 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...to two statesmen, whose superiors have nevei risen up, and possibly may never rise up, among us : " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from, (ar. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil IB HIS DESCRIPTION Of TRUE ELOQUENCE. 57... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 510 pages
...up, among us: " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from fcr. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in HI8 DESCRIPTION OF TRUE XLOQUENCE. 57 vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 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 hign intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, clothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 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...qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, in Joed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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...Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities \v hich produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought... | |
 | Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 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...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness arc the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. e,— Webster. 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 and phrases may be marshalled... | |
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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,... 
