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 in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - الصفحة 84بواسطة Daniel Webster - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 520عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Salem Town - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...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...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 fountain from the... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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...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 fountain from the... | |
| Salem Town - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...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 in every way, but'they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 778
...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... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 872
...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... | |
| J. D. Bell - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...harmony with "Webster's wellknown declaration, that true eloquence cannot be brought from far ; that it must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Sheridan said, " he liked to go and hear Rowland Hill, because his ideas came red-hot from his heart."... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...speech ; it cannot be brought from far : labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil for it in vain: words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but 4 they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man ; in the subject; and in the occasion. Affected... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...indced, does not consist in spcech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may...Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of deelamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the... | |
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