 | 1838 - 594 oldal
...Few men in the House can improvise better. It does not appear to cost him an effort to speak. He is a man of very considerable talent ; but has nothing...of Nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. 1 have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman. His views are not sufficiently... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 314 oldal
...reviewers could praise, the book in which such want of political sagacity occurs as follows : — " I have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman." It is not very long since the above was written ; and now, on all sides, it is admitted Mr Gladstone... | |
 | 1872 - 862 oldal
...debater, with graceful manners and a handsome face, " I have no idea," says this profound critic, " that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman. His views are not sufficiently enlarged for that." But even then more discerning judges recognized the superior abilities of the young... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1869 - 448 oldal
...reviewers could praise, the book in which such want of political sagacity occurs as follows : — " I have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman." It is not very long since the above was written ; and now, on all sides, it is admitted Mr. Gladstone... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 oldal
...men in the House can improvísate better. It does not appear to cost him an effort to speak. He ia very cause where we find that some one has been wronged ? aro not sufficiently profound or enlarged for that; his celebrity in the House of Commons will chiefly... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1879 - 640 oldal
...both somewhat diverting and rather contradictory in spirit to that which has gone before : — ' He is a man of very considerable talent, but has nothing...education and of mature study than of any prodigality of nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. / have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 1224 oldal
...both somewhat diverting and rather contradictory in spirit to that which has gone before : — ' He is a man of very considerable talent, but has nothing...education and of mature study than of any prodigality of nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. / have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 620 oldal
...both somewhat diverting and rather contradictory in spirit to that which has gone before : — ' He is a man of very considerable talent, but has nothing...education and of mature study than of any prodigality of nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. / have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 624 oldal
...both somewhat diverting and rather contradictory in spirit to that which has gone before : — ' He is a man of very considerable talent, but has nothing...education and of mature study than of any prodigality of nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. I have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 552 oldal
...both somewhat diverting and rather contradictory in spirit to that which has gone before : — ' He is a man of very considerable talent, but has nothing...of an excellent education and of mature study than o£ any prodigality of Nature in the distribution of her mental gifts. / have no idea that he will... | |
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I have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman. His views are not sufficiently profound or enlarged for that; his celebrity in the House of Commons will chiefly depend on his readiness and dexterity as a debater, in conjunction... 
