 ... 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
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 400 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 distinguished members of the Lo.ver House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as, perhaps,... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 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 - 1892 - 432 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 - 1892 - 420 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,... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 oldal
...; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. 7. But, 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 Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 oldal
...this time (having been born in 1732), so that age had nothing to do with the case. his tact, and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two...perhaps had not appeared together since the great 5 age of Athenian eloquence.1 There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 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, 30 the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 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 stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 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... | |
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