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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 251
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 311 pages
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American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 pages
...and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. T^iie eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...narrow compass; and most unjustly. It is in those things which are so common as to be no distinction, that the amplitude of the Divine benignity is perceived."...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. 22 LESSON CXXV. The Nature of True Eloquence. — D. WEBSTER. 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...double head With sudden drifts of enow. Section 4. ORATORICAL. LESSON I. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,...
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The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a ...

Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...margin of the world, good omens cheer us from " the bright track of their fiery car !" TRUE ORATORY. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness...
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A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: And ..., Volume 2

L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 376 pages
...statesman just named, remarked; "It was bold, manly, and energetic, but such as the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than is connected with high intellectual endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness are qualities...
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American Oratory, Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was bold, manly and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech,, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness,...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.* Clearness, force, and earn/stness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in...
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Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of ...

Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...character, and formed indeed a part of it. It was bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous...occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passiuns excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual...
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