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, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force,... English: Composition and Literature - Seite 176von William Franklin Webster - 1900 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1827 - 684 Seiten
...pulpit as well as the senate, that we shall offer no apology for giving them a place in this article. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. AVhen public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake,... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 664 Seiten
...crisis required. When public bodies arc to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests arc 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 earnestness, are... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 Seiten
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
| 1826 - 438 Seiten
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public 28 bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong... | |
| 1827 - 564 Seiten
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1831 - 722 Seiten
...Mr. Adams, in giving which, the speaker becomes, himself, a living example of what he describes. " The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...; and such the crisis required. When public bodies arc to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions... | |
| 1827 - 654 Seiten
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character, and formed, indeed, a part of it. It wat bold, manly, and energetic ; and such the crisis required. When public bodies are to be addressed... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 286 Seiten
...it is difficult and natural, not to undergo it. LESSON LXXXI. Eloquence of John Adams. — WEBSTER. THE eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual aud moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are... | |
| 1827 - 684 Seiten
...pulpit as well as the senate, that we shall ofter no apology for giving them a place in this article. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his general character,...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 Seiten
...LESSON LXII. Eloquence of John Adeems. — WEBSTER. The eloquence of Mr. Adams resembled his genera! character, and formed, indeed, a part of it. It was...great interests are at stake, and strong passions are excited, nothing is valuable in speech, farther than it is connected with hig'h intellectual and... | |
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