 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 strani
...every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invective* were 'terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction,...he intimidated those who were the most willing and best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hsrrtds, and they shrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 strani
...invectives," says Lord Chesterfield, " were terrible ; and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those, who were the most willing, and the least able to encounter them. Their arms fell out of their hands ; and they ghrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 strani
...the oldest and ablest actors. His eloquence was of every kind,and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives...terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 strani
...him the former of these designations. * And yet he says elsewhere, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Murray are, tory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered...most willing and the best able to encounter him." Of his literary productions only a short poem or two had appeared, till in 1804 Lord Grenville published... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 strani
...oldest and the ablest actors. His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives...he intimidated those who were the most willing and best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 512 strani
...words of a contemporary statesman, " were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascend* ant of his sublime genius." *... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 496 strani
...words of a contemporary statesman, " were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of '5 their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant of his sublime genius."... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 strani
...well as in the declamatory way. But his invective* were terrible, and uttered with such energy and diction, and such dignity of action and countenance,...the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant^which his genius gained over... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 strani
...oldest and the ablest actors. Hie eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as ffices, all tending to one result: — We see a cylindrical...box containing a coiled elastic spring, which, by i stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the... | |
 | 1826 - 450 strani
...oldeft and the ablefl actors. His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way; but his invectives were terrible, and uttered 'with fuch energy of diction, and ftern dignity of aiUon and countenance, that he intimidated thofe who were... | |
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But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they... 
