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" ... 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... "
Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 176
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 227 pages
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The baptist Magazine

1877 - 588 pages
...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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The American Eclectic, Volume 3

1842 - 654 pages
...public prosecutor ; 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...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 1

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...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,...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...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,...
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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact and his urbanity. Bat 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,...
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The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and hia urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appealed together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his taut, and hLs urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appealed together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...duties of a 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...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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