 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...notice of to his reproach ; namely, a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking;...and most imperious nature could be contented with : his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was at least pitied, where he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...lowest degree; " an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous uncler" taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height,...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been ambitious to have lost... | |
 | History - 1802 - 522 pages
...notice of to his reproach : viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness, and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking...preserved and won his life- from those, who were most rewived to take it ; and in an occasion in which. he ought to have-' been ambitious to have lost it... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...lowest degree; " an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous v.nder«* taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height,...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been auibitious to have lost... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1809 - 236 pages
...notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in B Lis nature to the lowest degree ; an abjecthess and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking...and won his life from those who were most resolved la take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...notice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous [undertaking...contented with ; that it preserved and won his life from thcs: who were most resolved to take it ; and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of conrage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation...life from those, who were most resolved to take it, ud in an occasion, in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...abjectness and want of courage to support him in any vir/tuous undertaking ; an insinuating and serpile flattery, to the height the vainest and most imperious...from those who were most resolved to take it, and on an occasion in which he ought to have been amhitious to hnve lost it; and then preserved him again... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...any virtuous undertaking; an insinuating and servile flattery, to the height the vainest and roost imperious nature could be contented with ; that it...from those who were most resolved to take it, and on an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it; and then preserved him again... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...denied that his charges of " abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; insinuation and servile flattery to the height the...and most imperious nature could be contented with ;" are but too well supported. Of his intellectual powers, the same writer observes, that he appeared... | |
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... and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz. a narrowness in his nature... 
