| David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...modern eloquence has produced: " When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, Avhen great 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. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven from his death-bed of fame. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. _ When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...subjects, And ye shall find the state a gentle mistress. (Exeunt.) FROM MITFORD. LX.— TRUE ELOQUENCE. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. 19. THE ELOQUENCE OF ACTION.— Daniel »',;,.-, r. 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 - 1858 - 752 pages
...energetic; and snch the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous qnestions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions...nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is counected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...SPEAKER TRUE ELOQUENCE. Extracted from WEBSTER'S rtflrlrnfii nn thr rnrnplatirm nftliri TTiinliri TTIH WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...Ibid. PUNCH. 141. THE I^ATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. VHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous 6 occasions, 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. 7 Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...O'er all the blessings of that day ! Ex. LIIL— CHARACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. WERSTER. WHKST pnblic bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
| Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 pages
...who had never been in a city before and who was therefore moat easily duped at once bid on the watch. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high moral and intellectual endowments. If it be in the spring of the year and the young grass has just... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...can in the least compete wife him in fecundity5 is Ibid. PUNCH. 141. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous'...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected wife high intellectual and moral endowments.7 Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
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