| Lucy D. Bell - 1923 - 136 páginas
...matter left to us of the beauty of the whole, but it was about this speech that Fox exclaimed " all he had ever heard — all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Macaulay must be remembered and studied not so much for his brilliancy,... | |
| Hugh Alexander Law - 1926 - 328 páginas
...genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind " ; of which Fox said that ' ' all he had ever heard — all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing and vanished like vapour before the sun " ; which Burke averred to be " the most astonishing effort of... | |
| Daniel O'Quinn - 2005 - 444 páginas
...of eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or traditíon. Mr. Fox said, "all that he had ever heard — all that he had ever read when compared with it dwindled to nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it surpassed all... | |
| 1859 - 636 páginas
...argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said of the same speech, " 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 Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence of... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 490 páginas
...of eloquence, argument, and wit united 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 vanished like vapor before the sun." Pitt avowed that "it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 578 páginas
...hours and a half in the delivery. All parties agreed in its extravagant praise. Fox said, that all he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun. Burke and Pitt declared it to be unequalled in ancient or modern... | |
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