 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 856 σελίδες
...Burke has thus delineated his character : " 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 delight™ temper, and with a mind most disinterested. Gibbon, in the preface to his great history,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 528 σελίδες
...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted somfiHung Qf.tTie~"vigjbtncB, and spirit of... | |
 | George III (King of Great Britain) - 1867 - 452 σελίδες
...business, of infinite wit and " pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per" fectly disinterested ; but it would be only to degrade myself...and '' spirit of command that the time required." An interesting picture of Lord North in domestic society, drawn in February 1839 by his only surviving... | |
 | George III (King of Great Britain) - 1867 - 444 σελίδες
...Lord :" — "He was a man of " admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile under" standing, fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit...pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per" fectly disinterested ; but it would be only to degrade myself " by a weak adulation, and not to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 516 σελίδες
...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 σελίδες
...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 362 σελίδες
...opponent likewise, Edmund Burke, assures us that, " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort...infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and of a mind most perfectly disinterested. But," he adds, " it would be only to degrade myself by a weak... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 504 σελίδες
...Edmund Burke, assures us that, " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a Tersatile understanding, fitted for every sort of business,...infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and of a mind most perfectly disinterested. But," he adds, " it would be only to degrade myself by a weak... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 σελίδες
...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort-...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 - 1877 - 524 σελίδες
...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command... | |
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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 to... 
