 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness are the qualities...far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they toil for it in vain : words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it:... | |
 | David Thomas - 1866 - 756 pages
...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from tu. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they mil toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, bu; they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - 1867 - 408 pages
...True eloquence," says Daniel Webster, " does not consist in speech. It cannot bo brought from fur. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may bo marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in rain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. Trne eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 pages
...nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought 'rom far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...CHAEACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. DANIEL WEBSTEE. it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 pages
...is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high, intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities...and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in ELOCUTION AND DECLAMATION. 17 vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot... | |
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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 and... 
