...at Knightsbridge, described h .m as ' a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance cf his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical...arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself.' This description of Mr. Gladstone's eloquence bears no inconsiderable resemblance to a passage in Lord...

...subjects, managing your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself ? " "Imperium et Libertas." — The Earl of Beaconsfield used this phrase in replying for the Ministry...

...the House of Commons he must address the public out of doors.—Speech at Manchester, April 3, 1872. A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.—Banquet at Duke of Wellington's Riding School, July 28, 1878....

...with prudence and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, intoxicated with tho exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an...inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and glorify himself?" The aptness of the saying produced inextinguishable laughter, not merely in the banqueting...

...denounced the Anglo-Turkish Convention for its insanity, as a 'sophistical rhetorician inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that at all times commanded an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents...

...managing their own affairs for five years, I hope with prudence and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself ? " PHILIP II. [King of Spain; son of Charles V.; born at Valladolid, May 21, 1527; married Mary Tudor...

...managing your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself ? 56 "My lords and gentlemen, I leave the decision upon that convention...

...epoefhei; of his rival, at R banquet held at the Riding School at Knightsbridgc, described him as ' a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...all times command an interminable and inconsistent s?rioa of arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself.' This description of Mr. Gladstone's...

...that party repudiate his policy. LordBeaconsfield was especially pitilessto him, and defined him as " a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...imagination that can at all times command an interminable, an inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself." It is a curious...

...that party repudiate his policy. Lord Beaconsfield was especially pitiless to him, and denned him as " a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...imagination that can at all times command an interminable, an inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and to glorify himself." It is a curious...