 He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.—...  Peerage of England. ... - Seite 475von Arthur Collins - 1812Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 Seiten
...tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, with whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. Many of my hearers, who never saw... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 Seiten
...abstruse ; he hit the house just between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide because he was always sure to follow it." Charles Townshend was apparently... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 Seiten
...abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. — And not being troubled with too anxious you, (and they who know me publickly ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if when I speak... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when I speak... | |
 | Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 Seiten
...and abstruse. He bit the house just between wind and water; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more exact than the preconceived opinions and temper of his hearers required. ... He had no failings which... | |
 | Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842 - 478 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more exact than the preconceived opinions and temper of his hearers required. . . . He had no failings which... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and not being troubled with too inxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it There are many young members in the... | |
 | 1843 - 524 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it There are many young members in the... | |
 | 1843 - 1040 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly ro the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it There... | |
 | 1845 - 554 Seiten
...and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he- seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when I speak... | |
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