 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 - 79 ページSamuel Lorenzo Knapp 著 - 1831 - 234 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | David Thomas - 1866
...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
...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
...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 - 266 ページ
...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 - 314 ページ
...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 - 230 ページ
...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 - 298 ページ
...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 - 160 ページ
...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 - 381 ページ
...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... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 188 ページ
...crash beneath his feet ! O, which way now is left for his retreat 1" TRUE ELOQUENCE.— Webster. (14.) When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...great interests are at stake, and strong passions are excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high, intellectual and... | |
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