 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 664 pages
...great interests arc at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce r-onviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...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....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... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...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....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... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...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....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...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....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...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 in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...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....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...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....True, eloquence indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...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....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it ; but they will toil in vain. Words... | |
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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,... 
