 | George Washington - 1915 - 216 pages
...Jefferson, delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 2d of August, 1826, in the celebrated passage: "When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectua' and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...land: His song was only living aloud, His work, a singing with his hand! " ELOQUENCE. SIDNEY LANIER 1. 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... | |
 | Harry Garfield Houghton - 1916 - 360 pages
...an address in the interest of Goucher College by President M. Cary Thomas of Bryn Mawr ELOQUENCE 2. 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... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1918 - 204 pages
...an important word; (4) the building up of a succession of emphatic words. Example of the First Rule 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... | |
 | John Reinder Pelsma - 1918 - 516 pages
...demanded. Remember that true oratory is a broad subject, and is itself suggestive of mass and weight. 1. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 pages
...Jefferson not only describe oratory, but constitute as well a perfect example of what oratory is : 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... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 pages
...come to it with the utmost coolness, the utmost deliberation." WILLIAM MATHEWS, "Oratory and Orators." 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... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred ! TRUE ELOQUENCE -DANIEL WEBSTER. 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... | |
 | Warren Choate Shaw - 1928 - 694 pages
...WEBSTER'S DESCRIPTION OF THE ELOQUENCE OF JOHN ADAMS FROM H1s EULOGY OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON AUGUST 2, 1826 The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1995 - 298 pages
...effeminate, for example.79 By the late nineteenth century the scientific style was enshrined as manly. "The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character, and formed, indeed, a part of it," noted Daniel Webster. "It was bold, manly, and energetic."80 Nineteenth-century textbooks lauded the... | |
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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,... 
