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
 | Justin McCarthy - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 510 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. THE DUTIES OF A EEPKESENTATIVE. From... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...subtle and abstruse. He hit the 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. I beg pardon, sir, if when I speak... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 136 pages
...abstruse. 30 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. 5 I beg pardon, Sir, if when I speak... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 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...whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exictly to the temper of the House, and he seemed to guide, because he was also sure to follow it.... | |
 | Harry Graham - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 342 pages
...matter, and was consequently " never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions aud present temper of his hearers required, to whom he...always in perfect unison." He conformed exactly to the feelings of the House, and seemed to guide because he was always sure to follow it. He was apparently... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 pages
...abstruse. He hit the House just between the wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for .any matter in question, he was never more...than the pre-conceived opinions and present temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was also sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...a zeal for any matter in question, lie was never more tedious at more earnest than the preeoneeiyed opinions and present temper of his hearers required,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...and abstru.se. 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... | |
 | Arthur D. Innes - 1914 - 308 pages
...abstruse. He hit the House just between the wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more...than the pre-conceived opinions and present temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was also sure to follow it. I beg pardon, Sir, if, when... | |
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