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...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as ' of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles...

...(c.) " In exile with his godlike prince he mourned, For him he suffered and with him returned." (d.) " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." (e.) " His memory miraculously great Could plots exceeding man's belief repeat." 12. Give a dated list...

...a few days before the actual prosecution of Lord Shaftesbury, might well eulogize Halifax as Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance...