 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 pages
...wildly extravagant, irreverent, and in Burke's very worst style. " Perhaps this house," said lie, " is not the place where our reasons can be of any avail....so immeasurably high, that the greatest abilities (and ho pointed to Mr. Townshend), or the most amiable dispositions (and he pointed to Mr. Con way)... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 pages
...great Invisible Power that had left no Minister in the House of Commons. " But " perhaps," he cried, " this House is not the place " where our reasons can be of any avail. The * See the statement of Lord Orford (Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 393.), in which he is followed too implicitly... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...great Invisible Power that had left no Minister in the House of Commons. " But " perhaps," he cried, " this House is not the place " where our reasons can be of any avail. The * See the statement of Lord Orford (Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 393.), in which he is followed too implicitly... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 pages
...great Invisible Power that had left no Minister in the House of Commons. "But "perhaps," he cried, "this House is not the place where our "reasons can...one so immeasurably high that the greatest abilities " (here he indicated Townshend) " or the most amiable dispositions " (here he pointed to Conway) "may... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 pages
...great Invisible Power that had left no Minister in the House of Commons. " But perhaps," he cried, " this House is not the place where our reasons can..." so immeasurably high that the greatest abilities " (here he indicated Townshend) " or the most amiable dis" positions " (here he pointed to Conway)... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 402 pages
...great Invisible Power that had left no Minister in the House of Commons. " But perhaps," he cried, " this House is not the place where our reasons can..." so immeasurably high that the greatest abilities " (here he indicated Townshend) " or the most amiable dis" positions " (here he pointed to Conway)... | |
 | William Dowe - 1857 - 272 pages
...Burke, alluding to the perplexity of the ministers, speaks thus of the Lord Privy Seal: "Bat, perhaps, this house is not the place where our reasons can...any avail ; the great person, who is to determine this question, may be a being far above our view — one so immeasurably high, that the greatest abilities... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...with a difference, as follows : After pointing out the ill effects which so violent a measure would have on the public credit, — " But perhaps," said...be a being far above our view ; one so immeasurably L high, that the greatest abilities, (pointing to Mr. Townshend,) or the most amiable dispositions... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1866 - 386 pages
...Scriptures, and which verged upon profanity, spoke openly of this mysterious seclusion. 4f But perhaps this House is not the place where our reasons can...of any avail. The great person who is to determine in this question may be far above our view : one so immeasurably high, that the greatest abilities,"... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 250 pages
...great "Invisible Power that had left no minister in the House of Commons." "But perhaps," he cried, "this House is not the place where our reasons can be of any avail. This great person who is to determine on this question may be a being far above our view ; one so immeasurably... | |
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perhaps," he cried, "this House is not the place where our "reasons can be of any avail. The great person who is to de"termine on this question may be a being far above our view; " one so immeasurably high that the greatest abilities " (here he indicated... 
