 When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and...  American Quarterly Review - Page 611827Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.,y True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be* brought from far. 'Labor and... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral...endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are ^he qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 526 pages
...to two statesmen, whose superiors have nevei risen up, and possibly may never rise up, among us : " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with hign intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 3. Affected passion, mtense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...to two statesmen, whose superiors have nevei risen up, and possibly may never rise up, among us : " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from, (ar. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil IB HIS DESCRIPTION Of TRUE ELOQUENCE. 57... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, in Joed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities \v hich produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought... | |
 | Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness arc the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from... | |
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