 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...conviction. 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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...conviction. 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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...conviction. 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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...conviction. 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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain, Words and phrases may 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1828 - 728 pages
...to the people of all the colonies. North Carolina alone had yet come out with an explicit desire lor the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outhreaking of a fountain... | |
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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. 
