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" A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age; and the treasury trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman,... "
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 348
by Horace Walpole - 1806
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Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published ...

1773 - 438 pages
...ruin of his victories— — But the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His eloquence was an a :va in the fenate ; peculiar, and fpontaneous,. familiarly expreffing gigantic fentiments and inltindlive...
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Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published ...

Baratariana - 1773 - 434 pages
...imagined, indeed, that (he had found defects in this ftatefman, and talked much of the inconjipency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories But the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political...
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of ..., Volume 2

John Almon - 1792 - 458 pages
...imagined, indeed, that fhe had found defects in this ftatefman, and talked much of the inconiitlency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories ; but the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 23

1793 - 548 pages
...ruin of his viflorics— but the hiftory of his country, and ihe calamities of rile enemy, anfweied and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities...His eloquence was an aera in the Senate peculiar and fpomaneous, familiarly expr'clfing- gigantic lentimentf and infirnetive wifd'im : not like the torrent...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 1

1797 - 610 pages
...the ruin of his viftories ; but the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anlwered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities...his only talents : his eloquence was an aera in the fenate, peculiar and fpontaneous, familiarly expreifmg gigantic fentiments and inftinftive wifdom ;...
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Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of ...

Thomas Campbell - 1807 - 556 pages
...found in this statesman many defects, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much »f the ruin of his victories, but the history of his country, and the calamit'es of the enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents....
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

1808 - 540 pages
...trembled at the name of PITT through all her classes of Venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy refuted her. " Nor were his political abilities his only talents : his eloquence was an sera in the...
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Anecdotes of the life of ... William Pitt, earl of Chatham [by J ..., Volume 3

John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...spontaneous, familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instinctive wisdom; not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflar grationof Tully;it...
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl ..., Volume 3

John Almon - 1810 - 404 pages
...trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilitie^his only talents. His eloquence was an sera in the senate ; peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - 1813 - 324 pages
...trembled at the name of Pitt through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...abilities his only talents. — His eloquence was an era in the senate, peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instinctive...
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