| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 páginas
...one of John Adams's letters: —' Otis was a flame of fire! With a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American... | |
| 1825 - 460 páginas
...breaks forth in the following glowing language :—" But Otis was a Hame of fire ! With -) promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid...dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glare of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before... | |
| 1826 - 438 páginas
...other actors, he says—but " Otis was a flame of fire I With a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. AMEKICAN INDEPENDENCE WAS THEN AND THERE BORN. The seeds of patriots and heroes to defend... | |
| William Wirt - 1826 - 690 páginas
...his own burning phraseology. " Otis was a flame of fire ! " With a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of " research, a rapid summary of historical...torrent " of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before " him. American Independence was then and there " born.'" And he adds—" Every man of an immense... | |
| 1827 - 564 páginas
...his own burning phraseology. " Otis was a flame of fire ! With a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American Independence was then and there born." And he adds—" Every man of an immense... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 376 páginas
...he said of this same harangue, "Otis was a flame of fire! with a promptitude of .classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried all before him. American independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes to... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 362 páginas
...he said of this same harangue, " Otis was a flame of fire! with a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried all before him. American independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes to... | |
| 1827 - 572 páginas
...in his own burning phraseology. "Otis was a flame of fire! With a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, mid a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American IndcpcuduiicG... | |
| John Sanderson - 1828 - 728 páginas
...he said of this same harangue, ''Otis was a flame of fire! with a promptitude of classical allusion, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical...a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried all before him. American independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes to... | |
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