| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. " I knew him," says Mr. Burke, in a pamphlet written after... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 páginas
...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thin« around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents ol impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction. He certainly possessed... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 934 páginas
...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence,... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 428 páginas
...audience ; torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes."* Lord Brougham has criticised this comparison of Fox to Demosthenes,... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 552 páginas
...Grant, to which Fox replied at the moment with wonderful effectt " Fox's Speeches," vol. ip xiii. as lie went on ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence... | |
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 páginas
...looked upward at the rugged heights that towered above him in the gloom. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 9. Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me. — Shakespeare. 10. The jingling of the guinea helps... | |
| John Spencer Pearsall - 1869 - 250 páginas
...hesitating manner; yet, says Sir James Mackintosh, " he forgot himself and everything around him ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." Edmund Burke, in addition to other defects, had a delivery harsh and frigid, and his... | |
| Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 páginas
...was changed into another being. He forgot r.imself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. " I knew him," says Mr. Burke, in a pamphlet written after... | |
| Albert M. Bacon - 1872 - 294 páginas
...of that higher type which consists of " reason and passion fused together." Mackintosh says : — " He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." Says Dr. Johnson : " Here is a man who has divided a kingdom... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 1324 páginas
...other statesman has had so large an influence upon the politics of England. Mackintosh says of him : " He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." — See " Character of the late Charles James Fox," by Dr.... | |
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