all its indices expurgatorii, its preventions,... | |
 | 1847 - 776 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him." The truth is, the Papal court, with all its indices expurgatorii, its preventions,... | |
 | Frederick A. Moore - 1850 - 330 pages
...proved ; feelings, as well as facts. Love, and passion, and fear laugh at demonstration. " Logic," says one, " is good, but not the best. The irrefragable...to nature, in placing the " greater number of his profoundost maxims and general truths, both political and moral, not in the mouths of men at ease,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him. Again in the difference between Oratory and Rhetoric, as indeed everywhere... | |
 | Christmas Evans - 1859 - 328 pages
...and its secret laid bare; while the irrefragable, with all his logical roots, hews at it, and bovers round it, and finds it on all sides too hard for him." Mr. Evans had feeling as well as fancy. This in a preacher is even more important than the other. Here,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 422 pages
...difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare ; while the Irrefragable, with all his logical tools, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him. Again, in the difference between Oratory and Rhetoric, as indeed everywhere... | |
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