Babylon the Great: A Dissection of Men and Things in the British Capital, Volum 1H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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Pàgina 78 - Their foes at training overcome, And not enlarging territory, (As some, mistaken, write in story) Being mounted in their best array, Upon a car, and who but they ; And follow'd with a world of tall lads, That merry ditties troll'd, and ballads, Did ride with many a Good-morrow, Crying, ' Hey for our town,
Pàgina 3 - ... intelligence, their concentration, and the prompt and immediate use to which all of them can apply their talents, are taken into the account. Within a circumference, the radius of which does not exceed five miles, there are never fewer than a million and a half of human beings; and if the great bell of St. Paul's were swung to the full pitch of its tocsin sound, more ears would hear it than could hear the loudest roaring of Etna or Vesuvius...
Pàgina 275 - That voice, which was at first so low and so unpretending, now assumes the deafening roar and the determined swell of the ocean ; that form which, at the beginning, seemed to be sinking under its own weight, now looks as if it were nerved with steel, strung with brass, and immortal and unchangeable as the truths which in...
Pàgina 278 - ... of even the means of self-protection, and courting destruction with the most piteous and frantic imbecility — you would perceive a slender antagonist clutching the back of the bench with quivering talons, lest the coming tempest should sweep him away — or you would see the portly and appropriate figure of the representative of the quorum of some fat county, delving both his fists into the cushion, fully resolved, that if a man of his weight' should be blown out of the House, he would yet...
Pàgina 273 - When, however, a sufficient number of those propositions have been enunciated, and the enunciation is always such as to carry the demonstration with, it, — when every auxiliary that the range of human, knowledge can furnish for the firm establishment of the ultimate conclusion has been pressed into the service, — when every objection to its force has been effectually turned aside by a single touch, — when the whole array of political and moral truth has been put in order ; it moves on towards...
Pàgina 165 - ... for his grasp. In his appearance there is something extremely prepossessing ; and no man can be more specious in his manner, or more mild in his expressions : nor do these agreeable qualities appear to be in the least assumed, — they are so easy and so habitual, that he must have received them from nature. His voice is loud and clear ; and his language, though not of the most powerful or classical character, is notwithstanding good. Nor is there any great reason to quarrel with the structure...
Pàgina 304 - ... subject that comes before the House. His voice is against him, for it is feeble without softness, and he gains nothing either by show or fluency of language ; but still the impression which he leaves upon your mind is, that he has more expansion and depth of intellect, and more range and inflexibilty of purpose, than any man within the same walls.
Pàgina 304 - There is nothing in his appearance, his manner, or his speaking, upon which you can hitch even the slightest descriptive figure ; and if it were possible to disembody sheer political intellect, and leave it without any of' the trappings of ornament, that would be the nearest approach to a likeness of this most plain but profound member of St. Stephen's. Mr. Huskisson's bearing is remarkably shrewd and firm ; and though he deals not much either in irony or...
Pàgina 271 - Brougham takes a slow and hesitating pace towards the table, where he stands crouched together — his shoulders pulled up, his head bent forward, and his upper lip and nostril agitated by a tremulous motion, as though he were afraid to utter even a single sentence. His...
Pàgina 275 - When, as already mentioned, he has laid the foundation in the utmost extent of philosophy, and the profoundest depth of reason — when he has returned to it again, applying the line and the plummet, to see the erection is orderly, and feeling with the touch of a giant to ascertain that it is secure — when he has bound the understandings of the House and the spectators in cords of argument which they are equally...