 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his escellem sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1078 pages
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his taut, and hLs urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appealed together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and hia urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appealed together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the Engltsh Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his "urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the manager stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...for the duties of a public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence...Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignoant, indeed, or negligent, of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...dnties of a public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant,... | |
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... and his commanding, copious and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense,... 
