Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... young Whigs , who then took their seats for the first time - Charles Montagu and John Somers.1 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in ...
... young Whigs , who then took their seats for the first time - Charles Montagu and John Somers.1 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in ...
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... young man becoming the mouth- piece of a party , or taking the lead in the conduct of affairs , at his first entrance into public life . The Pitts , father and son , and Charles Fox , are remarkable ex- amples of this description of ...
... young man becoming the mouth- piece of a party , or taking the lead in the conduct of affairs , at his first entrance into public life . The Pitts , father and son , and Charles Fox , are remarkable ex- amples of this description of ...
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... young member for Castle Rising , who looked like the son of a small farmer , and seemed by his gait as though he had been brought up to follow the plough ? ' 1 This was in 1701. Speaking of occurrences in 1713 , Bishop Newton relates ...
... young member for Castle Rising , who looked like the son of a small farmer , and seemed by his gait as though he had been brought up to follow the plough ? ' 1 This was in 1701. Speaking of occurrences in 1713 , Bishop Newton relates ...
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... young man , afterwards a distinguished member of Opposition , of Bishop Tomline , who was under the gallery during the delivery of this speech - ' an omission , ' adds the Bishop , ' generally considered as marking the modesty and good ...
... young man , afterwards a distinguished member of Opposition , of Bishop Tomline , who was under the gallery during the delivery of this speech - ' an omission , ' adds the Bishop , ' generally considered as marking the modesty and good ...
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... young England party , he first opened the trenches against Peel . His later and more elaborate speeches are deficient in substance , soundness , spontaneity and flow . They neither con- vince nor move . As Cicero says of Epicurus ...
... young England party , he first opened the trenches against Peel . His later and more elaborate speeches are deficient in substance , soundness , spontaneity and flow . They neither con- vince nor move . As Cicero says of Epicurus ...
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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...