 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 664 pages
...bodies arc to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests arc at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than...force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce r-onviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour... | |
 | 1826 - 438 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 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,... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 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. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions-excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...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... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, — when great interests are at stake, and strong passions are 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 Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...to be addressed on momentous occa•ions, •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... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 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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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,... 
