 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...  Christian Pamphlets - Page 291844Full view - About this book
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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 - 340 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 - 372 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 - 334 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 - 454 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 - American literature - 1847 - 420 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 - 300 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 - 364 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 - 612 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 - 788 pages
...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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