 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was defective. " Mr. Canning possessed, in a high degree, the outward advantages of an orator. His expressive countenance... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was defective. " Mr. Canning possessed, in a high degree, the outward advantages of an orator. His expressive countenance... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...even in its more elevated parts. It sparkled with imagery,and was brightened by illustration ; in both of which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took In debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that accomplished man had no such means nf strengthening and displaying. In some qualities of style, Mr. Canning surpassed Mr. Pitt. His diction... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 736 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was defective. Mr. Canning possessed, in a high degree, the outward advantages of an orator ; his expressive countenance... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1835 - 740 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...various, sometimes more simple, more idiomatical, even irt its more elevated parts. It sparkled with imagery, and was brightened by illustration, in both... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to «how a knowledge which Sheridan did not poisesi, and a readiness which that accomplished man had no...style Mr. Canning surpassed Mr. Pitt. His diction WM more various, sometimes more simple, more idiomatical even in its more elevated p&rte. It sparkled... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he was called upon to show a knowledge which Sheridan did not possess, and a readiness which that...brightened by illustration ; in both of which Mr. Pitt, /or .so i;it -;it an orator, was defective. No English speaker used the keen and brilliant weapon of... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 532 pages
...Mackintosh, " Mr. Canning seems to be the best model of the adorned style. — In some qualities of style he surpassed Mr. Pitt. His diction was more various,...which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was defective. Mr. Canning possessed in a high degree the outward advantages of an orator; his expressive countenance... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 pages
...to be the bes: model of the adorned style. — In come qualities of style he surpassed Mr. Pitt, f His diction was more various, sometimes more simple,...which Mr. Pitt, for so great an orator, was defective. Mr. Canning possessed in a high degree the outward advantages of an orator ; his expressive countenance... | |
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... the specimens preserved of his most celebrated speeches show too much of the exaggeration and excess to which those are peculiarly liable who seek by art and effort what nature has denied. By the constant part which Mr. Canning took in debate, he... 
