 | 1827 - 790 pages
...compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun ; " — and Mr Pitt acknowledged, " that it surpassed all the eloquence...could furnish, to agitate and controul the human mind. " — ' And when we recollect, ' adds Mr Moore, ' the men by whom the House of Commons was at that... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...compared to it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun. Mr. Pitt confessed that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed every quality of excellence that genius or art could furnish to agitate, and control the human mind. " After... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...compared to it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun. Mr. Pitt confessed that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed every quality of excellence that genius or art could furnish to agitate, and control the humffl mind. •... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 426 pages
...eloquence of an" cient or modern times, and thai " his speech (on the third charge " against -Mr. Hastings) possessed " every, thing that genius or art " could furnish, to agitate and " control the human mind." The next great occasion in which the powers of his eloquence were called... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...eloquence of an" cient or modern times, and that " his speech (on the third charge " against Mr. Hastings) possessed " every thing that genius or art " could furnish, to agitate and " control the human mind." -: The next great occasion in which the powers of his eloquence were called... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...eloquence of ancient or modern times, and that his speech (on the third charge against Mr. Hastings possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind." " The next great occasirn in which the powers of his eloquence were called... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 472 pages
...read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun. Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it surpassed all the eloquence...could furnish to agitate and controul the human mind. The effects it produced were proportioned to its merits. After a considerable suspension of the debate,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 422 pages
...read when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that it surpassed all the eloquence...thing that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind. The effects it produced were proportioned to its merits. After a considerable... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 428 pages
...it,' dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged, that-it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times,...thing that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind. The effects it produced were proportioned to its merits. After a considerable... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pages
...acknowledged, " that he had surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times ; and that this speech possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish to agitate and conlroul the human miud." This Vas not the only occasion on which Mr. Pitt bowed to the superior eloquence... | |
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Mr. Fox said, 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. 
