 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he was never...debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative, which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made so great a show of... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found ho could not do that, he was never without the dexterity...debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future. . . When this (the Long) Parliament... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...and clearly, and craftily eo stated it. that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he was never without tho dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he was never...debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future. . . When this (the Long) Parliament... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...craftily, so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found that he could not do that, he was never without the dexterity...debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative, which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made so great a show of... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another...which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made so great a show of civility and modesty and humility, and always of mistrusting his own judgment and... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 670 pages
...commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; aud'ifTieTdunel he cbuI3"no£"3o that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, 'and to prevent the determining any tiling in the nega- r tive which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made i so great a show... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another...which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made so great a show of civility, and modesty, and humility, and always of mistrusting his own judgment,... | |
 | Francis Osborne - Conduct of life - 1896 - 188 pages
...commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future." — History, iii. 31. V. 1... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 522 pages
...craftily, so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found that he could not do that he was never without the dexterity...debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future. He made so great a show of civility,... | |
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... very weighty speaker ; and after he had heard a full debate, and observed how the House was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired... 
