 | William Haig Miller - 1851 - 142 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 of ancient or modern times, and possessed everything that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind. Sir William Dolben... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 340 pages
...vanished EICHAED BEINSLEY SHEEIDAH. like vapour before the sun. Mr. Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed...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... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...vapor before the sun ; — and Mr. Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient and modern times, and possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish to agitate or control the human mind. Mr. Burke said that it was the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...adjourned, with the concurrence of Sheridan's great adversary, Pitt, who acknowledged that the speech surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed every thiug that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind. Mr. Eurke spoke of his... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1858 - 326 pages
...before the sun ;" — and Mr. Pitt acknowledged "that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancie.nt and modern times, and possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind." There were several other tributes, of a less distit^uished kind, of which... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 520 pages
...But these were partisans. Even Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient and modern times, and possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind." One member confessed himself so unhinged by it, that he moved an adjournment,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...before the sun ;" — and Mr Pitt acknowledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient and modern times, and possessed every thing that genius or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human mind." Mr Bisset, in his ' History of the Reign of Geoige III.,' states that "the... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 814 pages
...said of Sheridan's speech iu the Hastings trial at Westminster. He declared of that celebrated oration that it " surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed everything that genius or art could furnish to agitate or control the human mind." OUE CEESCENT. А... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant - 1883 - 216 pages
...vapour before the sun.' Mr. Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or of modern times, and possessed every- . 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... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1884 - 154 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 of ancient or modern times, and possessed everything that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind. Sir William Dolben... | |
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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. 
