 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
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...interest* are at stake, and strong passions excited nothing is valuable in speech, further than ii is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs noi consist in speech. H cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...tlmn it is connected with hi^h intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestncM;, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence,...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... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...mid strong pasMoiis excited nothing is valuable in speech, further than it ia connected with liiph intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True t'louueiiro, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from tlir. Labor and learning... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 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...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 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 qualities that produce conviction. 5. " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 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... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...the same opinion." The other writer observes, "Clearness, force and earnestness, are qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 514 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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 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 u, ou.they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 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... | |
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