 | 1853 - 1042 Seiten
...in a letter to Lord Sheffield, says, — ' Fox, taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded.' In October 1776, we find him writing to Lord Rockingham: — ' Above all, my dear lord, I hope that... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 570 Seiten
...on occasion of this speech, says to him, Fox, " taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." Of this speech of Mr. Fox no memorial has been preserved, except the slight notice of Walpole and the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 562 Seiten
...unconnected, he was left free to follow his own bold and generous impulses. He was soon " to discover powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded." He could not only take the vast compass of a great question, but with singular and unfailing sagacity,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 560 Seiten
...unconnected, he was left free to follow his own bold and generous impulses. He was soon " to discover powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped nor .his enemies dreaded." He could not only take the vast compass of a great question, but with singular and unfailing sagacity,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 420 Seiten
...unconnected, he was left free to follow his own bold and generous impulses. He was soon " to discover powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded." He could not only take the vast compass of a great question, but with singular and unfailing sagacity,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 Seiten
...latter displayed his usual talents ; the former, taking the vast compass of the question before us, . — Misc. Works, ii., 21. Mr. Fox's sentiments respecting the treatment of America, though springing,... | |
 | GEORGE BANGROFT - 1856 - 558 Seiten
...unconnected, he was left free to follow his own bold and generous impulses. He was soon a to discover powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded.'1 He could not only take the vast compass of a great question, but with singular and unfailing... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 390 Seiten
...latter displayed his usual talents ; the former, taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded."* The numbers were, — For Lord North 304 For Mr. Fox 105 Majority 199 It would be very desirable to... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1864 - 552 Seiten
...marked by decided 1777 ability, had hitherto been desultory and occasional ; but he now (as Gibbon said) discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. Mr. Grattan (as we learn from Lord John), who had heard Mr. Fox at various epochs, declared his preference... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 Seiten
...whether the nation should be ruled by the sceptre of George III. or the tongue of Fox." Gibbon says Fox discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded. His force as a professed orator was conspicuously displayed in Westminster Hall, on the trial of Warren... | |
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The principal men both days were Fox and Wedderburne, on the opposite sides ; the latter displayed his usual talents ; the former taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped,... 
