 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : — " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." The singular kindness, the extreme gentleness of his disposition, wholly free from gall, from... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : — " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." The singular kindness, the extreme gentleness of his disposition, wholly free from gall, from... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...Wilberforce had relation to Pitt's firmness in resisting the spread of French Jacobinism in England: "He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." Nor has the present century been scant of those bits of oratory which crystallize into sayings.... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1873 - 876 pages
...Wilberforce had relation to Pitt's firmness in resisting the spread of French Jacobinism in England : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' Nor has the present century been scant of those bits of oratory which crystallise into sayings.... | |
 | Max Duncker - History, Ancient - 1877 - 698 pages
...command Aaron took the censer of incense and offered iucense to purify the children of Israel ; and he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. But there died fourteen thousand and seven hundred. The children of Israel came into the wilderness... | |
 | Max Duncker - History, Ancient - 1877 - 608 pages
...command Aaron took the censer of incense and offered incense to purify the children of Israel ; and he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. But there died fourteen thousand and seven hundred. The children of Israel came into the wilderness... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...Douglas, as Wilberforce so finely said of Pitt when he breasted the torrent of Jacobin principles: " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed!"' It has been urged against the consistency of Mr. Douglas' political course that he changed... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' " Repenting of his Vote. — Lord Sidmouth told us that one morning at a Cabinet meeting,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' " Repenting of his Vote. — Lord Sidmouth told us that one morning at a Cabinet meeting,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles, ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' " We have an interesting notice of the first appearance in the House of Earl Grey, by Mr.... | |
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Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times of a more electrical effect than the singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : — " He stood between the living and the dead, and the... 
