 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,...  The Christian Spectator - Page 2171827Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 248 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...Am'-pli-fi-ed, enlarged. of Florence. CHAPTER VII. PUBLIC SPEECIIEa SECTION I. The Nature of Eloquence. 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. 2. Words and phrases may be marshaled... | |
 | 1832 - 504 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments Clearness, force and earnestness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...ELOQUENCE. Extract from the same Discourse. WHENEVER public bodies, fellow. citizens, are to be ad. dressed on momentous occasions ; when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, the eloquence of those who address such bodies should be bold, manly, and energetic ; and such as the... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...enlarged. of Florence. i1 • CHAPTER VII. PU1ILIC SPEECHES. SECTION I. The Nature nf Eloquence. 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...connected with high intellectual and moral endowments." Cli-amcss, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed,... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...others, we do, we must honour. — BLAIR. LESSON LVIII. The Nature of True Eloquence. 1. WHEN publick bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pages
...pastoral poemi. / CHAPTER VII. 'PUBLIC SPEECHES. • ' SECTION I. The Nature of Eloquence. . . ; 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on "momentous occasions,...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 - 1835 - 1166 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions^ when great interests arc at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected... | |
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