| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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