 | 1827 - 684 էջ
...vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of hie miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 էջ
...vouchafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died ; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | 1826 - 438 էջ
...vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died ; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | 1827 - 564 էջ
...vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | 1827 - 654 էջ
...vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit Bacon died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | 1827 - 590 էջ
...temporary flame — burning bright for a while, and then expiring ; giving place to returning darkness, ft is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as radiant...on fire from the potent contact of its own spirit.' Mr Felix Grundy, at Nashville, Tennessee, commenced with this novel truth. ' Fellow Citizens, this... | |
 | 1827 - 684 էջ
...place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent beat, as well as radi212 1827.] 213 an- light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 էջ
...a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent 72 heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. I!.!- nti died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 էջ
...burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving plaee to returning darkness. It is rather a epark of fervent heat, as well as radiant light, with power...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died ; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 էջ
...vouchsafes so rare a gill, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a...on fire, from the potent contact of its own spirit. Bacon died; but the human understanding, roused, by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception... | |
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A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning brightly for a while, and then giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as... 
