| William Field - 1828 - 490 pages
...and the ardour of a reformer, without his impetuosity. His taste in morals, like that of Mr. Burke, is equally pure and delicate with his taste in literature....eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance."' The reader is... | |
| 1832 - 628 pages
...into romance. His philosophy is far more just, and far more amiable, than the philosophy of Paine,and his eloquence is only 'not equal to the eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." The Vindicite Gallics,... | |
| 1832 - 728 pages
...into romance. His philosophy is far more just, and lar more amiable, than the philosophy of Paine,aud his eloquence is only not equal to the eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without •ophisiry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." The... | |
| 1833 - 492 pages
...and the ardour of a reformer without his impetuosity. His taste in morals, like that of Mr. Burke, is equally pure and delicate with his taste in literature....eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." Perhaps one of... | |
| 1833 - 646 pages
...and the ardour of a reformer without his impetuosity. His taste in morals, like that of Mr. Burke, is equally pure and delicate with his taste in literature....eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance.' "—p. 102. In... | |
| 1833 - 490 pages
...and delicate with his taste in literature. His mind is so comprehensive, that generalities .(fease to be barren ; and so vigorous, that detail itself...eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." Perhaps one of... | |
| 1833 - 600 pages
...every question with perspicuity, states it with precision, and pursues it with easy, unaffected method. His philosophy is far more just, and far more amiable...eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." A passage from... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 526 pages
...excursions into paradox, but he never bewilders them by flights into romance. His philosophy is fer more just and far more amiable than the philosophy...candid, political enemy. Mr. Canning, dining one day, tite-ii-tete, at Bellamy's, with Mr. Sharp, in the course of conversation observed, that he had read... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 264 pages
...acrimony, and the ardour of a reformer without his impetuosity. His taste in morals, like that of Mr Burke, is equally pure and delicate with his taste in literature....eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." Perhaps one of... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...by flights into romance. His philosophy is far more just, and far more amiable, than the philosopby of Paine, and his eloquence is only not equal to the...eloquence of Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance." Perhaps one of... | |
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