 ... for all the declamation in the world; ingenious topics, fine comparisons, cases in point, epigrammatic sentences, all passed innocuous over his head. So the storms of passion blew unheeded past one whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path...  Talleyrand: A Biographical Study - Page 211by Joseph McCabe - 1907 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and far-fetched and fine-spun argument,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 420 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and far-fetched and fine-spun argument,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 350 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and far-fetched and fine-spun argument,... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 440 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and far-fetched and fine-spun argument,... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk and far-fetched and fine-spun argument, without... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk and far-fetched and fine-spun argument without... | |
 | Charles King McHarg - France - 1857 - 424 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path toward his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk and far-fetched and fine-spun argument, without... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and farfetched and fine-spun argument, without... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 464 pages
...whose temper nothing could rufHe, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and farfetched and fine-spun argument, without... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...whose temper nothing could ruffle, and whose path towards his object nothing could obstruct. It was a lesson and a study, as well as a marvel, to see him disconcert, with a look of his keen eye, or a motion of his chin, a whole piece of wordy talk, and far-fetched and fine-spun argument,... | |
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