 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 further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,...  A Memoir of the Life of Daniel Webster - Seite 79von Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 234 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 Seiten
...can in the least compete with him in fecundity 5 is Ibid. PUNCH . THE NATURE or TRUE ELOQUENCE. VHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous" occasions,...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected wife high intellectual and moral endowments. 7 Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
 | David Thomas - 1866 - 756 Seiten
...expressed views on this subject more consonant with our own than any other writer of modern times. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Cicaritcs*, force, and etirncsfneim,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 Seiten
...on the goodness of the cause and the virtues of the people, which led him to overlook all obstacles. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...manly, and energetic; and such the crisis required. 7. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 Seiten
...on his way, O'er all the blessings of that day ! Ex. LIIL— CHARACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. WEBSTER. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 Seiten
...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing its grossness, is gone. — Burke. 32. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. — Webster. 2O6. ABRIDGMENT.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 Seiten
...course, That a horse-chestnut is a chestnut horse." THE NAT1.RB OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. (DANIEL WKRSTKR.) When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 Seiten
...repeat, in words of bliss, " We're all—all here 1" CHARACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE.—DANIEL WEBSTER. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 Seiten
...the divine benignity is perceived." Example 3. " When public bodies are to be addressed on momen tous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and...passions, excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,... | |
 | 1869 - 182 Seiten
...the highest points, or beginning with the most trivial climbs to the most important. Examples. — "When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 Seiten
...worthiness. On this subject Daniel Webster well said : 28. Opinion of Webster on this Subject. — " When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness... | |
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