 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,...  Daniel Webster, a Character Sketch - Page 156by Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - 1903 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Simon Kerl - 1862 - 430 pages
...bid on the watch. When public bodies are ю be addressed on momentous occasions when great int3"ests are at stake and strong passions excited nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high moral and intellectual endowments. If it be in the spring of... | |
 | 1863 - 464 pages
...the inclinations of the people, the consciences of judges, and the majesty of studies? — Cicero. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectural and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...can in the least compete with him in fecundity 5 is Ibid. PUNCH . THE NATURE or TRUE ELOQUENCE. VHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous" occasions,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected wife high intellectual and moral endowments. 7 Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1864 - 522 pages
...the immortal words of Daniel Webster : When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occations, 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. Olr " 401 PULPIT ELOQUENCE. and earnestness... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...men, and not' made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. DEFINITION OF ELOQUENCE. WEBSTER. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness... | |
 | David Thomas - 1866 - 756 pages
...expressed views on this subject more consonant with our own than any other writer of modern times. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Cicaritcs*, force, and etirncsfneim, are... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...of Mr. Adams resembled his general character, and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, mauly, and energetic; and such the crisis required. When...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pages
...declamatory. Finally, assign it to the boys of tlic class to be committed to memory for declamation. 1. When public bodies \ are to be addressed | on momentous...excited, nothing \ is valuable, in speech, further than it is connected | with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness \... | |
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1883 - 128 pages
...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil hy losing its grossness, is gone. — Burke. 32. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. — Webster. NOTE. — In 31, "chastity"... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 pages
...left the sea as placid as before. 2 recreancy, unfaithfulness, disobedience. 87. — True Eloquence. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
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