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
 | John William Donaldson - Latin language - 1853 - 244 pages
...abstruse.16 He hit the house just between wind and water,17 and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...pre-conceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required;18 to whom he was always in perfect unison.19 He conformed exactly to the temper of the house... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 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 the pre-conceivcd opinions and present temper of his hearers required, with whom he was always in perfect... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 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 iban the preconceived opinions ami present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House, and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it." At the close of the session, parliament... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because lie was always sure to follow it.' — Speech on American Taxation.... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 414 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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it.' — Speech on American Taxation*... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. I beg pardon, sir, if, when I speak... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...wind r; and, not being troubled with too anxious a matter in question, he was never more tedious Dr more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it. " I beg pardon, sir, if, when I speak... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 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. I beg pardon, if when I speak of this... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 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...unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House, and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it." BURKE'S POWERS OF MEMORY. The late... | |
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