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, and... American Quarterly Review - Page 611827Full view - About this book
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 664 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests arc at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce r-onviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...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... | |
| 1826 - 438 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...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... | |
| 1827 - 564 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...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... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...addressed on momentous occasions, — when great interests are at stake, and strong passions are excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is...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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and 5 moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness...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 10 be marshalled... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which pioduce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far.... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...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 5 moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...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 aud moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction.... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is...consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for if, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
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