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
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...government in carrying this benediction and baptism into fulfilment. B. Mann. •• cvn. TRUE ELOQUENCE. it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....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... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...great interests are at stake, and strong passions, excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral...indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought 'rom far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 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...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. Trne eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning... | |
| Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 pages
...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions are 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 will toil in ELOCUTION AND DECLAMATION. 17 vain. Words... | |
| Philip Schaff - Bible - 1890 - 476 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...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... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1892 - 382 pages
...thrbnes; Till Anarchy come down on you like night, And massacre seal Home's eternal grave. (§ 213.) Clearness, force and earnestness are the qualities...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... | |
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1893 - 108 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....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... | |
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1893 - 108 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....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... | |
| John W. Iliff - Elocution - 1893 - 616 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...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... | |
| James Monroe Gregory - Abolitionists - 1893 - 270 pages
...and earnestness. His heart is~irf"what~he says. " Clearness, force, and earnestness," says Webster, " are the qualities which produce conviction. .True...consist in speech ; it cannot be brought from far ; Iab0r~"and learning may toil for it, but they will toil for it in vain. Words and phrases may be... | |
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