 | 1791 - 416 pages
...his right honourable friend ? He had been warned by high and rao'.l refpeftable '( Toil authorities, that minute difcuffion of great events, without information,...wrote, or the tongue that fpoke the words. If the Commute" mould decide that his right honourable friend fhould purfue his argument on theFrcnch conftitution,... | |
 | Parliament proc - 1791 - 710 pages
...differ from his right honourable friend ? He hnd been warned by high and moft refpeflable authorities, that minute difcuffion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote, or the fongue that fpoke the words. If the Committee fhould decide that his right honourable friend fhould... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1815 - 620 pages
...honourable friend. He had been warned by high and most respectable authorities, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote, or the tongue that spoke the words. If the committee should decide that his right honourable friend should pursue his... | |
 | 1822 - 874 pages
...honourable friend? He had been warned by high and most respectable authorities, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote, or the tongue that spoke the words. If the Committee should decide that his right honourable friend should pursue his... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 496 pages
...now used were : " He had been warned by high and most respectable authority, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote or the tongue that spoke the words." And this was followed by an insolent sneer. If, he said, the committee should decide... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 488 pages
...now used were : " He had been warned by high and most respectable authority, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote or the tongue that spoke the words." And this was followed by an insolent sneer. If, he said, the committee should decide... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 488 pages
...now used were : " He had been warned by high and most respectable authority, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote or the tongue that spoke the words." And this was followed by an insolent sneer. If, he said, the committee should decide... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 400 pages
...explanation. Unfortunately, he went on to taunt Mr. Burke with the opinion that " Minute discussion of great events without information did no honour to the pen that wrote or the tongue that spoke the words." He was sorry Mr. Burke had learnt to draw an indictment against a whole people, and... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1860 - 834 pages
...of the grossest ignorance of France and of the French Revolution. " Minute discussion," said he, " of great events without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote or the tongue that spoke the words." This was going far : but Fox even went further. One of the most beautiful sentences... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 640 pages
...burst of indignation at " the little dogs," in answer to the taunt of Fox, that "minute discussions on great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote, or the tongue that spoke, the words," addressed him no longer as " his honourable friend." He complained of the asperity... | |
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He had been warned by high and most respectable authorities, that minute discussion of great events, without information, did no honour to the pen that wrote, or the tongue that spoke the words. 
