| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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