 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...such bodies should be bold, manly, and energetic ; and such as the crisis requires. Nothing, then, is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 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...learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. 2. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 480 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...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 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...connected with high intellectual and moral endowments." Cli-amcss, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 624 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... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 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. Labour and learning... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 316 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...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist jn speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...are to be addressed on momentous occasions^ when great interests arc 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. Labor and learning may toil for it, but... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...conviction. 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. Wo>ds and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the... | |
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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,... 
