 Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which 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...  Christian Pamphlets - Page 291844Full view - About this book
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - Elocution - 1911 - 332 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - Legislators - 1911 - 594 pages
...were eloquently commented on, and then came the often quoted passage on eloquence: " True eloquence does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all. like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 pages
...nullification. He was secretary of state under the first President Harrison, and also under President Fillmore. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1911 - 412 pages
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 458 pages
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they can not reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1911 - 172 pages
...illustrates what Daniel Webster said of eloquence in his oration on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1911 - 408 pages
...qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, i does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 462 pages
...delight. "Dryden and Pope." SAJIUEL JOHNSON. 4. True eloquence does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - Oratory - 1911 - 278 pages
...the grave." Let us take a simpler example as an illustration. Daniel Webster says: "It (eloquence) must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Here are three elements that must enter into the creation of eloquence — the man, the subject, and... | |
 | Byrin K. Elliott - 1911 - 668 pages
...nor noise for power. "Cicero, Oratory and Orators, B. II, Chap. LI. "True eloquence," says Webster, "must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." So, as said by La Rouchefoucald, there is often "as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes,... | |
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