...instance, the Prime Minister's description of his illustrious predecessor in office — " A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...arguments to malign an opponent, and to glorify himself." Had the Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, intended only a Johnsonian diatribe to be employed in a Pickwickian...

...Salisbury. During the course of his speech, the formernobleman described Mr. Gladstone as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and glorify himself." 29th.—Lord Hartington moved a resolution on Eastern affairs in...

...[Sigh deeply. ARRANGEMENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE, FROM A STATESMAN'S NOTE-BOOK. Uted. WEG A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents, and glorify himself. Heady for Use. 3 В . A political nonconformist, puzzled by the...

...sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity (loud cheers and laughter), and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can...arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself? (Continued cheers and laughter.) My lords and gentlemen, I leave the decision upon that Convention...

...rather than indignation ; and the same may be said of the Knightsbridge attack J upon a " sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." But when, in the House of Lords, § Lord Beaconsfield stated that Mr. Gladstone had called him a "...

...translate into Greek prose that famous philippic of Lord Beaconsfield's beginning, " A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." The student translated the passage, but appended to it the following note: — "The bombastic and inflated...

...by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, ... or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his...inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself " 1 Having thus recurred to the worst manner of his younger days, Lord Beaconsfield...

...rather than indignation ; and! the same may be said of the Knightsbridge attack § upon a " sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign art opponent and to glorify himself." But when, in the House of Lords,||. Lord Beaconsfield stated...

...affairs for five years, I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success ; or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign us and to glorify himself?" July 29. HL Saya that possibly Earl Granville's observations form a class...

...your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself? My lords and gentlemen, I leave the decision upon that Convention...