Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... success . He was speaking on the Bill for grant- ing counsel to prisoners in cases of high treason , when he got confused , but after a short pause continued : If I , Mr. Speaker , who rise only to offer my opinion on the Bill now ...
... success . He was speaking on the Bill for grant- ing counsel to prisoners in cases of high treason , when he got confused , but after a short pause continued : If I , Mr. Speaker , who rise only to offer my opinion on the Bill now ...
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... successful efforts of Montagu have been similarly reduced to little better than a caput mortuum . Thus , we are assured by the historian that the extraordinary ability with which , at the beginning of the year 1792 , he managed the con ...
... successful efforts of Montagu have been similarly reduced to little better than a caput mortuum . Thus , we are assured by the historian that the extraordinary ability with which , at the beginning of the year 1792 , he managed the con ...
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... style has much better grace in an orator than a writer , and is assured of more prompt and astonishing success .-- ( Hume , ' Essay on Eloquence . ' ) tempter and tormentor . He makes the criminal and he ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 39.
... style has much better grace in an orator than a writer , and is assured of more prompt and astonishing success .-- ( Hume , ' Essay on Eloquence . ' ) tempter and tormentor . He makes the criminal and he ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 39.
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... successful speeches to Mr. Bright's or Mr. Disraeli's one . His foot is ever in the stirrup : his lance is ever in the rest . He throws down the gauntlet to all comers . Right or , wrong , he is always real , natural , earnest ...
... successful speeches to Mr. Bright's or Mr. Disraeli's one . His foot is ever in the stirrup : his lance is ever in the rest . He throws down the gauntlet to all comers . Right or , wrong , he is always real , natural , earnest ...
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... successful passage was this— ' I do not suppose that your troops are to be beaten in actual conflict with the foe , or that they will be driven into the sea ; but I am certain that many homes 76 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
... successful passage was this— ' I do not suppose that your troops are to be beaten in actual conflict with the foe , or that they will be driven into the sea ; but I am certain that many homes 76 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
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Página 1 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...