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
| Leroy Jones Halsey - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...without the third. Says a high authority, Mr. Webster, " true eloquence does not consist in mere speech. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Such a subject Demosthenes had in the liberty of Greece, and such an occasion in the threatened invasion... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...learning may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every s '._v, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in thi subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense ex. • ;. sion, the pomp of declamation,... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, — they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...of declamation, all may aspire after it, — -they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or... | |
| 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they can not reach it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Profound emotional sensibility in a speaker would seem to imply another necessary condition of eloquence... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass8 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and...pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it ; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain from the earth,... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...it', but they will toil in vain*. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way', but they can not compass' it. It must exist in the man\ in the subject', and in the occasion1. Aifected passion1, intense expression1, the pomp of declamation*, all may aspire after it'... | |
| L. T. Covell - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...is to the sons of men." " Hatred stirreth up strife ; but love covcreth all sin." " True eloquence must exist in the man ; in the subject; and* in the occasion." " The sun is the source of light; the fixed stars are other suns ; the planets are other worlds ; the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...eloquence 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...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... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...it', but they will toil in vain'. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way', but they can not compass' it. It must exist in the man', in the subject',...of declamation', all may aspire after it' — they can not reach' it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth,... | |
| 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...outburst of emotion. It springs from deep feeling, and the occasion must bring it forth; as Webster says, "It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." It is the sum-total of all the faculties and powers; the whole man is needed to give it force and expression.... | |
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