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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,... "
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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Brief Longhand: A System of Longhand Contractions, by Means of which the ...

Andrew Jackson Graham - Shorthand - 1857 - 88 pages
...to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions are excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than...eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech ; it can not be brought from far : labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil for it in vain...
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The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times ...

David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the * It has. perhaps, never been the fortune of an orator to treat a subject in all respects so extraordinary...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 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...
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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...which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but...
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McGuffey's New Eclectic Speaker: Containing about Three Hundred Exercises ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 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...eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words...
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Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan: As Soldier and Statesman

George Francis Dawson - Soldiers - 1887 - 652 pages
...and an eloquent man. As has been said by Webster : True eloquence indeed does not consist in speecn. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it. but they will toil for it in vain. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. . . . The graces taught...
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John Alexander Logan: (a ...

United States. 49th Congress, 2d session, 1886-1887 - 1887 - 236 pages
...Speaker, as has been said by Webster : True eloquence indeed does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil for it in vain. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. * * * The graces taught...
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Webster's First Bunker-Hill Oration

Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1889 - 78 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....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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...brighter as it burns. 1314 Tacitus : Works. A Dialogue concerning Oratory. Ch. 36. (Oxford translation. ) 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 consist in the man, in the subject, and...
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel ...

Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1889 - 816 pages
...interests are at stake, and htrong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments....eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It i-aimot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words...
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