 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
 | William Larkin Webb - 1912 - 280 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...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... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Elocution - 1913 - 316 pages
...works Learn to conform the order of our lives. WC BEYAUT. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. TRUE eloquence does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...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... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - English language - 1913 - 432 pages
...intelligence and moral endowment clearness force and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction true eloquence indeed does not consist in speech it cannot be brought from afar labor and learning may toil for it but they will toil in vain words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 464 pages
...gifts, a cultivated taste, wide reading, and experience. Webster was right when he said that eloquence " must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." These are things that can not be taught or learned off-hand. They may come, if the man have right powers... | |
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 pages
...of every statement. "Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, and pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all,... | |
 | Lauron William De Laurence - Attention - 1914 - 442 pages
...and moral attainments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Word and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,... | |
 | Recitations - 1914 - 634 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from afar. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | George Washington - 1915 - 216 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... | |
 | Nellie Elfa Turner - Reading - 1915 - 536 pages
...will toil in vain. 4 Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. 5 It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. 6 Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 736 pages
...Daniel Webster, described such combinations. " True oratory," he says, " does not consist in mere words, it must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Labour and learning may toil after it, but they toil in vain ; the subtlest disquisitions of the schools... | |
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