 | Henry Ware - 1824 - 114 Seiten
...the younger Pitt — " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit...lawyer with various degrees of power and grace."* If there be circumstances which render the habit more difficult to be acquired by the preacher, they... | |
 | 1832 - 478 Seiten
...the manner of algebra. This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit,...correctness of language, as well as the lofty talents of his grc^t predecessor, commands an equally ready and copious elocution. In the estimate of Mr. Pitt's powers,... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1846 - 432 Seiten
...of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit,...village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace." * If there be circumstances which render the habit more difficult to be acquired by the preacher, they... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 334 Seiten
...the younger Pitt : ' This profuse and interminable flow of words is not, in itself, either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit,...village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.' If there be circumstances that render the habit more difficult to be acquired by the preacher, they... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 548 Seiten
...the manuer of algebra. This profuse and interminable flow 01 words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit,...wants the elegant correctness of language, as well aa the lofty talents of his great predecessor, commands an equally ready and copious elocution. Jn... | |
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... regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable... 