 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...and aa audience of distinguished visiters. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most astonishing eflbrt of eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing,... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...from that consummate moment must date its decline." Vol. i. pp. 449—451. " Mr. Burke declared it to be ' the most astonishing effort of eloquence,...which there was any record or tradition.' Mr. Fox said, 'All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 584 pages
...effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared withit, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun ;" — and Mr. Pitt acknowledged... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 796 pages
...astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, ' All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.' Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it surpassed... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 258 pages
...turned the balance against Hastings, aiid decided the impeachment." Of this speech Mr Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence,...of which there was any record or tradition." Mr Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 698 pages
...astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said, " all that he had ever heard, all that he had...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing;" and Pitt — even the cold, reserved Pitt — confessed that, in his opinion, " it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...the speaker, are the only medium through which a judgment on it can be formed. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradidition. Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, • 119 to 79. t Moore's... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...the speaker, are the only medium through which a judgment on it can be formed. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradidition. Mr. Fox said, " All that he had ever heard, • 119 to 79. t Moore's... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1843 - 348 pages
...house, and an audience of distinguished visiters. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most as tonishing effort of eloquence., argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...most astonishing effort of eloquence and argument of which there is any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said: "All that he had ever heard, all that he had...compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like a vapor before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient and modern... | |
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All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun. 
