 The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and artistic finish to Thomas...  Technology Review - Page 1591901Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 742 pages
...three-quarters of the eighteenth century, the wages of the labourer were again depressed duringthe last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, when the old rates continued and wheat kept rising; for the average price between 1801 and... | |
 | 1846 - 632 pages
...personally acquainted. The statesman, i»nliiical есовсчшч the rs.iiyist, the poet and the novelist of the last quarter of the eighteenth, and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, are exhibited in bold relief, by the hand of a master; and the critical analysis c. them Ins ailbnlcd... | |
 | John Glyde - 1856 - 426 pages
...times as much as the county rate, and three times as much as the land tax. It increased greatly during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries. During the three years ending 1750, the amount collected averaged £28,063 per annum ; in... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 406 pages
...Memoir (now added), by E. WALFORD Esq., MA ** The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament oral the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1872 - 584 pages
...E. WALFORD, Esq., MA 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | Chalmers Izett Paton - 1872 - 464 pages
...Walford, Esq., MA 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s. " The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | William Holden Spilsbury - 1873 - 294 pages
...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, "which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | Fabliaux - 1873 - 360 pages
...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1873 - 508 pages
...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
 | Chalmers Izett Paton - 1873 - 560 pages
...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and... | |
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