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Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of ... - Page 94
by Robert W. Lincoln - 1842 - 588 pages
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American Oratory: Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1845 - 552 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 ana learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Word? and phrases may be marshalled in every...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled...
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Town's Fourth Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from ...

Salem Town - 1845 - 296 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...eloquence", indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be^brought from far. Labor and learning may toft"foT it, but they will toil in vain. ,^)p Words and...
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National Preceptor

Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 8. 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,...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

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...
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Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy

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...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 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...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot he brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...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,...
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The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the ...

Salem Town - Elocution - 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...
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Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from ...

Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 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...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...
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