 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 406 pagine
...gifts. He pleased himself that he had been bred from infancy, as it were, in the public eye ; and he looked forward to the debates of the senate on great...flowers, and all his reading came up to him as he talked. Emerson never found companions who made good his brothers to him, but he began now to make acquaintance... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 230 pagine
...he was rather an orator and a man of action than a writer ; " he looked forward,'' says Emerson, " to the debates of the senate on great political questions,...and the elegance of his discourse equally excellent. His memory was a garland of immortal flowers, and all his reading came up to him as he talked." "After... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1903 - 458 pagine
...eye, and he looked forward to the debates in the Senate on great political questions as to his fit and native element. And with reason, for in extempore...and the elegance of his discourse equally excellent. Familiar as I was with his powers, when a year ago I first heard him take part in a debate, he surprised... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1903 - 466 pagine
...He spoke so well that he was impatient of writing as not being a fit medium for him. I never shall hear such speaking as his, for his memory was a garden...flowers, and all his reading came up to him as he talked, to clear, elevate and decorate the subject of his present thought. But I shall never have done describing,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1939 - 660 pagine
...gifts. He pleased himself that he had been bred from infancy, as it were, in the public eye; and he looked forward to the debates of the senate on great political questions as to his fit and native element. And with reason, for in extempore debate his speech was music, and the precision... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1999 - 484 pagine
...eye; and he looked forward to the debates of the senate on great political questions as to his fit and native element. And with reason, for in extempore...and the elegance of his discourse equally excellent. Familiar as I was with his powers, when a year ago I first heard him take part in a debate, he surprised... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1999 - 484 pagine
...gifts. He pleased himself that he had been bred from infancy, as it were, in the public eye; and he looked forward to the debates of the senate on great political questions as to his fit and native element. And with reason, for in extempore debate his speech was music, and the precision... | |
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... and native element. And with reason, for in extempore debate his speech was music, and the precision the flow and the elegance of his discourse equally excellent. Familiar as I was with his powers, when a year ago I first heard him take part in a... 