 | 1808 - 546 σελίδες
...nothing unmixed, all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness ; and marked him for i\ traitor, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 σελίδες
...simulation. He was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once denoted his profligacy and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a juggler. In his style of writing,... | |
 | David Hume - 1811 - 506 σελίδες
...: he was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory " qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those " contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once " denoted his profligacy and his meanness, and marked " him for a traitor and a juggler : in his very style of... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 422 σελίδες
...unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation; — a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing, there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties; — the most groveling ideas... | |
 | 1816 - 692 σελίδες
...nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation—a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and...motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and bis meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his style and writing, there was... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1816 - 744 σελίδες
...nothing unmixed : all-affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes, and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | 1817 - 630 σελίδες
...a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust; and... | |
 | 1817 - 630 σελίδες
...heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes ; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust; and... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 σελίδες
...unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; — a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes ; and...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing; there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties ; — the most groveling ideas... | |
 | 1821 - 670 σελίδες
...heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes , and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust ; and... | |
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Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory... 
