In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed. and finished wit ; and (where... Macmillan's Magazine - Página 151865Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 534 páginas
...scheme, whom I cannot even now remember without tome degree of sensibility. In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm...country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit, and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. If... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1868 - 640 páginas
...off by a fever. Burke, in his celebrated speech upon American taxation, spoke of Townshend as " the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm...country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit, and, when his passions were not concerned, of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment." Troubridge,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 páginas
...was the delight and ornament of this house, and '.ne charm of every private society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this...country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit; end (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetraung judgment.... | |
| William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 páginas
...was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this...country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite,' and penetrating judgment. If... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 páginas
...the heavens arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant. Townshend was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm...arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of more pointed and finished wit, and of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. He stated... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every society which he honored uilty of (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. If... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 páginas
...scheme, whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm...country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit, and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. If... | |
| Henry Major - 1876 - 784 páginas
...in office until his decease on the 4th of September, 1767. Burke says of him, " In truth, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm...private society which he honoured with his presence." Duncan Forbes, Lord Advocate of Scotland during the Premiership of Sir Robert Walpole, ably defended... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...scheme ; whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, sir, he was the ill closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and ho honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man... | |
| James Routledge - 1876 - 680 páginas
...even in condemning the colonial policy adopted, spoke of the reproducer of the fatal scheme, as " the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every private society that he honoured with his presence." " Perhaps," he added, " there never rose in this country, or any... | |
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