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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 289
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 55

1793 - 702 pages
...references to expreflions which fell from him in the courfe'of the debite, or hie quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to have been repeated whatim. The purpofrs to which he employed thefe amazing talents were ftill more extraordinary : it...
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 35

1793
...References toexpreflions which fell from him in the courfe of the debate, or his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to...if it was the weak part of his opponent's arguments thnt he referred to, he was lure to ex pole its fallacy, weaknefs, or abfurdity, in the moft poignant...
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Characters: Containing an Impartial Review of the Public Conduct and ...

1777 - 254 pages
...are ftill more extraordinary : if it be the weak part of his opponent's argument he refers to, he is fure to expofe its fallacy, weaknefs, or abfurdity,...in the moft poignant fatire, or hold it up in the moft ridiculous point of view. If, on the contrary, it be a point on which his adverfaries lay their...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 2; Volume 18

1793 - 550 pages
...references to expreffions which fell from him in the courfe of the debate, or his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to...purpofes to which he employed thefe amazing talents were (till more extraordinary: if jt was the weak part of his opponent's arguments that he referred to,...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 2

1793 - 450 pages
...references to expveliions which fell from him in the courfc of the debate, or his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to have been repeated verbatim. The purpoies to which he employed thele amazing talents were ftill more extraordinary : if it was the weak...
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The Genius of Albion: or, Weekly biographical, political, law, and literary ...

146 pages
...references to expreflions which fell from him in the courfe of a debate, and his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to...in the moft poignant fatire, or hold it up in the moft ridiculous point of view. If, on the contrary, it were a point on which his adverfaries lay their...
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Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Lawyers of the ...

Leman Thomas Rede, Edward Wynne - 1790 - 490 pages
...references to expreffions which fell from him in the courfe of debate, and his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to...in the moft poignant fatire, or hold it up in the mofl ridiculous point of view. If, on the contrary, it were a point on which his ad-* verfaries lay...
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Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Lawyers of the ...

Leman Thomas Rede, Edward Wynne - 1790 - 256 pages
...references to <xpreffions which fell from him in the •courfe of debate, and his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they .might have been faid to have been repeated verbatiiy. The purpofes to which he em-ployed thefe amazing talents, were fliU more extraordinary :...
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Annual Register, Volume 35

Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 pages
...to have been repeated verbatim. The purposes to which he employed these amazing talents were still more extraordinary : if it was the weak part of his opponent's arguments that he referred to, he was sure to expose its fallacy, weakness, or absurdity, in the most poignant satire, or hold it up in the...
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