 | 1805 - 590 pages
...feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irresistible flood of grief. The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence,...Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ diedlike a God! !" Never before did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such a... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...but.. ..no: the descent was as beautiful and sublime, as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with, which he broke the awful silence was a quotation from Rousseau j " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ like a God ! ! 1" I despair of gi v ing you... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...But....no : the descent was as beautiful and sublime, as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence,...: " Socrates died like a philosopher, " but Jesus Chirst, like a God ! I" I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short sentence,... | |
 | David Ramsay - Enslaved persons - 1809 - 642 pages
...broke the awful silence, -wcs a " quotation front Rousseau : " Socrates died like a philoso" phcr, but Jesus Christ like a God." I despair of giving"...manner of the " man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never " before did I completely um!fcrstand what Demosthenes meant •'' by laying... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with which he broke the awful sf*lence, was a quotation from Rousseau : " Socrates died like...manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before, did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1812 - 408 pages
...no : the descent was as beautiful and sublime as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic ! ' The first sentence, with which he broke the awful...manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1813 - 204 pages
...— no: the descent was as beautiful and sublime, as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence, with which he broke the awful...manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before, did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...— no: the descent was as beantiful and sublime as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic ! The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence, was a quotation from Rousseuu : " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ like a God !" I despair of giving you... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
...solemnity and dignity of his subject, or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall. Hut—no: the descent was as beautiful and sublime, as the elevation...manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before, did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...— no : the descent was as beautiful and sublime as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence,...despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by thisshortsentence.unlessyou could perfectly conceive the whole mannerofthe man as well as the peculiar... | |
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I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short sentence, unless you could perfectly conceive the whole manner of the man as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before did I completely understand what Demosthenes... 
