 When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,...  The Christian Spectator - Page 2171827Full view - About this book
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 664 pages
...crisis required. When public bodies arc to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests arc at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable,...force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce r-onviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...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... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public 28 bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...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... | |
 | 1827 - 654 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It wat bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions-excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which pioduce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...PHILIP, LET US FIGHT FOR OUR LIBERTIES - LET US CONQUER OR DIE ! 54. Character of True Eloquence. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...farther than it is connected with high intellectual and 5 moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...farther than it is connected with high intellectual aud moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction.... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...great interests are at stake, and strong passions are excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with hig'h intellectual and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...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... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...formed, indeed, a part of it It was bold, manly, and energetic; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...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... | |
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