| British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 páginas
...Explain the references in the following quotations, and state the name of the author of each : — (a.) There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. (6.) "Mad, is he?" returned the old King, "then I hope lie will bite some others of my generals." (c.)... | |
| 1842 - 654 páginas
...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,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 772 páginas
...original genius. This is how Mr. Macaulay describes great men: — There were Fox and Sheridan, tlie English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There...ignorant indeed, or negligent, of the art of adapting hie reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...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...contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeaied 'ogether since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 1064 páginas
...public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and hit urbanity. But, in spite of the absence of these two...distinguished members of the Lower House, the box iu which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeal ed together... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 páginas
...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... | |
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