 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
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1864 - 522 pages
...learning may toil for it, hut they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, hut they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pom1) of declamation, all may aspire to 1> ' Miey cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 516 pages
...4. Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go ; keep her, for she is thy life. 5. True eloquence must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. 6. Let me prepare for the approach of eternity; let me give up my soul to meditation ; let solitude... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...NATURE OP TRUE ELOQUENCE. True eloquence does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from fur. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will...they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in tie subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 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. 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 Bates Tower - 1865 - 256 pages
...clauses, and sentences ; as, Two and three are five. A great and good man has left us. True eloquence must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. John walked and William rode. REMARK 1. Conjunctions connect words of the same class in the same relation... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1865 - 460 pages
...the third, i Says a high authority, Mr. Webster, " true eloquence does not consist in mere speech. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the oscasioa." Such a subject Deruosthenes had in the liberty of Greece, and such an occasion in the threatened... | |
 | 1906 - 334 pages
...story of their trip to the land of gold. NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. DANIEL WEBSTER. 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1906 - 136 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 exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | John Goode - 1906 - 282 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 exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - 1906 - 376 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....but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in man, in the subject, and in the... | |
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