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" His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived... "
The Life of Augustus, Viscount Keppel, Admiral of the White, and First Lord ... - Page 403
by Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water. — And not being...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 18

History - 1778 - 626 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the 1юич> just between wind and water. — And, П(Л...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 4

1801 - 618 pages
...which has reparticularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject; his stile of argument was neither trite nor vulgar, nor subtle...and abstruse; he hit the house just between -wind anJ •water ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, was never...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being...
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Public Characters

Great Britain - 1804 - 636 pages
...in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject ; his stile of argument was neither irite nor vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse; he hit the house just between wind u»4 voter ; and not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any mat.ter in question, was never...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. — And not being...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. — And not being...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 638 pages
...the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully; he particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtile and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and w.iter. And not being...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 4

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particnlarly excelled in a most luminions explanation and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vu Igar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between windand water. And not being troubled...
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