 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure the most important in rny judgment that had ever been discussed in civil or political society, I had...own talents without a supplication to Minerva, and a sacrifice to Mercury or the God of Eloquence." All this, to be sure, was but a flourish, and not, as... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 676 páginas
...most important in my judgment that had ever been discussed in civil or political society, I had 110 art or oratory to exhibit, and could produce nothing...reason and plain common sense. I felt myself oppressed bv the weight of the subject; and I believed if Demosthenes or Cicero had ever been called to deliberate... | |
 | 1878 - 562 páginas
...else ? It was a complete dissolution of all allegiance to the King. It was considered in this'light by those who opposed it. Mr. Duane called it " a machine...own talents without a supplication to Minerva, and a sacrifice to Mercury or the God of Eloquence." All this, to be sure, was but a flourish, and not as... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 páginas
...exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure, the most • important in my judgment that had ever been discussed in civil or political society. I had...myself oppressed by the -weight of the subject ; and I believe if Demosthenes or Cicero had ever been called to deliberate on so great a question, neither... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure the most important, in my judgment, that had ever been discussed in civil or political society, I had...could produce nothing but simple reason and plain common-sense. I felt myself oppressed by the weight of the subject, and I believed if Demosthenes or... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure the most important, in my judgment, that had ever been discussed in civil or political society, I had...could produce nothing but simple reason and plain common-sense. I felt myself oppressed by the weight of the subject, and I believed if Demosthenes or... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1895 - 202 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure the most important, in my judgment, that had ever been discussed in civil or political society, I had...could produce nothing but simple reason and plain common-sense. I felt myself oppressed by the weight of the subject, and I believed if Demosthenes or... | |
 | Charles William August Veditz, Bartlett Burleigh James - 1904 - 614 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure, the most important in my judgment that had ever been discussed in civil or political society. I had...myself oppressed by the weight of the subject; and I believe if Demosthenes or Cicero had ever been called to deliberate on so great a question, neither... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1904 - 582 páginas
...to exhibit all the arguments in favor of a measure, the most important in my judgment that had ever been discussed in civil or political society. I had...myself oppressed by the weight of the subject; and I believe if Demosthenes or Cicero had ever been called to deliberate on so great a question, neither... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 708 páginas
...had no art or oratory to exhibit, and could produce nothing but simple reason and plain common-sense. I felt myself oppressed by the weight of the subject,...own talents without a supplication to Minerva and a sacrifice to Mercury or the God of Eloquence.' All this, to be sure, was but a flourish, and not, as... | |
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... been discussed in civil or political society. I had no art or oratory to exhibit, and could produce nothing but simple reason and plain common sense. I felt myself oppressed by the weight of the subject, and I believed if Demosthenes or Cicero had... 
