 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found that he could not ao that he was never without the dexterity to divert...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,... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 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 without the dexterity John Hampden to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining any thing in the... | |
 | James Boyd White - Law - 1985 - 328 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. He made so great a show of civility... | |
 | William Palmer - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 172 pages
...argument. . . and craftily so stated in that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired; and if he found he could not do that, he was never without the dexterity to avert it to another time and to prevent determining anything negative which might prove inconvenient... | |
 | Wren & Martin - Juvenile Fiction - 434 pages
...shortly 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 of anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future. — Clarendon A work from... | |
 | Working class - 1850 - 820 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...divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the 3r THE .\VOUKIXG MiN'S FBIliXD, termining auytliing to the negative, which might prove inconvenient... | |
 | Arthur D. Innes - 1914 - 308 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 without the dexterity John Hampden to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining any thing in the... | |
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... but a 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... 
