He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.—... Peerage of England. ... - Page 475by Arthur Collins - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 542 pages
...subtle and abstruse. He hit die House between wind and water : and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. There are many young members in... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...between wind, and water ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the...; he conformed exactly to the temper of the House, and seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. " Failings," continues Mr. Burke, " he... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...between wind and water; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the...unison; he conformed exactly to the temper of the House, and seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. " Failings," continues Mr. Burke, "heundoubtedly... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...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, than thepre-conceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required ; with whom he was always in perfect... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 594 pages
...tedious, or more earnest, than thepre-conceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required ; with 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 sure to follow it. Many of my hearers, who never saw... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Physicians - 1832 - 334 pages
...wind and tide. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never tedious, or more earnest, than the preconceived opinions and present temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. " There are many young... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 748 pages
...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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it." The next shall be the celebrated... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. — And not being troubled with too anxious mid the goading spears of drivers, and Ihe nor more earnest, than the preconceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required; to whom... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. — And not being troubled with too anxious ably included in the abstract idea of that power, and which c nor more earnest, than the preconceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required; to whom... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...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...opinions and present temper of his hearers required, with whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he... | |
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