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Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : Third Series Abraham
Hayward. : of Commons ( says Macaulay ) broke up with gloomy looks and in
great agitation . All London looked forward to the next day with painful
forebodings .
Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : Third Series Abraham
Hayward. : of Commons ( says Macaulay ) broke up with gloomy looks and in
great agitation . All London looked forward to the next day with painful
forebodings .
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No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less
emptiness , less idleness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but
consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him
...
No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less
emptiness , less idleness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but
consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him
...
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... or make a Minister look about him . A modern debater addresses the entire
nation through the parliamentary reporters , and his reputation depends in a
great measure on the estimate they may found on the substance of his speeches
.
... or make a Minister look about him . A modern debater addresses the entire
nation through the parliamentary reporters , and his reputation depends in a
great measure on the estimate they may found on the substance of his speeches
.
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... and of so many eminent qualifications , that he looks upon himself as the only
person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation , and
therefore christening every other gentleman who has the honour to be employed
in ...
... and of so many eminent qualifications , that he looks upon himself as the only
person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation , and
therefore christening every other gentleman who has the honour to be employed
in ...
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... like the celebrated one ( paraphrased ' by Dr . Johnson ) to old Horace Walpole
, who had twitted him with his youth ; or the terrible attack on Henry Fox , the first
Lord Holland , who , in reference to a comment on the ill - looks of a witness at ...
... like the celebrated one ( paraphrased ' by Dr . Johnson ) to old Horace Walpole
, who had twitted him with his youth ; or the terrible attack on Henry Fox , the first
Lord Holland , who , in reference to a comment on the ill - looks of a witness at ...
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