 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 pages
...Chesterfield pointed in all the arts of manner and expression : — "Lord Bolingbroke," he tells us, "has both a tongue and a pen to persuade ; his manner of speaking in private conversation is full as elegant as his writings ; whatever subject he either speaks or writes upon,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 324 pages
...Patriotism, on the Idea of a Patriot King." tory with which it is adorned. Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English...Bolingbroke has both a tongue and a pen to persuade. [Same date,~\ COMPLICATED MACHINES.—I have often told you (and it is most true) that, with regard... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 pages
...Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, and on the Idea of a Patriot King." Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English language.* ***** In your destination, you will have frequent occasions to speak in public ; to Princes and States... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 pages
...style, and to all those beauties of oratory with which it is adorned. Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English...pen to persuade ; his manner of speaking in private conversation is full as elegant as his writings ; whatever subject he either speaks or writes upon,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pages
...style, and to all those beauties of oratory with which it is adorned. Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English...Bolingbroke has both a tongue and a pen to persuade. All the above extracts are from Chesterfield's « Letters to His Son.» LORD KAMES (HENRY HOME) (1696-1782)... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...style, and to all those beauties of oratory with which it is adorned. Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English...Bolingbroke has both a tongue and a pen to persuade. All the above extracts are from Chesterfield's « Letters to His Son.» LORD KAMES (HENRY HOME) (1696-1782)... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 384 pages
...has been formerly." Again Lord Chesterfield writes to his son on the I2th of December following : " Lord Bolingbroke has both a tongue and a pen to persuade ; his manner of speaking in private conversation is full as elegant as his writings; whatever subject he either speaks or writes upon,... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 584 pages
...opponent, termed his penetration "almost intuition," and confessed that till he read "The Patriot King," he did not know " all the extent and powers of the English language." Of his memory he observed that " it is his pocket-money, and he never has occasion to draw upon a book... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...was the model that Lord Chesterfield pointed to in his " Letters to His Son." Lord Bolingbroke had both a tongue and a pen to persuade ; his manner of speaking in private conversation was full as elegant as his writings ; whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon,... | |
 | 1877 - 736 pages
...: his contemporary, Lord Chesterfield, confessed that till he read Lord Bolingbroke's writings, he did not know all the extent and powers of the English language ; and that Lord Bolingbroke's eloquence was not a studied or laboured eloquence, but a flowing happiness... | |
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