 He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.  The enthusiasts - Sida 15efter Robert Plumer Ward - 1839Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 sidor
...influence over his hearers. " He forgot himself," says Sir James Mackintosh, "and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." — Quarterly Review. " In the most imperfect relic of Fox's speeches," said Erskine,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 sidor
...him the most powerful reasoner of the age.' ' He possessed beyond all moderns,' wrote Mackintosh, ' that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence which formed the prince of orators.' ' Had he been bred to the bar,' wrote Philip Francis, ' he would in my judgment have made himself in... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 904 sidor
...statesman has had so large an influence upon the politics of England. Mackintosh says of him : " lie certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." — See " Character of the late Charles James Fox," by Dr. Samuel Parr... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sidor
...answered in the affirmative he would say : " Then it was a bad one." Says Sir James Mackintosh : " He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." And Edmund Burke pronounced him the most brilliant and accomplished debater that the world had ever... | |
 | 1883 - 666 sidor
...meets within its course. " He forgot himself," says Sir James Mackintosh, " and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." He had a shrill voice, but some of the undertones in it were very sweet. His pronunciation... | |
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1883 - 128 sidor
...-prodigal VourT} ^5T° ' T \of_». (and) virtue and. (of)-ahs. Itch] in— If. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 8. He I possessed of— reason, C»f) — simplicity, C»f)-veliemenee. - - - -- which prince tftf-l... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 sidor
...and every thing around him: he thought only of his subject his genius warmed and kindled as he went the Tartar's coast, t,65 She sweeps the howling margin...main; Where undissolving, from the first of time, Snow convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Perry - 1887 - 644 sidor
...James Mackintosh has said that Charles James Fox " was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." Cicero was a very different orator from Demosthenes, as different as the Romans were from the Grecians.... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 sidor
...and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept across their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason,... | |
 | Newton Booth - 1894 - 552 sidor
...debater the world has ever known." Sir James Mclntosh, a calm and philosophic observer, said : '' Fox certainly possessed above all moderns that union of...the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." When Fox was but twenty-four, in 1773, " on the ninth of April Horace Walpole... | |
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