 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
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in s]>eech, 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 phra&es may be marshalled... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with-high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,...eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it', but they will toil in vain'. Words... | |
 | Universalism - 1863 - 446 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 with high intellectural and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness are the qualities which produce... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - Preaching - 1864 - 522 pages
...eloquence. The views here advocated find strong corroboration in the immortal words of Daniel Webster : and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction....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... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - Preaching - 1864 - 522 pages
...further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Olr " 401 PULPIT ELOQUENCE. and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot he brought from far. Laboi and learning may toil for it, hut they will toil in vain. Words and phrases... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 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...consist in speech ; it cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they toil for it in vain : words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
 | John Bascom - English language - 1866 - 264 pages
...department of moral influence. We must not be suffered to forget the famous words of the great orator, — " 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 marshalled... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 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 marshaled... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 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 marshaled... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 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 rain. Words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
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