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... manners brutal ; full of craft , rapacious , without faith , without religion ; but circumspect , steady and courageous for his ends , not for glory . BURKE . Of the violent character of William , his rapa- city , despotism , and ...
... manners brutal ; full of craft , rapacious , without faith , without religion ; but circumspect , steady and courageous for his ends , not for glory . BURKE . Of the violent character of William , his rapa- city , despotism , and ...
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... manners of the gentleman : but under this fascinating outside was concealed a heart that could descend to the basest artifices , and sport with its own honour and veracity . No one would believe his assertions or trust his pro- mises ...
... manners of the gentleman : but under this fascinating outside was concealed a heart that could descend to the basest artifices , and sport with its own honour and veracity . No one would believe his assertions or trust his pro- mises ...
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... the hands of too powerful vassals , were in a manner dismembered from the kingdom ; the royal authority was very low in what remained . He reunited to the crown a country as valuable as 18 P. III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... the hands of too powerful vassals , were in a manner dismembered from the kingdom ; the royal authority was very low in what remained . He reunited to the crown a country as valuable as 18 P. III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... manners and character of the age . They both reigned over proud and factious nobles , jealous of their own liberties , but regardless of the liber- ties of others ; and who , though they respected the arbitrary sway of a monarch as ...
... manners and character of the age . They both reigned over proud and factious nobles , jealous of their own liberties , but regardless of the liber- ties of others ; and who , though they respected the arbitrary sway of a monarch as ...
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... manners abrupt ; his utterance em- barrassed . He possessed some taste for litera- ture , and occasionally gave indications of resolu- tion and spirit . But he was passionately fond of parade and pleasure : and the loss of his crown has ...
... manners abrupt ; his utterance em- barrassed . He possessed some taste for litera- ture , and occasionally gave indications of resolu- tion and spirit . But he was passionately fond of parade and pleasure : and the loss of his crown has ...
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Page 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
Page 216 - 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.
Page 171 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
Page 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
Page 103 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
Page 200 - During the session, the first in, and the last out of the house of commons ; he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
Page 169 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
Page 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
Page 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.