 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 464 pagina’s
...a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the gallery . . . were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs...bottles were handed round, hysterical sobs and screams were heard, and some were even carried out in fits." The student will have to take his choice of these... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 458 pagina’s
...hostile chancellor, and for a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...bottles were handed round, hysterical sobs and screams were heard, and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pagina’s
...hostile chancellor; and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his... | |
 | Joseph Packard, Thomas Jones Packard - 1902 - 392 pagina’s
...crowded with ladies were seen many handkerchiefs fluttering, and sobs were heard. To quote Macaulay, "The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion." Judge Berrien, member of Congress from Georgia, wept like a child, and said that the Convention must... | |
 | 1903 - 672 pagina’s
...hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 pagina’s
...graphic picture of the scene as Burke concluded his impeachment, and of the emotion which it produced : " Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard." After the trial of Warren Hastings, Burke turned his attention to France, where a revolution... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pagina’s
...hostile chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard: and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 pagina’s
...hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling-bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pagina’s
...hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pagina’s
...hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays...uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried... | |
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The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and hostile chancellor, and for a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such... 
