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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems - Page 133
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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The American Eclectic, Volume 3

1842 - 654 pages
...Chancellor ; and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling-bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...Chancellor; and, for a moment, seemed to I pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies \ in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...Chancellor; and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. Tho ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams wero heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his...
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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till the old arches of Irish oak resounded, " Therefore," said he, " hath it with...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...from all; and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the ooca•ion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in & state of incontrollable...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed VOL-. V. 9 to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity...carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till the old arches of Irish oak resounded, " Therefore," said he, " hath it with...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the Defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...smelling bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs ai d screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was cai rietl out in a fit. At length the orator concluded....
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...man, and friendly to Hastings. excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not un« willing to display their taste and sensibility, were in a...out; smelling bottles were handed round ; hysterical cries and sobs were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded....
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...chancellor,0 and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of...and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensi5 bility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling-bottles...
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