 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 434 pages
...fides;. the latter difplayed his ufual talents; the former, taking the vaft compafs of the queftion before us, difcovered powers for regular debate, which...hundred and five , ) of lives and fortunes /declaring Maffachuffets Bay in a ftate of rebellion. More troops, but I fear not enough, go to America, to make... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - 520 pages
...difplayed his ufual talents : the former, taking the vaft compafs of the queftion before us, difcovercd powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." ike Gibbon's Letter to lord Sheffield, 1775. CHAP, fuch colony mould alfo engage to provide for the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 544 pages
...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 Massachussets... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1815 - 520 pages
...displayed h1« usual talents; the former, taking the vast compass of the quest1on before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." Miscellaneous Works, vol. 1. p, 489, D ^ Parliament, earlier in their application, and more vigorous... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 904 pages
...; 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... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...decided 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... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...steady and uninterrupted. So early as the beginning of 1775, we are told by Gibbon, that " he discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." But, notwithstanding the brilliancy of his talents, and the reputation he acquired in the House of... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...uninterrupted. So early as the beginning of 1 7? ">• we arc told by Gibbon, that " he discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded." But, notwithstanding the brilliancy of his talents, and the reputation he acquired in the House of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 408 pages
...displayed his usual talents; the former, taking the vast compass of the question before us, yBscovered 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 Massachussets... | |
 | 1827 - 386 pages
...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 Massachussets... | |
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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,... 
