There are Speeches which can be called true; and, again, Speeches which are not true:--Heavens, only think what these latter are! Sacked wind, which you are intended to SOW,--that you may reap the whirlwind! After long reading, I find Chatham's Speeches to be what he pretends they are: true, and worth speaking then and there.

Noble indeed, I can call them with you: the highly noble Foreshadow, necessary preface and accompaniment of Actions which are still nobler.

A very singular phenomenon within those walls, or without! "Pitt, though nobly eloquent, is a Man of Action, not of Speech; an authentically Royal kind of Man.

And if there were a Plutarch in these times, with a good deal of leisure on his hands, he might run a Parallel between Friedrich and Chatham.

Two radiant Kings: very shining Men of Action both; both of them hard bested, as the case often is.