 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 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... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...Princesses of Oude, the effect of which is said to have heen without parallel. Burke described it as "the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition ;" whilst Fox said : " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it,... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...eminence. His speech on the trial of Warren Hastings was declared by Burke to have been " the moat astonishing effort of eloquence, argument and wit,...united, of which there was any record or tradition." He prepared his speeches with unusual care. "He never made a speech of any moment," says his biographer,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1879 - 568 pages
...certainly was there such unanimous testirnonj to surpassing merit. Burke declared this speech to tv ' 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...still remains one of the most precious souvenirs of the House of Commons. Burke pronounced it — " The most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united of which there was any record or tradition ;" and Pitt, who cannot be suspected of any party bias, affirmed that " it surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant - 1883 - 216 pages
...and irregular in the House, by loudly and repeatedly clapping with their hands. 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... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...iniud." Burke was equally enthusiastic. He declared the speech to be " the most astonishing effect of eloquence, argument and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." As a climax to these splendid eulogies, Sir W. Dolben moved the adjournment of the debate, on the grounds... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1884 - 388 pages
...eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." 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." And Pitt acknowledged, " that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient and... | |
 | Charles MacCarthy Collins - English poetry - 1885 - 350 pages
...possessed all that genius and art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind;' Burke declared it to be 'the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition ;' and Fox said, ' all that he had ever heard or read when compared with it dwindled into nothing,... | |
 | Charles MacCarthy Collins - Composers - 1885 - 352 pages
...possessed all that genius and art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind;' Burke declared it to be 'the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,...united, of which there was any record or tradition ;' and Fox said, ' all that he had ever heard or read when compared with it dwindled into nothing,... | |
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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. 
