 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1853 - 508 pages
...or correctness, nor his method, yet his arguments were far more shrewd. He was many years younger. Burke was indefatigable, learned, and versed in every...thousand pounds the preceding day ; he had stopped at Hochcrel, where he found company, had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he came... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...answered Mr. Burke and Lord North in a signal manner, yet we are told that on that very morning he had returned from Newmarket, where he had lost some thousand pounds the preceding day ; that finding some company at Hockerell, he sat up all the night, drinking, and had not been in bed... | |
 | Great Britain. Census Office - Great Britain - 1854 - 234 pages
...prodigious genius." He arrived on the morning that he proposed, in 1772, the repeal of the Marriage Act, from Newmarket, where he had lost "some thousand pounds the preceding day," and in 1773-74 was deeply involved in pecuniary embarrassments. He was not then twentyfive years of... | |
 | Census office - 1854 - 236 pages
...prodigious genius." He arrived on the morning that he proposed, in 1772, the repeal of the Marriage Act, from Newmarket, where he had lost " some thousand pounds the preceding day," and in 1773-74 was deeply involved in pecuniary embarrassments. He was not then twentyfive years of... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...Walpole, in a passage dated April 7th of this year, says : " Fox was dissolute, dissipated, idle f beyond measure. He was that very morning returned...Newmarket, where he had lost some thousand pounds the * Imaginary Conversations. f " Those who held his opinions were almost sorry that ho should have held... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...language or correctness in hie method. Yet his arguments were far more shrewd : he was many years younger. Burke was indefatigable, learned, and versed in every...Fox was dissolute, dissipated, idle beyond measure." Here is a comparison between Fox and tiie second Pitt : — " Fox left by neglect some advantages to... | |
 | 1873 - 892 pages
...vehemently opposed ; and Walpole, after commending the ease, grace, and clearness of his speech, says : — He was that very morning returned from Newmarket,...thousand pounds the preceding day. He had stopped at Ilockcril, where he found company — had sat up all night drinking, and had not been ia bed when he... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 596 pages
...opposed ; and Walpole, after commending the ease, grace, and clearness of his speech, says : — ' He was that very morning returned from Newmarket,...thousand pounds the preceding day. He had stopped at Hockeril, where he found company — had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...and clearness of his speech, says : — ' Ho was that very morning returned from Newmarket, where ho had lost some thousand pounds the preceding day. He had stopped at Hockeril, where he found company — had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...vehemently opposed; and Walpole, after commending the ease, grace, and clearness of his speech, says : — ' He was that very morning returned from Newmarket,...thousand pounds the preceding day. He had stopped at Hockeril, where he found company — had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he... | |
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Hochcrel, where he found company, had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he came to move his bill, which he had not even drawn up. This was genius, was almost inspiration. 
