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" The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty; and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his... "
Mirabeau's letters, during his residence in England; with anecdotes &c., tr ... - Page 94
by Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 3

David Hughson - London (England) - 1806 - 686 pages
...was original and unaccommodating, and tire features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. No state chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics,...idle contest for ministerial victories, sunk him to tire vulgar level of the great ; but overhearing, persuasive, and impracticable, his object was England,...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 4

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...hardihood of antiquity. No state chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contests for ministerial victories sunk him to the vulgar level of the great. Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age magnanimous. With one...
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Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of ...

Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty. One of his sovereign! thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that...he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved ';. ,in his superiority. No state chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contest...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty ; and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired...him, in order to be relieved from his superiority. No state-chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contest for minifterial victories sunk...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty ; and one of our Sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence,...him, in order to be relieved from his superiority. No state-chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contest for ministerial victories sunk...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...hardihood of .antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty ; and one of his sovereigns thought majesty so impaired in his presence, that -he conspired to remove him, in order to berelieved from his superiority. No state chicanery — no narrow system of vicious politics- — no...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan

Henry Grattan - Great Britain - 1822 - 406 pages
...character had the hardihood of antiquity; his august mind over-awed majesty; and one of his sovereignsf thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that...from his superiority. No state chicanery, no narrow systems of vicious politics, no idle contest for ministerial victories sunkjiim to the vulgar level...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan

Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1822 - 406 pages
...character had the hardihood of antiquity ; his august mind overawed majesty; and one of his sovereigns f thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that...from his superiority. No state chicanery, no narrow systems of vicious politics, no idle contest for ministerial victories sunk him to the vulgar level...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and s, wit politic», no idle contest for ministerial victories, sunk him to the vulgar level of the great; but...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the ...

John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired...chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contests for ministerial victories, sunk him to the vulgar level of the great; but overbearing, persuasive...
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