...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. " I knew him," says Mr. Burke, in a pamphlet written after...

...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thin« around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents ol impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction. He certainly possessed...

...was changed into another being. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence,...

...audience ; torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes."* Lord Brougham has criticised this comparison of Fox to Demosthenes,...

...Grant, to which Fox replied at the moment with wonderful effectt " Fox's Speeches," vol. ip xiii. as lie went on ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence...

...looked upward at the rugged heights that towered above him in the gloom. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 9. Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me. — Shakespeare. 10. The jingling of the guinea helps...

...hesitating manner; yet, says Sir James Mackintosh, " he forgot himself and everything around him ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." Edmund Burke, in addition to other defects, had a delivery harsh and frigid, and his...

...was changed into another being. He forgot r.imself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. " I knew him," says Mr. Burke, in a pamphlet written after...

...of that higher type which consists of " reason and passion fused together." Mackintosh says : — " He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." Says Dr. Johnson : " Here is a man who has divided a kingdom...

...other statesman has had so large an influence upon the politics of England. Mackintosh says of him : " He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." — See " Character of the late Charles James Fox," by Dr....