 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 in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 44by Daniel Webster - 1835Full view - About this book
 | John Reinder Pelsma - 1918 - 516 pages
...charge is utterly, totally and meanly false. — GBATTAN. 2. True eloquence does not consist in speech. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreak of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of... | |
 | Champ Clark - 1920 - 540 pages
...recall Daniel Webster's analysis of oratory or eloquence, which runs in this wise: "True eloquence does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far....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... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far....but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must 1 The writer cannot too fully and clearly... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 pages
...Clearness, force and earnestness are the qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far....expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1923 - 804 pages
..."Eloquence, — its True Nature, " he says : "True eloquence does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." This book throughout has the real literary atmosphere, and, like all of its kind, has nothing in its... | |
 | Mary Lucile Welty - 1926 - 148 pages
...of eloquence to which the word will be confined in this discussion. u j.rue eloquence/ indeed does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far....the occasion. Affected passion,' intense expression, 1 the pomp of declamation all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes if it come at all,... | |
 | Charles Henry Schultz - 1926 - 290 pages
...for it, ^7 </ and toil in vain; words and phrases may be marshalled-T^ ft in every way, but can not compass it. It must exist in the ., man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Therefore we r can not acquire this art of persuasion by imitation, while ^ we may develop it under... | |
 | National Republican Club, inc - 1927 - 496 pages
...for conviction; that true eloquence indeed does not consist in words. It cannot be brought from afar; labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. The graces taught in schools, the costly ornaments and contrivances of speech shock and disgust men... | |
 | 1910 - 482 pages
...phrases may be marshall ed in any conceivable order without manifesting it. It must exist in the speaker, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, and not reach it. It must come like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | 1903 - 408 pages
...may lie marshal! id in any conceivable order without manifesting it. ll must exist in the speaker, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, and not reach it. Ii must come like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
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