 | Early English newspapers - 1860 - 1028 pages
...on the líegum Princesses of Oude to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, ¡»id wit united, of which there was any record or tradition.' .Mr. Fox said, "All that he had ever heard, all that he bad ever read, when compared wilh it, dwindled into... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 504 pages
...favor with, and says that the Opposition may be fairly charged with sorcery. Burke declared the speech to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence,...united, of w.hich there was any record or tradition." Fox affirmed that " all he had ever heard, all he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1861 - 420 pages
...hours and a half in the delivery. All parties agreed in its extravagant praise. Fox said, that all he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when...with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun. Burke and Pitt declared it to be unequalled in ancient or modern eloquence. Logan,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...and the excitement produced was so great that the debate was instantly adjourned. Burke declared it " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition." No report of any value exists of this speech. In the subsequent trial of Hastings in Westminster ball,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862 - 496 pages
...Never certainly was there such unanimous testimony to surpassing merit. Burke declared this speech to be "the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united of which there is any record or tradition." Fox said : " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...turned the balance against Hastings, and decided the impeachment." Of this speech Mr Burke declared it to be "the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1866 - 326 pages
...Bill of Pains and Penalties against Sir Thomas Rumbold, finally withdrawn. f 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 thai he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...upon its hearers has no parallel in the annals of ancient or modern eloquence. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...of which there was any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, all he had ever heard, or that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing,... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1867 - 40 pages
...which they themselves were no mean masters. What shall we think of a speech which Mr. Burke declared to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence,...united, of which there was any record or tradition ;" of which Mr. Fox said "all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pages
...Begum Princesses of Oude. Its effect upon the audience had no parallel in history. Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence,...united, of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said, " all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled... | |
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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. 
