 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 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 hke vapour before the sun ;" — and Mr Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 páginas
...and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, all he had ever heard, or 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1866 - 326 páginas
...of which there was any record or tradition.'' Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, all thai he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun ;" — and Mr. Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1867 - 40 páginas
...eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition ;" of which 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;" while Mr. Pitt acknowledged that "it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 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 vanished like vapour before the sun." Pitt acknowledged "that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | 1869 - 384 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 vanished like vapour before the sun." Pitt acknowledged "that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 580 páginas
...wit united of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said of the same speech, " All that ho had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." And Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence of... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 508 páginas
...great speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, in 1788, Fox declared that "ail he had ever heard, all he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun." Burke called it " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 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 vanished like vapour before the sun." Pitt acknowledged "that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 páginas
...could 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'^e1 ";the most astonishing effort... | |
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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; 
