| Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. Il must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. 2. Words'and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth,... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must oxist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject and in... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in everyway, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, — in the subject,... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled 10 in every way, — they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...The marking to be applied as an extension of practice on Rhetorical Pauses.] 10 in every way,—they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it,—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled 10 in every way, — they cannot compass U. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking- of a fountain from the... | |
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