 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 448 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 312 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 350 pages
...qualities which produce conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot he brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...man, — in the subject, — and in the occasion. 3. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it : they cannot... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1846 - 312 pages
...not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning 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, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 440 pages
...necessary in all cases for eloquence. Webster has stated a philosophical truth in saying that " eloquence must exist in the man, in the subject and in the occasion. "\ Had he been expressly treating the point, he would probably have added, that of the three, " the... | |
 | Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 408 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are qualities that produce conviction. 5. " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....far. Labor and learning may toil for it ; but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 288 pages
...and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but'they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 336 pages
...The other writer observes, "Clearness, force and earnestness, are qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech....far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 462 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... | |
 | Theology - 1849
...without regard to this essential element in all oratory. " True eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man ; in the subject; and in the occasion. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic ; the high purpose ; the firm resolve ; the... | |
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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... 
