 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
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 130 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,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...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,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 206 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... | |
 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1853 - 276 pages
...described years afterwards, in his eulogy on Adams and Jefferson. Hear him ! You will never tire. " True eloquence, indeed, does not 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 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 marshaled... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 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,...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. 22 LESSON CXXV. The Nature of True Eloquence.—D. WEBSTER 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with hign intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 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,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. 19. THE ELOQUENCE OF ACTION. —Daniel Weltttr. 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,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 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... | |
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