Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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Page 63
... force . In all such conflicts , the energy of his will and his bound- less self - confidence secured him the victory . Never did that " erect countenance " sink before the eye of an antagonist . Never was he known to hesitate or falter ...
... force . In all such conflicts , the energy of his will and his bound- less self - confidence secured him the victory . Never did that " erect countenance " sink before the eye of an antagonist . Never was he known to hesitate or falter ...
Page 73
... force of his arguments . Murray , the brightest genius of the three , had too much and too little of the lawyer ; he refined too much and could wrangle too little for a popular assembly . " We have seen already , in the life of Lord ...
... force of his arguments . Murray , the brightest genius of the three , had too much and too little of the lawyer ; he refined too much and could wrangle too little for a popular assembly . " We have seen already , in the life of Lord ...
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... force of the blow . He has thus given us some of the best specimens in our language of that " rich economy of expression , " which was so much studied by the great writers of antiquity . There is only one more characteristic of Junius ...
... force of the blow . He has thus given us some of the best specimens in our language of that " rich economy of expression , " which was so much studied by the great writers of antiquity . There is only one more characteristic of Junius ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MANSFIELD | 69 |
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