 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 208 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....qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 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 high intellect and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 642 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....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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 562 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...does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from fur. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 240 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....earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True elqquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 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....force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.,y True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be* brought from far. 'Labor and... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1854 - 560 pages
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act. learning may toil for it; 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... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 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...endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are ^he qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 506 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... | |
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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,... 
