 | 1839 - 1092 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...more sublime topics of holy writ — the thoughts " That wrapt Isaiah'* hallow'd soul in fire." Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 648 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...more sublime topics of holy writ — the thoughts " That wrapt Isaiah's hallowed soul in fire." Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 224 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...the thoughts and the spirit " That touch'd Isaiah's hallow 'd lips with fire." Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times of a more electrical... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 488 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...of holy writ — the thoughts and the spirit " That touched Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire." Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 264 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...more sublime topics of holy writ — the thoughts "That wrapt Isaiah's hallowed soul in fire." Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...of Holy Writ— the thoughts and the spirit ' That louch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire.' " Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 pages
...Lord В., "was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree : but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the...Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire." Few passages can be in the oratory of modern times of a more electrical effect than the singularly felicitous and striking... | |
 | William Fox - 1851 - 678 pages
...degree ; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the inspiration which deep feeliug alone can breathe into spoken thought, chastened by...classical allusion, sometimes elevated by the more sublime topies of holy writ, — the thoughts ' That wrapt Isaiah's hallnw'd soul in fire ' " Few passages... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1853 - 168 pages
...Freemasons' Tavern, he consecrated to every humane and Christian cause " a persuasive and pathetic eloquence, chastened by a pure taste, varied by extensive information,...of Holy writ — the thoughts and the spirit 'That touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire." " * How much the individual advocacy of one so loved and... | |
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His eloquence was of the highest order. It was persuasive and pathetic in an eminent degree; but it was occasionally bold and impassioned, animated with the inspiration which deep feeling alone can breathe into spoken thought, chastened by a pure taste,... 
