 | Criticism - 1853 - 666 pages
...were filled with tears, his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an...attachment to the College. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother, and all the trials and privations through... | |
 | Rufus Choate - Statesmen - 1853 - 116 pages
...were filled with tears, his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an...attachment to the College. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother, and all the trials and privations through... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself, wliich might save him from •n unmanly burst of feeling. I will not attempt to give...attachment to the college. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother, and all the trials and privations through... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...pres&ed in the argument alluded to." There are those who are still of the opinion that Wirt, if indeed he him from an unmanly burst of feeling, I will not attempt...in which he went on to speak of his attachment to tho college ; the whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 526 pages
...were filled with tears, his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself, which might save him from an...the few broken words of tenderness in which he went tin tc speak of his attachment to the college. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 510 pages
...were filled with tears, his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself, which might save him from an...unmanly burst of feeling. I will not attempt to give you 190 WEBSTER AND HIS MASTER-PIECES. the few broken words of tenderness in which he went on to speak... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...argument alluded to." There are those who are still of the opinion that Wirt, if indeed he him from uu unmanly burst of feeling. I will not attempt to give you the few brukeu wordy of tenderness in which he went on to speak of his attachment to the college ; the whole... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Education - 1860 - 352 pages
...his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost, simply to gain that mastery over himselt which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling....attachment to the college. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother, and all the trials and privations through... | |
 | Rufus Choate - United States - 1862 - 596 pages
...were filled with tears, his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an...attachment to the College. The whole seemed to be mingled throughout with the recollections of father, mother, brother, and all the trials and privations through... | |
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Here the feelings which he had thus far succeeded in keeping down broke forth. His lips quivered ; his firm cheeks trembled with emotion ; his eyes were filled with tears ; his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery... 
