Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... orator that this country ever produced . Of Lord Somers , indeed , we can scarcely be said to know anything at all . That he was a person of unimpeachable integrity , a judge of great capacity and learning , a firm friend of liberty ...
... orator that this country ever produced . Of Lord Somers , indeed , we can scarcely be said to know anything at all . That he was a person of unimpeachable integrity , a judge of great capacity and learning , a firm friend of liberty ...
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... orators and statesmen ; at another they were conveyed under the initials only of the names borne by the real speakers . Even when , somewhat later , these disguises were thrown aside , the speeches were composed by persons who had not ...
... orators and statesmen ; at another they were conveyed under the initials only of the names borne by the real speakers . Even when , somewhat later , these disguises were thrown aside , the speeches were composed by persons who had not ...
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Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. of the orators . Thus many of Lord Chatham's earlier speeches in the House of Commons , as now preserved , were avowedly the composition of Dr. Johnson , whose measured style , formal periods ...
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. of the orators . Thus many of Lord Chatham's earlier speeches in the House of Commons , as now preserved , were avowedly the composition of Dr. Johnson , whose measured style , formal periods ...
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... orator in the sketch which may be given of this great man . But the testimony of contemporaries may so far be helped by what remains of the oratory itself , as to make some faint conceptions attainable of that eloquence which , for ...
... orator in the sketch which may be given of this great man . But the testimony of contemporaries may so far be helped by what remains of the oratory itself , as to make some faint conceptions attainable of that eloquence which , for ...
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... would not be correct to affirm that on those , the cardinal , and there- fore the trying , points of the day , he was materially in advance of his own times . If we turn from the statesman to survey the orator LORD CHATHAM . 29.
... would not be correct to affirm that on those , the cardinal , and there- fore the trying , points of the day , he was materially in advance of his own times . If we turn from the statesman to survey the orator LORD CHATHAM . 29.
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