 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 sivua
...delightful temper; and with a mindmoft perfectly difinterefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance, and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 sivua
...delightful temper; and with a mind moft perfectly difinterefted. But it "would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance, and ipirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 sivua
...delightful temper ; and with a mind moft perfectly di& interefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomethihg of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darkiicfs, nex^... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 sivua
...delightful temper j and with a mind moft perfectly difinterefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted fomething of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darknefs, next... | |
 | 1867 - 636 sivua
...man of ' admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile under* standing, fitted for every kind of business, of infinite wit and ' pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per' fectly disinterested. His great defect was a want of firmness ' which made him unable to resist... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 444 sivua
...delightful temper; and with a mind moft perfectly difir.terefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to dvny that he wanted forncthing of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 sivua
...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 - 1807 - 540 sivua
...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...adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, tt> deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,... | |
 | W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 sivua
...watch over the youthful innocent. He was a man, says Burke, of admirable parts, of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. Й68 Comparative Statement of the India Bills of Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, by RB Sheridan, Esq. 4ft>. 5*.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 sivua
...masterly character is given of him by Burke. " 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." On the same Subject. LoRD NoRTH said, that no amendment being proposed to the address, he concluded... | |
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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... 
