 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 pagina’s
...that occupation upon the river Thames." DINNER-TABLE CONVERSATION. " Eloquence," says Bolingbroke, " must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." So must... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
...gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed...'some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece and Rome were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. The... | |
 | Franz Theremin - 1867 - 228 pagina’s
...a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every "knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 pagina’s
...gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pagina’s
...But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece and Rome were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. The... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.), Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1870 - 318 pagina’s
...gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece and Rome were the statesmen and ministers of those commonwealths. The... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 88 pagina’s
...description, or if he did he must have sought the kind so well described by Bolingbroke when he said : " Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy stream on some gaudy day and remain dry for the rest of the year." Those who were invited to his home... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1870 - 396 pagina’s
...gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout SUBJECTS FOR INVENTION. 345 forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 98 pagina’s
...description, or if he did he must have sought the kind so well described by Bolingbroke when he said : "Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant srn-ing, and not spout Corl.ha littlo frothy stream on some gaudy day and remain dry for the rest of... | |
 | Franz Theremin - 1872 - 228 pagina’s
...gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece... | |
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But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. 
