 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 pagina’s
...delightful temper; and with a mindmoft perfectly difinterefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance, and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pagina’s
...delightful temper; and with a mind moft perfectly difinterefted. But it "would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance, and ipirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 pagina’s
...delightful temper ; and with a mind moft perfectly di& interefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomethihg of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darkiicfs, nex^... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 pagina’s
...delightful temper j and with a mind moft perfectly difinterefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | 1867 - 636 pagina’s
...man of ' admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile under* standing, fitted for every kind of business, of infinite wit and ' pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per' fectly disinterested. His great defect was a want of firmness ' which made him unable to resist... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 444 pagina’s
...delightful temper; and with a mind moft perfectly difir.terefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to dvny that he wanted forncthing of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pagina’s
...revoke to such a suit ? lay LORD NORTH. HE was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business...vigilance, and spirit of command, that the time required. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. His illness had been long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 pagina’s
...speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business...vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darkness, next to the fog of this awful day, loured over the whole region, For a little time... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 540 pagina’s
...speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge , of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business...adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, tt> deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,... | |
 | W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 pagina’s
...over the youthful innocent. He was a man, says Burke, of admirable parts, of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. Й68 Comparative Statement of the India Bills of Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, by RB Sheridan, Esq. 4ft>. 5*.... | |
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Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only... 
