 A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age; and the treasury trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman,...  A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Страница 317по Horace Walpole - 1806Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1773 - 438 страници
...ruin of his victories— — But the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents. His eloquence was an a :va in the fenate ; peculiar, and fpontaneous,. familiarly expreffing gigantic fentiments and inltindlive... | |
 | Baratariana - 1773 - 434 страници
...imagined, indeed, that (he had found defects in this ftatefman, and talked much of the inconjipency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories But the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political... | |
 | John Almon - 1792 - 458 страници
...imagined, indeed, that fhe had found defects in this ftatefman, and talked much of the inconiitlency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories ; but the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political... | |
 | 1793 - 548 страници
...ruin of his viflorics— but the hiftory of his country, and ihe calamities of rile enemy, anfweied and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities...His eloquence was an aera in the Senate peculiar and fpomaneous, familiarly expr'clfing- gigantic lentimentf and infirnetive wifd'im : not like the torrent... | |
 | 1797 - 610 страници
...the ruin of his viftories ; but the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anlwered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities...his only talents : his eloquence was an aera in the fenate, peculiar and fpontaneous, familiarly expreifmg gigantic fentiments and inftinftive wifdom ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1807 - 556 страници
...found in this statesman many defects, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much »f the ruin of his 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.... | |
 | 1808 - 540 страници
...trembled at the name of PITT through all her classes of Venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy refuted her. " Nor were his political abilities his only talents : his eloquence was an sera in the... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 436 страници
...trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...spontaneous, familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instinctive wisdom; not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflar grationof Tully;it... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 404 страници
...trembled at the name of Pitt, through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...enemy, answered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilitie^his only talents. His eloquence was an sera in the senate ; peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 страници
...trembled at the name of Pitt through all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked...abilities his only talents. — His eloquence was an era in the senate, peculiar and spontaneous, familiarly expressing gigantic sentiments and instinctive... | |
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