 ... commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his...  Essay on Warren Hastings - 176. oldalszerző: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 oldal
...without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But in spite of their absence, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as, perhaps, had not appeared since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 oldal
...and tables for the Commons. The managers,14 with Burke 16 at their head, appeared in full dress, and the box, in which the managers stood, contained an...since the great age of Athenian eloquence. " There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes,16 and the English Hyperides.17 There was Burke, ignorant... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 oldal
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 oldal
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 oldal
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...in which the managers stood contained an array of speakm sv\c\\ 1 50 Historical Scenes. as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 oldal
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 oldal
...and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity, lint, in spite of the absence of these two distinguished...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Ilyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 994 oldal
...public prosecution, and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 oldal
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his with its stately palaces. Dark and frowning piles...stone where Dante stood to gaze on tho campanile, the were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 oldal
...without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the al>scnce of these two distinguished members of the Lower House,...(since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the bullish Demosthenes and the English Hypcrides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
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