 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
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...intellectual 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 far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...the qualities which produce 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... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....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,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 524 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 after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce. conviction. True eloquence, indeed, docs not consist in' speech. It cannot be brought from...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist jn 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... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 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 far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 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 far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Wo>ds and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the... | |
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