 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 Seiten
...If Johnson was thinking of him, he differed widely in opinion from Gibbon, who describes North as ' a consummate master of debate, who could wield with...equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule.' Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 221. On May 2, 1775, he wrote: — ' If they turned out Lord North to-morrow,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...and passions of the first men of the age. The cause of government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master...arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the Treasury-bench between his Attorney and Solicitor General, the two pillars of the law and state, magis... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 Seiten
...was ably vindicated by lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate nusln of delule, who could wield, with equal dexterity, the arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated он the treasury-bench, between his attorney and solicitor-general, the two pillars of the law and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 Seiten
...and passions of the first men of the age. The cause of government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master...arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the Treasury-bench between his Attorney and Solicitor General, the two pillars of the law and state, magis... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 Seiten
...age. The cause of government was ably vindicated by Lm-dJVorth, л statesman of spotless ititegrity.a consummate master of debate, who could wield, with...arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the treasury-bench between his Attorney and Solicitor General, the two pillars of the law and state, magis... | |
 | 1818 - 590 Seiten
...alliance ; and he is represented by his friend Mr. Gibbon, " as a statesman of spotless integrity, and a consummate master of debate, who could wield with...equal dexterity, the arms of reason, and of ridicule." On his return from Switzerland, this celebrated historian observes, " the house in London, which I... | |
 | 1818 - 486 Seiten
...alliance ; and he is represented by his friend Mr. Gibbon, " as a statesman of spotless integrity, and a consummate master of debate, who could wield with...equal dexterity, the arms of reason, and of ridicule." On his return from Switzerland, this celebrated historian observes, " the house in London, which I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 Seiten
...and passions, of the first men of the age. The cause of government was ably vindicated by lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master...arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the treasury-bench between his attorney and solicitorgeneral, the two pillars of the law and state, magis... | |
 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...passions, of the first men of the age. , The cause of government was ably vindicated by/ord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master...arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the treasury-bench between his attorney and solicitorgeneral, the two pillars of the law and state, magis... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 Seiten
...and passions of the first men of the age. The cause of government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master...seated on the treasury bench, between his attorney and solicitor general, the two pillars of the law and state, " magis pares quam similes ;" and the minister... | |
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The cause of Government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master of debate, who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule. 
