 | 1877 - 588 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides ; there was Burke — ignorant,... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence, was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...and his friends were left without the help of his escellem sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...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 [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...of his excellent sense, his tact and his urbanity. Bat in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...of his appearance, had paid to the illustrious tribunal the compliment of wearing a bag and sword. The box in which the managers stood contained an array...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 - 1860 - 588 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...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 - 1860 - 1078 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence wiis wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...left without the help of his excellent sense, his taut, and hLs urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence w;is wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age imd blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of...without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and hia urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...public prosecutor; and his friends were left without his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the...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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Fox, generally so regardless of his appearance, had paid to the illustrious tribunal the compliment of wearing a bag and sword. Pitt had refused to be one of the conductors of the impeachment; and his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting... 
