 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 376 pagina’s
...— ' he fell ' upon his neck, and kissed him.' Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with Nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Casuists may settle the point as they will... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 378 pagina’s
...— ' he fell ' upon his neck, and kissed him.' Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with Nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Casuists may settle the point as they will... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagina’s
...verbal magic brings upon the mind. SOUTH. Great is the power of eloquence ; but never is it so j;reat as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. STERNE. It [eloquence] comes, if it come... | |
 | 1875 - 562 pagina’s
...keep three, you will have to do it yourself. (j HEAT is the power of eloquence ; but never ii H so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child, strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. — Sttrne. I HOLD it indeed to be a sure... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...which verbal magic brings upon the mind. SOUTH. Great is the power of eloquence ; but never is it so not naturally insensible or ungenerous; and to the last we strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. STERNE. It [eloquence] comes, if it come... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 pagina’s
...words : ' He fell upon his neck and kissed him.' Great is the power of eloquence ; but nover is it so great as when it pleads along with Nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty and returned to it again with tears. Casuists may settle the point as they will... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pagina’s
...and fewer aim at. ffiloquencr. — Sterne. C\ REAT is the power of Eloquence : but never is it so vT great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. ffiminencr. — Addison. IT is a folly... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1885 - 386 pagina’s
...he fell upon his neck, and kissed him." Great is the power of eloquence ; but never is it so creat as when it pleads along with Nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Casuists may settle the point as they will;... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pagina’s
...sense Is better'd by the speaker's eloquence. King. Great is the power of eloquence: but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Sterne. Whene'er he speaks, Heaven, how... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagina’s
...the beauty of the mind is eloquence. — Cicero. Great is the power of eloquence ; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. — Sterne. Eloquence is relative. One... | |
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Great is the power of eloquence: but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears... 
