 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 544 σελίδες
...Burke speaks of him in the following terms: 'He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort...business; of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temperament, and with a mind most disinterested.' NORTHALLERTON, a parliamentary borough of England,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 σελίδες
...employed advantageously. Lord North was a man of admirable 'parts ; of general knowledge, of a ttnatitt understanding, fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry .'and of a deli ;htful temper. Bonn. CHARACTER, LETTER. CHARACTER comes from the Greek X"pam)p, signifying... | |
 | Henry Ripley - 1884 - 190 σελίδες
...a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every kind of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper, and with a mind most disinterested." He continued in office until 1781, and succeeded his father as Earl of Guildford in... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 σελίδες
...disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versa- . . •, . tile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 592 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 - 1896 - 248 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. ' ' 8 16. Blue Ribbon. The broad, dark-blue ribbon worn across the breast, on other occasions than... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 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...pleasantry ; of a delightful temper ; and with a mind most per5 fectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 266 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. " 8 16. Blue Ribbon. The broad, dark-blue ribbon worn across the breast, on other occasions than solemn... | |
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