 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1769 - 594 pagina’s
...confider as their due, thought they could not exceed in gratitude to fuch a benefactor, and ftrained their invention, and employed all their ingenuity...in panegyric. Succeeding authors, warmed with their defcriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and refined upon rhem. The appellation of... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pagina’s
...confider as their due, thought they cculd not exceed in gratitude to fuch a benefactor, and ftrained their invention, and employed all their ingenuity...in panegyric. Succeeding authors, warmed with their defcriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and refined upon them. The appellation of... | |
 | William Robertson - 1787 - 478 pagina’s
...confider as their due, thought they could not ex-- ceed in gratitude to fuch a benefactor, and ftrained their invention, and employed all their ingenuity...in panegyric. Succeeding authors, warmed with their defcriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added to them. The appellation... | |
 | William Robertson - 1798 - 440 pagina’s
...invention, and employed all their ingenuity in panegyric. Succeeding authors, warmtd with their defcriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added to them. The appellation of Fatbf Letters bcftowed upon Francis, hath render memory facred among hiftorians ; and they feen to... | |
 | 1800 - 586 pagina’s
...due, thought they could not exceed in gratitude to fuch a benefactor, and ftrnined their invmtion, and employed all their .ingenuity in panegyric. Succeeding authors, warmed with their defcriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their" encomiums, and refined upon them. The appellation... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 486 pagina’s
...denied the respect to which they conceive themselves entitled, than apt to be pleased when treated with the distinction which they consider as their due,...Succeeding authors, warmed with their descriptions df Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added to them. The appellation of Father of... | |
 | William Robertson - 1810 - 412 pagina’s
...denied the respect to which they conceive themselves entitled, than apt to be pleased when treated with the distinction which they consider as their due,...employed all their ingenuity in panegyric. Succeeding r.uthors, warmed with their descriptions of Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1811 - 606 pagina’s
...distinction which they consider as their due, though they could not exceed in gratitude to such a benefactor, strained their invention, and employed all their ingenuity...Succeeding authors, warmed with their descriptions of Francis-s bounty, adopted their encomiums, und refined upon them. The appellation of Father of Letters,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 648 pagina’s
...denied the respect to which they conceive themselves entitled, than apt to be please^ when treated with the distinction which they consider as their due, thought they could not exceed in gratitude to s* such a benefactor, and strained their invention, and employed ail their ingenuity in panegyric.... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pagina’s
...denied the respect to winch they fancy themselves entitled, than apt to be pleased when treated with the distinction which they consider as their due,...Succeeding authors, warmed with their descriptions of Francis" bounty, adopted their encomiums> and re- • fined upon them. The appellation of father of... | |
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Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added to them. The appellation of Father of Letters bestowed upon Francis, hath rendered his memory sacred among historians ; and. they seem to have regarded it as a sort of impiety to uncover his infirmities,... 
