 | 1808 - 546 pages
...taught him, into one great scale, and the improvement which he had derived from his right honorable friend's instruction and conversation were placed...a loss to decide, to which to give the preference. He had learnt more from his right honorable friend, than from all the men with whom he had ever conversed.... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1815 - 620 pages
...which he held his friendship, that if he were to put all the political information which he had learnt from books, all which he had gained from science,...a loss to decide to which to give the preference. He had learnt more from his right honourable friend than from all the men with whom he had ever conversed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 588 pages
...which he held his friendship, that if he were to put all the political information which he had learnt from books, all which he had gained from science,...a loss to decide to which to give the preference. He had learnt more from his right honourable friend than from all the men with whom he had ever conversed.... | |
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...have derived from my right honorable friend's instruction and conversation were placed in the other, I should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference. I have learned more from my right honorable friend than from all the men with whom I ever conversed."... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...improvements which he had derived from his right honourable friend's instruction and conversation into the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference. He had learnt more from his right honourable friend, than from all the men with whom he had ever conversed."... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 524 pages
...acknowledgment of all that he himself had gained by their intercourse : — " Such (he said) was his sense of the judgment of his Right Honourable Friend,...— nor, except in what related to the judgment and CHAP. principles of his friend, was it at all exaggerated. 1_ The conversation of Burke must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 826 pages
...acknowledgment of all that he himself had gained by their intercourse : — " Such (he said) was his sense of the judgment of his Right Honourable Friend,...as Mr. Fox, was the very highest praise ; — nor, 103 except in what related to the judgment and CHAP. XIV principles of his friend, was it at all exaggerated.... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...improvements which he bad derived from his right honourable friend's instruction and conversation into the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference. He had learnt more from his right honourable friend, than from all the men with whom he had ever conversed,"... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 pages
...knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which be derived from his right honourable friend's instruction...loss to decide to which to give the preference."* The foregoing words do great credit to the candour of Mr. Fox, but in the opinion of the annalist,... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he had derived from his right honourable friend in the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference." Yet, with all these extraordinary qualities, his influence in the house of commons was very trifling... | |
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... if he were to put all the political information which he had learned from books, all which he had gained from science, and all which any knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he had derived... 
