| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 páginas
...effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said, " all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing;" and Pitt — even the cold, reserved Pitt — confessed that, in his opinion, " it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - 588 páginas
...of eloquence, argument, andjait, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, " all that he had ever heard — all that he had ever...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it surpassed all the eloquence of... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1843 - 348 páginas
...of eloquence., argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun. Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it far surpassed all the eloquence... | |
| 1895 - 844 páginas
...astonishing effort of eloquence and argument of which there is any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said: "All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever...read, when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like a vapor before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed all the eloquence of... | |
| Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 páginas
...of eloquence, argument and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun ;" and Mr. Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 páginas
...the most astonishing effort of eloquence of which there was any record or tradition. Fox said that all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it dwindled into nothing ;* and • This was said out aloud, and with due solemnity. m the coune of the present debate It has been... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 páginas
...eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Fox declared that " all he had ever heard — all that he had ever read — when compared with it, dwindled to nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Pitt also acknowledged that " it surpassed all... | |
| George Crosby - 1847 - 424 páginas
...furnish to agitate and control the human heart." Fox declared, " that all he had ever heard — all he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;" and Burke pronounced it to be " the most astonishing effort of... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 392 páginas
...argument and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition ;" — of which Fox said — " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun ;" — of which Pitt declared, " that it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 páginas
...of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun ;" and Mr. Pitt acknowledged that "it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
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