 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...nothing unmixed, all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness ; and marked him for i\ traitor, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...simulation. He was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once denoted his profligacy and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a juggler. In his style of writing,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1811 - 506 pages
...: he was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory " qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those " contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once " denoted his profligacy and his meanness, and marked " him for a traitor and a juggler : in his very style of... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 422 pages
...unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation; — a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing, there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties; — the most groveling ideas... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation—a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and...motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and bis meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his style and writing, there was... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1816 - 744 pages
...nothing unmixed : all-affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes, and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 630 pages
...a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust; and... | |
 | 1817 - 630 pages
...heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes ; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust; and... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; — a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes ; and...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing; there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties ; — the most groveling ideas... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 670 pages
...heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes , and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which...meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster." Mr. Sheridan now shewed, by evidence, that the twofold accusation against the Begums was unjust ; and... | |
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Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory... 
