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" 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 475
by Arthur Collins - 1812
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Longer exercises in Latin prose composition, chiefly tr. from the writings ...

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...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5

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...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

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...
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The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

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...
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Written by Himself. Containing an Account of ...

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....
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

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*...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most ...

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...
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The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times ...

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...
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The American Orator's Own Book

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...
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Anecdote Biography

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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