...act, declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. This light too is passed and set for ever. You understandj to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend,...

...glowing encomium of Burke, a part of which we may quote: — " Before this splendid orb (Lord Chatham) was entirely set, and while the western horizon was...luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant. Townshend was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every private society which...

...act, declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. This light too is passed and set for ever. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshencl,...

...act declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant. This light, too, is passed and set forever. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend,...

...with which he ever delighted the ears of the House of Commons. "Even then," he exclaimed — "even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. That light too .is passed and set for ever. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend."...

...this too, even long before the close of the first session of his administration, " for even then, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant." 1*3 and allegorical bombast. " For it is not easy to understand," says he, "that a city ought to be...

...tenor of Lord Chatham's principles, he proceeds : — " For even then, sir, even before this aplendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the beavena arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant This light too is passed...

...the excellences of the metaphor. ' Even then, before this splendid orb was entire'/ set, i.nd n'Ma the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending...quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for hia hour became lord of the ascendant." In this fine passage, the resemblance implied is such as to...

...act, declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. This light, too, is passed and set forever. You understand, to be fiure, that I speak of Charles Townshend,...

...Burke thus describes the fall from power of Lord Chatham, and the rise of Charles Townsend : Even then, before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while...luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant. 4. Short-lived, indeed, was Irish independence. I sat by her cradle ; I followed her hearse. — GRATTAN....