 ... subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 16edited by - 1775Full view - About this book
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 414 pages
...in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 pages
...in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because lie was always... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...matter in question, he was never more tedious Dr more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house, and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House, and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide because he was always... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...in question, he was never more, tedious, or more earnest, than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always... | |
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