...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue, yet true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and...into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy terttlori, trip about kirn at command, and in well...

...— this is an essential element of " true eloquence," which, as Milton* admirably expresses it, "we find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth." Now, it was precisely this all-important ingredient of " true eloquence" that was wanting in Mr. Crafts'...

...— His eloquence was, in the language of Milton, " the serious and hearty love of truth ; his mind fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good...to infuse the knowledge of them into others. When •in li a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command,...

...spirit which stirs within, is indeed the real secret of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is 8 85 fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse...

...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue ; yet l te A0 (by what I can express) like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command, and in well-ordered...

...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue ; yet true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...into others, when such a man would speak, his words, (by what I can express) like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered...

...-St'ExcE. out to confirm the cause." — •«UCiTlY. Wilson. " True eloquence I find to he none, but ihe serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is fully possest wiih a fervent desire to know good things, itij »iih the dearest charity to infuse the Viioiiledge...

...far as thought and style are concerned, may be fitly described in the language of Milton, who says, " True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and...good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse * Mather gives us what I suppose to have been a part of one of Eliot's sermons on the passage, " Our...

..." Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur," or, as Milton quaintly but forcibly expresses it: " Whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and witn the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others; when such a man would speak,...

...believe in the cause he pleads. Milton, in a passage a part of which has been cited above, says, " true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth " — or more properly, what the speaker believes to be the truth. This sentence ought to be engraved...