 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 marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in...  Webster and His Master-pieces - Page 206by Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will...and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour 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, in the subject, and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will...and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass 3 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not 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 can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1859 - 448 pages
...without the third. 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 occasion." Such a subject Demosthenes had in the liberty of Greece, and such an occasion in the threatened invasion... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...learning may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every s '._v, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in thi subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense ex. • ;. sion, the pomp of declamation,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will...vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, — they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...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 will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they can not reach it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Profound emotional sensibility in a speaker would seem to imply another necessary condition of eloquence... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will...and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass8 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
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