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" ... the superstructure. And here the defect, so often to be deplored in contemplating the history of modern oratory, attains its very height. Meagre as are the materials by which we can aim at forming to ourselves some idea of the eloquence of most men... "
Works of Henry Lord Brougham - Página 461
por Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen71

1840 - 824 páginas
...of most men who flourished before our own day ; scanty as the remains are of the speakers who even figured during the Seven Years' War, and the earlier...history that ever exercised the art, and these accounts powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen39

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 páginas
...of most men who flourished before our own day ; scanty as the remains are of the speakers who even figured during the Seven Years' War, and the earlier...history that ever exercised the art, and these accounts powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volumen3

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1844 - 300 páginas
...of the brilliant literary reputation which places him am&ng the first classics of what we generally call our Augustan age. Much of his rhetorical fame...the art, and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches of Demades,* one of...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III ...

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1844 - 394 páginas
...the earlier part of the American contest; when we go back to the administration of Walpole, we und those vestiges to be yet mor.e thinly scattered over...Queen Anne's time, during which alone Bolingbroke spojce, there are absolutely none. It is correct to affirm that of this great orator— one of the...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volúmenes5-6

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 500 páginas
...of the brilliant literary reputation which places him among the first classics of what we generally call our Augustan age. Much of his rhetorical fame...art, — and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of• the speeches of Demades,* one...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh review, Volumen1

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 páginas
...independently of the brilliant literary reputation which places him among the first classes of what M 2 we generally but erroneously call our Augustan age....art, — and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches of Demades,1 one of...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volumen1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 526 páginas
...some idea of the eloquence of most men who flourished before our own day; scanty as are the remnins even of the speakers who figured during the seven...art, — and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches of Demades,i one of...
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Works, Volumen4

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 514 páginas
...come down to our times as one of the most able and eloquent men of whom this country ever could hpast. As it is upon his eloquence that his great reputation...art, — and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains, any more than of the speeches of Demades,* one of...
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An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to ...

George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 838 páginas
...speakers who figured during the Seven Years War, and the earlier part of the American contest — when wo go back to the administration of Walpole we find those vestiges to bo yet more thinly scattered over the pages of our history; and in Queen Anne's time, during which...
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Beeton's Complete orator, including the art of public speaking, and British ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 páginas
...adequate report, so often to be deplored in contemplating the history of modem oratory, attains its height. " Meagre as are the materials by which we...the art, and these accounts are powerfully supported by his writings — not a spoken sentence remains. The contemplation of this chasm it was which made...
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