 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...whom I had lived in habits of 1 CEuvres de Beaumnrchais, tom. iii. pp. 299, 355. - I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious...proscribed. (See Mr. Burke's speech on the Bill of Reform, pp. 72-80.) The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the two thousand... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1891 - 648 pages
...supported by numbers. Never can I forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those (Gibbon himself, as a member of the Board of Trade, was one of them)'whose existence he proscribed.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 pages
...leaders of opposition with whom I had lived in habits of intimacy ; f and I was most * I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious...orator, Mr. Burke, was heard by all sides of the house, anil even by those whose existence he proscribed. (Sce Mr. Burke's speech on the Bill of Reform, pp.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...of reform, pp. 72-80. I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious Orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose LORD COMMISSIONER OP TRADE, ETC. 321 be allowed that our duty was not intolerably severe, and that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pages
...of reform, pp. 72-80. I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious Orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose 1 be allowed that our duty was not intolerably severe, and that I enjoyed many days and weeks of repose... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...of Reform, pp. 72-80. I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator, was heard by all sides of the house, and even by those whose existence he proscribed. The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the 2,500 volumes of our... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1904 - 366 pages
...minutes to deliver. " I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose existence he proscribed. The Lords of Trade blushed at their own insignificance." That good-humoured confession is from a note... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...Hutton, ed. 1816, p. 161). 42. BURSE'S PLAN OF ECONOMICAL REFORMATION (p. S07). I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious...proscribed. (See Mr. Burke's Speech on the Bill of Reform, pp. 72-80 [Burke1 s Works, ed. 1808, iii., 322-334].) The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1914 - 460 pages
...never," (so Gibbon confessed,) " forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose existence he proscribed. The Lords of Trade blushed at their own insignificancy ; and Mr. Eden's appeal to the two thousand... | |
 | 1925 - 462 pages
...Gibbon, whose sinecure place was swept away by the Economical Reform Bill of 1782, bears testimony to the 'delight with which that diffusive and ingenious...and even by those whose existence he proscribed.' Walpole has himself repeatedly noticed the effect which the speeches of Burke produced upon the hearer.... | |
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I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator, Mr. Burke, was heard by all sides of the house, and even by those whose existence he proscribed. 
