He was not a man of many words, and rarely began the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed ; but a very weighty speaker ; and, after he had heard a full debate, and observed how the house was like to be inclined, took... The Cornhill Magazine - Page 110edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
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...where he lived, but generally throughout the kingdom. He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any...heard a full debate, and observed how the house was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily, so stated it, that... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
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| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
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| Max Wilhelm Meyer - 1809 - 786 pages
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| Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
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| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest.—He was not a man of many words, and rarely began the...very weighty speaker; and after he had heard a full dehate, and observed how the house was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...man of that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any...heard a full debate, and observed how the House was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly and clearly and craftily so stated it, that... | |
| John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 pages
...where he lived, but generally throughout the kingdom. He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any...heard a full debate, and observed how the House was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that... | |
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