 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 552 Seiten
...he held till 1783, when he retired from public life. " He was," says his great opponent Mr. Burke, " a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for all sorts of business ; of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 528 Seiten
...he held till 1783, when he retired from public life. " He was," says his great opponent Mr. Burke, " a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for all sorts of business ; of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 590 Seiten
...manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 586 Seiten
...manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge;...a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would he only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...I should then with double pain Feel all the rigour of thy fickle clime. (Cowper's Task.) Lord North was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge,...sort of business , of infinite wit and pleasantry, and of a delightful temper. (Burke.) In the heigth of his reputation , and at a premature period of... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 Seiten
...; for it is from the hand of an adversary. " I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge...and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper; and with a miud most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 834 Seiten
...him to the gratitude or admiration of the English people. Burke has thus deULoated his character : " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge,...versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of btii-inc-s : of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delighttV.l temper, and with a mind most disinterested."... | |
 | George Roberson, John Richard Green - 1859 - 146 Seiten
...in the choice they made of their Chancellor. " He was," says his great political opponent, Burke, " a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ;...infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, with a mind most disinterested." To this eulogium of Burke, on one whom he does not hesitate to call... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 Seiten
...equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirahle parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of husiness ; of infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper ; and with a mind most perfectly... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 794 Seiten
...him to the gratitude or admiration of the English people. Burke has thus delineated his character : " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge,...and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, and with ft mind most disinterested.'" Gibbon, in tho preface to his great history, says of him : " Were I ambitious... | |
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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. 
