 | Patriotism - 1892 - 440 pages
...with a feeling of awe. It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it is not from any human lips, that that strain of eloquence...to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around. The potent speaker stands motionless before them. It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1893 - 640 pages
...of the orator. The position and the occasion were the height of the moral sublime. Said Mr. Webster, "It is not from my lips, it could not be from any...to the sublime structure, the audience burst into long and loud applause, and it was some moments before the speaker could go on with the address. I... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument - 1894 - 128 pages
...which causes us to look up to it with a feeling of awe. It is itself the orator of this ' occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us.1 It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Daniel Webster - HISTORY - 1895 - 202 pages
...which saw Webster raise his outstretched arm up to the newly completed monument, and heard him say : 'It is not from my lips— it could not be from any lips — that the stream of eloquence is this day to flow, most competent to move and excite this vast... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - Orators - 1896 - 476 pages
...is which causes us to look up to it with a feeling of awe. // is itself thc orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us. It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 386 pages
...is which causes us to look up to it with a feeling of awe. It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us. It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Elizabeth Frances Atwood - Spellers - 1905 - 216 pages
...is which causes us to look up to it with a feeling of awe. It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...to flow, most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us. It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1905 - 182 pages
...is which causes us to look up to it with a feeling of awe. It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us.1 It is a plain shaft. It bears... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1905 - 172 pages
...which saw Webster raise his outstretched arm up to the newly completed monument, and heard him say : ' It is not from my lips — it could not be from any lips — that the stream of eloquence is this day to flow, most competent to move and excite this vast... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 446 pages
...afresh in the recollection of the great event which it is designed to commemorate." When, after saying " It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human...he paused and pointed in silent admiration to the great pile of granite, the audience burst into unrestrained applause, and many minutes elapsed before... | |
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It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human lips, that that strain of eloquence is this day to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless... 
