 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1904 - 600 pages
...the day vied with each other in praising it. Burke declared, " It was the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." Said Fox, " All that I ever heard, all that I ever read, when compared with it, dwindles into nothing... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862 - 496 pages
...unanimous testimony to surpassing merit. Burke declared this speech to be "the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united of which there is any record or tradition." Fox said : " All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled... | |
 | Sir Charles Lawson - Governors - 1895 - 290 pages
...On a later occasion Burke said that, in his opinion, the speech was " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united of which there is any record or tradition." Pitt held a similar opinion, as he considered that the speech " surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | Charles Edward Drummond Black - Diplomats - 1903 - 484 pages
...the greatest of his compeers said of it. Mr. Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said " all that he had ever read when compared with it dwindled into nothing and vanished like... | |
 | Charles Edward Drummond Black - 1903 - 486 pages
...the greatest of his compeers said of it. Mr. Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." Mr. Fox said " all that he had ever read when compared with it dwindled into nothing and vanished like... | |
 | Cornelius Joseph Herlihy - Ireland - 1904 - 312 pages
...than five hours in the delivery ; and Burke himself declared it to be "the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united of which there is any record or tradition." Even the great English orator, Pitt, himself acknowledged that it "surpassed all the eloquence of ancient... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Classicism - 1907 - 530 pages
...the first of his " Begum speeches " (1787) to be, as Burke put it, " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." And his powers both of passionate appeal and of raillery remained even in the gloom of his closing years.... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - European literature - 1907 - 530 pages
...pronounced the first of his "Begum speeches" (1787) to be, as Burke put it, " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." And his powers both of passionate appeal and of raillery remained even in the gloom of his closing years.... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1909 - 612 pages
...and vanished like vapour before the sun." Burke declared it to be " the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition." Pitt himself acknowledged that " it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern times, and possessed... | |
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the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition. 
