 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
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 362 Seiten
...subtle and abstruse. He hit the House between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious nor more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, with whom... | |
 | John Goss - 1891 - 272 Seiten
...subtle and abstruse. He hit the house between wind and water, and, not being troubled with too anxious 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 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 tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opin- 30 ions and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 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 also sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when I speak... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 Seiten
...subtle and abstruse. He hit the House 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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 also sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when I speak... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 560 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...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... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 554 Seiten
...tedious or more earnest than the preconceived 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. He had voted and, in the year 1765,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 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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