 | 1883 - 666 páginas
...meets within its course. " He forgot himself," says Sir James Mackintosh, " and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." He had a shrill voice, but some of the undertones in it were very sweet. His pronunciation... | |
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1883 - 128 páginas
...-prodigal VourT} ^5T° ' T \of_». (and) virtue and. (of)-ahs. Itch] in— If. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 8. He I possessed of— reason, C»f) — simplicity, C»f)-veliemenee. - - - -- which prince tftf-l... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 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 on....irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Perry - 1887 - 644 páginas
...James Mackintosh has said that Charles James Fox " was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." Cicero was a very different orator from Demosthenes, as different as the Romans were from the Grecians.... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 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...Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept across their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason,... | |
 | Newton Booth - 1894 - 552 páginas
...debater the world has ever known." Sir James Mclntosh, a calm and philosophic observer, said : '' Fox certainly possessed above all moderns that union of...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." When Fox was but twenty-four, in 1773, " on the ninth of April... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 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...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." Lord Brougham in contradiction to this last sentence remarks... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1900 - 274 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... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 páginas
...towered above him in the gloom. Upward, an adverb, modifies looked. 133 — 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence which formed the prince of orators. The subordinate clause, which formed, etc., modifies union. 133 — 9. Mark well my fall, and that1... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - 868 páginas
...James Mackintosh has said that Charles James Pox "was the most Demosthenean sneaker since Demosthenes. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." Cicero was a very different orator from Demosthenes, as different as the Romans were from the Grecians.... | |
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... around him : he thought only of his subject : his genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction. 
