 | Charles Edward Drummond Black - 1903 - 484 pages
...of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said " all that he had ever read when compared with it dwindled into nothing and vanished like a vapour before the sun." Mr. Pitt acknowledged that " it surpassed all eloquence of... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 542 pages
...cheers. Burke declared it to be the most extraordinary effort he had ever witnessed; while Fox said, "all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapor before the sun." Even Pitt, who had frequently satirized the dramatic turns and... | |
 | 1906 - 462 pages
...eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." 2 Fox acknowledged that "all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Said Pitt, his political adversary, "It surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1906 - 466 pages
...eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition."2 Fox acknowledged that "all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Said Pitt, his political adversary, "It surpassed all the eloquence... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1909 - 608 pages
...cannot be exaggerated. None who listened but were moved and ama2ed. Fox said when it was over that " all that he had ever heard — all that he had ever...— when compared with it, dwindled into nothing and vanished like vapour before the sun." Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1910 - 172 pages
...greatest imaginable exertion of the human mind " ; and Fox, with characteristic enthusiasm, asserted that "all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever...when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun." Parliament voted to adjourn until the next day, for the avowed... | |
 | Sir Charles Lawson - 1911 - 290 pages
...that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind." And Fox too declared that " all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like a vapour before the sun." It was not to be expected that Hastings would join in this... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 pages
...eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Fox said — ' all he had ever heard — all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.1 Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 pages
...eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was any record or tradition. Fox said — ' all he had ever heard — all that he had ever read, when compared with ity dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.' Pitt acknowledged that it surpassed... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1921 - 432 pages
...that genius or art could furnish to agitate and control the human mind, whilst Fox declared that all he had ever heard, all that he had ever read when compared with it dwindled into nothing and vanished like vapour before the sun. Here is human testimony. It must indeed have been an enchanting,... | |
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All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun; 
