 | Art - 1869 - 384 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English literature - 1873 - 508 pages
...compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun." Burke called it " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition;" and Pitt said "that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times." Sheridan was for some... | |
 | Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - Great Britain - 1874 - 432 pages
...Sir E. Impey. It will be, I think, just three weeks hence ; 2 and he has 1 Burke declared this speech 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... | |
 | Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - Great Britain - 1874 - 492 pages
...Sir E. Impey. It will be, I think, just three weeks hence ; * and he has 1 Burke declared this speech to be 'the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition.' Mr. Foz said, ' All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - Elocution - 1874 - 200 pages
...words of Mr. Pitt, " under the wand of the enchanter." Burke said of it that it was " the most splendid effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united of which there was any record on tradition." Speaking . of his second speech on this cause, he said that " no man of any description,... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 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... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...House of Lords in the great trial of Warren Hastings, Burke pronounced " the most astonishing efibrt of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." To this illustrious list must still be added the names of Grattan, Canning, and Brougham whose speeches... | |
 | Great Britain - 1878 - 806 pages
...out some years later in his charge relative to the Begum Princess of Oude. Burke declared this speech to be the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united of which there was any record or tradition. Fox said that all he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 516 pages
...everything that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind." Burke pronounced it " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition." The debate was adjourned, in order that members might not vote while under the influence of Sheridan's... | |
 | William Mathews - Orators - 1878 - 464 pages
...that__the^,Oppoiltion may fairly be charged with sorcery. jTFox, a severe nudge, declared that " all that he ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared...with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun." Burke,, Pitt, Windham and Wilberforce, agreed in placing it above all other,... | |
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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. 
