...leaders. For instance, the Prime Minister's description of his illustrious predecessor in office — " A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent, and to glorify himself." Had the Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, intended only a Johnsonian...

...sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity (loud cheers and laughter), and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself? (Continued cheers and laughter.) My lords and gentlemen, I leave...

...retort. But when the noble Lord thought it worthy of himself to go on to describe my right hon. Friend as " a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the...verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination which can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent scries of arguments to malign an opponent...

...undergraduates, held on the 30th of January, 1878, to celebrate the formation of a Liberal Pahnerston Club, Mi: Gladstone strongly condemned the sending of the British...gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at sill times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents and...

...gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, ... or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself " 1 Having thus recurred to the worst manner of his younger days, Lord...

...was required to translate into Greek prose that famous philippic of Lord Beaconsfield's beginning, " A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." The student translated the passage, but appended to it the following...

...causes a smile rather than indignation ; and the same may be said of the Knightsbridge attack J upon a " sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." But when, in the House of Lords, § Lord Beaconsfield stated that...

...managing their 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 us and to glorify himself?" July 29. HL Saya that possibly Earl Granville's observations form a class...

...caused a smile rather than indignation ; and! the same may be said of the Knightsbridge attack § upon a " sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign art opponent and to glorify himself." But when, in the House of Lords,||. Lord Beaconsfield stated...

...opposition to every step of the Government lei Lord Beaconsficld to qualify him at a public dinner as " a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the...interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign hia opponents and to glorify himself." This scathing sentence was mainly called forth by a npeech delivered...