... if writing lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men ...
... if writing lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men ...
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when ... the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic so that man, at that instant ... with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
... the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take ... a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me....
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room....
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
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