 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 142 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...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. 30 But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 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...delightful temper ; and with a mind most perfectly di sinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 1022 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... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1901 - 496 σελίδες
...was,' says his great political opponent, Burke, ' a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort...infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, with a mind most disinterested.' To this eulogium of Burke, on one whom he does not hesitate to call... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 488 σελίδες
...character is given of him by Burke. ' He was a man of admirable parts ; of a general knowledge ; of versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business...vigilance and spirit of command that the time required.' The following Speech is a most masterly defence of himself. It is a model in its kind. MR. BURKE was... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 492 σελίδες
...character is given of him by Burke. ' He was a man of admirable parts ; of a general knowledge ; of versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business...infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper j and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 156 σελίδες
...In the Letter to a Noble Lord, Burke says : " 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 σελίδες
...perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted...vigilance and spirit of command that the time required." 8 11 to repeal the duties upon glass, etc. : These duties were repealed on April 12, 1770. 9 4 left... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 390 σελίδες
...by personal attacks, and undeniably honest. " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested," wrote Burke ; " but it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 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... | |
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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... 
