 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
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 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 will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 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 will toil in vain. 2. Words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 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 will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...such bodies should be bold, manly, and energetic ; and such as the crisis requires. Nothing, then, 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 marshalled... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 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 intellectual and moral endowments." Cli-amcss, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 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 will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 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...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 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...learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Wo>ds and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...addressed on "momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist jn speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions^ when great interests arc at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...which produce. conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs not consist in' speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but... | |
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