 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 428 Seiten
...North, and, according to the testimony of Gibbon, " taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded."J At the opening of the Session, in October, 1776, he supported a motion of Lord John Cavendish... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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. We voted an address, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 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." — Misc. Works, ii., 21. Mr. Fox's sentiments respecting the treatment of America, though springing,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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. We voted an address, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
 | 1882 - 828 Seiten
...Gibbon, the historian, who was present, said that it took in the " vast compass of the question, and discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies had dreaded." Chatham opposed the king's policy of using force against the Americans. So, also, did... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 736 Seiten
...first great speech ; and, as we learn from a letter of Gibbon, the historian, to Lord Sheffield, that he "discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded." I cannot forbear to insert a condensed view of the course of argument of the members of Parliament... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1886 - 874 Seiten
...difplayed his ufual talents ; the former, taking the vaft compafs of the queftion before us, difcovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded. We voted an addrefs, (three hundred and four to one hundred and five,) of lives and fortunes, declaring... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 484 Seiten
...and twenty minutes ' (ib. p. 455); ' taking the vast compass of the question ' he ' discovered power for regular debate which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded ' (GIBBON, Miscell. Workt, ii. 132). On the 20th he exposed the hollowness of North's plan of conciliation,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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. We voted an address — 304 to 105 — of lives and fortunes, declaring Massachusetts Bay in a state... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 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. We voted an address — 304 to 105 — of lives and fortunes, declaring Massachusetts Bay in a state... | |
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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,... 
