"His eloquence was of every kind, and he……" — Philip Dormer Stanhope
"His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and thebest able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk underthe ascendant which his genius gained over theirs."
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8 Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
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