 | George Soulé - 1906 - 794 pages
...hermit's cell"; "Washington fought in New York and in New Jersey, during the years 1776 and 1777"; "When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech," etc. 7. An adjective phrase is generally set off by a comma; or, if parenthetical, by two; as, "Having... | |
 | Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - 1906 - 376 pages
...almost expected to see the city float away like a cloud and dissolve into thin air. — LONGFELLOW. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high mental and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
 | National Speech Arts Association - 1907 - 800 pages
...We have here an illustration of what Webster so splendidly speaks of in his reference to eloquence. "When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.'' This simple tribute to the dead of... | |
 | George Washington - 1909 - 144 pages
...delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, in 1826. While speaking of the eloquence of -Adams, Webster said : — " When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1909 - 282 pages
...movements of the body; in fact, delivery is the finished product of voice and action. Examples of Delivery 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 408 pages
...Adams and Thomas Jefferson, in Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826, he describes the oratory of Adams: The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addrest on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 pages
...return, I think I 'll scarcely mourn, If I may change into green things growing — CRAIK 52. 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... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 392 pages
...treated were such as appeal to the full powers of an orator. True oratory arises, as Webster says, " when public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited." Lincoln faced a great crisis in the. national life. It was not a time for the graces of rhetoric. "... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 398 pages
...treated were such as appeal to the full powers of an orator. True oratory arises, as Webster says, " whea public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited." Lincoln faced a great crisis in the national life. It was not a time for the graces of rhetoric. "... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - 432 pages
...first found in them. 11. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions declares Webster when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intelligence and moral endowment clearness force and earnestness... | |
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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 as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,... 
