 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1796 - 514 pages
...difplayed his ufual talents; the former, taking the vaft compafs of the qucftion before us, difcovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. We voted an addrefs, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 434 pages
...difplayed his ufual talents; the former, taking the vaft compafs of the queftion before us, difcovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. We voted an addrefs,( three hundred and four to one hundred and five , ) of lives and fortunes /declaring... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1803 - 520 pages
...difplayed his ufual talents : the former, taking the vaft compafs of the queftion before us, difcovercd powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." ike Gibbon's Letter to lord Sheffield, 1775. CHAP, fuch colony mould alfo engage to provide for the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 544 pages
...latter displayed his usual talents ; the former, taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. We voted an address, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 904 pages
...first great speech ; and, as we learn from a letter of Gibbon, the historian, to Lord Sheffield, that he " discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded." I cannot forbear to insert a condensed view of the course of argument of the members of Parliament... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 520 pages
...latter displayed h1« usual talents; the former, taking the vast compass of the quest1on before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." Miscellaneous Works, vol. 1. p, 489, D ^ Parliament, earlier in their application, and more vigorous... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...marked by decided ability, had hitherto been desultory and occasional; but he now (as Gibbon said) discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. Mr. Grattan (as we learn from Lord John), who had heard Mr. Fox at various epochs, declared his preference... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
...was steady and uninterrupted. So early as the beginning of 1 7? ">• we arc told by Gibbon, that " he discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." But, notwithstanding the brilliancy of his talents, and the reputation he acquired in the House of... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...Fox was steady and uninterrupted. So early as the beginning of 1775, we are told by Gibbon, that " he discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." But, notwithstanding the brilliancy of his talents, and the reputation he acquired in the House of... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1827 - 386 pages
...latter displayed his usual talents ; the former, taking the vast compass of the question before us, Discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded. We voted an address, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
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The principal men both days were Fox and Wedderburne, on the opposite sides ; the latter displayed his usual talents ; the former taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped,... 
