 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 95 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... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 354 pages
...high intellectual endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness are 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 toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 531 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. Il must exist in the man, in the subject, and hi the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 311 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 comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 588 pages
...in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must oxist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected...intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 300 pages
...moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....man, — in the subject, — and in the occasion. 3. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it : they cannot... | |
 | 1843
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in everyway, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 504 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 432 pages
...moral en5 dowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled 15 earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 428 pages
...may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled 10 in every way, — they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,...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... | |
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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... 
