...nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intelligence and moral endowment clearness force and earnestness are the qualities...does not consist in speech it cannot be brought from afar labor and learning may toil for it but they will toil in vain words and phrases may be marshalled...

...treated were such as appeal to the full powers of an orator. True oratory arises, as Webster says, " whea public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...interests are at stake, and strong passions excited." Lincoln faced a great crisis in the national life. It was not a time for the graces of rhetoric. "...

...first found in them. 11. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions declares Webster when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intelligence and moral endowment clearness force and earnestness...

...made quite clear, And I know 'twas a sweet " Good-night." JAMES CLARENCE HARVEY. TRUE ELOQUENCE. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions;...does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from afar. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled...

...Workers," which follow here, worthy of study and consideration. DANIEL WEBSTER. TRUE ELOQUENCE. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...than it is connected with high intellectual and moral attainments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence,...

...student will do well to ponder over it and try to realize the full significance of every statement. "Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities...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...

...Jefferson, delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 2d of August, 1826, in the celebrated passage: "When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectua' and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are...

...His song was only living aloud, His work, a singing with his hand! " ELOQUENCE. SIDNEY LANIER 1. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are...

...address in the interest of Goucher College by President M. Cary Thomas of Bryn Mawr ELOQUENCE 2. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions,...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness...

...when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral...Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities that produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from...