...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. 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 1 The writer cannot too fully and clearly...

...not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Learning and labor may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of the fountain...

...intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness are the qualities that 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...

..."Eloquence, — its True Nature, " he says : "True eloquence does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." This book throughout has the real literary atmosphere, and, like all of its kind, has nothing in its...

...nearly expresses the idea of eloquence to which the word will be confined in this discussion. u j.rue eloquence/ indeed does not consist in speech. It cannot...the occasion. Affected passion,' intense expression, 1 the pomp of declamation all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes if it come at all,...

...for it, ^7 </ and toil in vain; words and phrases may be marshalled-T^ ft in every way, but can not compass it. It must exist in the ., man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Therefore we r can not acquire this art of persuasion by imitation, while ^ we may develop it under...

...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 after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain...

...for conviction; that true eloquence indeed does not consist in words. It cannot be brought from afar; labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. The graces taught in schools, the costly ornaments and contrivances of speech shock and disgust men...

...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain...

...may lie marshal! id in any conceivable order without manifesting it. ll must exist in the speaker, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, and not reach it. Ii must come like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth,...