 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech,, farther...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. Il must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than...intellectual and moral endowments.* Clearness, force, and earn/stness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 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...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in everyway, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than...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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral en5 dowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled 10 in every way, — they cannot compass U. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...them what eloquence is and what it is not. There is much of truth in the language of one who says, " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...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 en5 dowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 564 pages
...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...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor ann % learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in... | |
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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,... 
