 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...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 When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...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...passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, nil may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 416 pages
...from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass...subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense egression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they^cannot reach it. It comes, if... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...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. 2. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cnnnot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. 2. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. Jt must exist in the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. 3. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it ; they cannot... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...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...subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense ex' pression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...resembled his general character, and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such as the crisis required. When public bodies are...toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled ill every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 pages
...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 marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...conviction. 2. 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...man, — in the subject, — and in the occasion. 3. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot... | |
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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,... 
