 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...He is the only man," said he, at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of his reputation, " with the ordinary endowments of humanity, should groan under a system of despotism, unmatch him up where you please, he is ready to meet you." " No man of sense," he said, " could meet Burke... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 páginas
...'He is the only man,' said he at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of his reputation, ' whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you.' ' No man of sense,' he said again, ' could meet... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...perpetual ; and he does not talk from any desire of distinction, but because his mind is full. . . . He is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you. . . . No man of sense could meet Hurke by accident... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 páginas
...he called it, was what he would not bear.' It might have been said of him what he said of Burke : ' Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' One evening when he had been with Burke and had had by far the largest share in the talk, Burke in... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 páginas
...he called it, was what he would not bear.' It might have been said of him what he said of Burke : ' Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' One evening when he had been with Burke and had had by far the largest share in the talk, Burke in... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 páginas
...' He is the only man,' said he at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of his reputation, ' whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you.' ' No man of sense,' he said again, ' could meet... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 páginas
...is the only man," he remarked, at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of his reputation, " whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you." " No man of sense," he says, " could meet Burke... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 594 páginas
...ebullition of his mind. He does not talk for a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full.' ' He is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...the general fame which he has in the world. Take up what topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' 'No man of sense could meet Mr. Burke by accident... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 páginas
...ebullition of his mind. He does not talk for a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full.' ' He is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has iu the world. Take up what topic you please, he is ready to meet yon.' 'No man of sense could meet... | |
 | 1883 - 666 páginas
...forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." "Burke," he said at another time, " is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Burke began early to write on political topics, and an ardent desire seized him to enter the House... | |
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He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way... 
