 ... all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities...  Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition - Page 137by John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 546 pages
...spontaneous, familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instructive wisdom ; not like the torrents of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflagration of Tully...thunder and sometimes the • music of the spheres. It lightened on the subject, and reached the point by the flashings of the mind ; which like those... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...victories, but the history of his country, and the calamit'es of the enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His eloquence was an era in tlte senate : pecul'ar and spontaneous, famil'arly expressing gigantic ideas aud inst'nctive wisdom.... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...enemy refuted her. " Nor were his political abilities his only talents : his eloquence was an sera in the senate, peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly...torrent of DEMOSTHENES, or the splendid conflagration of T0LLY, it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of the fpheres. He did not, like... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...answered .and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His eloquence was an aera in the senate ; peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly...not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflar grationof Tully;it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of the spheres.... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 404 pages
...answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilitie^his only talents. His eloquence was an sera in the senate ; peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly...not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid confla^ grationof Tullyjit resembled sometimes the thunder,, and sometimes the music of the spheres.... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...victories ; but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. —...and sometimes the music of the spheres. He did not conduct the understanding through the painful subtilty of argumentation ; nor was he for ever on the... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...victories ; but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His...was an era in the senate ; peculiar and spontaneous ; familiarity expressing gigantic sentiments, and instinctive wisdom ; not like the torrent of Demosthenes,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...answered and refuted her. ' Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His eloquence was an sera in the senate, peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly...the thunder, and sometimes the music of the spheres. Like Murray, he did not conduct the understanding through the painful subtilty of argumentation ; nor... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instructive wisdom ; not like the torrent of Demosthenes, pr the splendid conflagration of Tully, it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of gpheres. Like Murray, he did not conduct ^ standing through the painful subtlety of . -""'Nor was he,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...and refuted' her. Nor were his political' abilities his only' talents. His eloquence' was an asra' in the senate, peculiar' and spontaneous', familiarly...and sometimes the music' of the spheres. He did not conduct the understanding through the painful subtil ty of argumentation' ; nor was he for ever on... | |
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