 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. (IV. Irving's Sk. Sooii.) It was also remarked of Cromwell, that though born...education and breeding, connected with such an advantage , he could never acquire , the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in Iheir intercourse... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...objects as the waves had tossed ashore — ' I'm in-, on Naming of Fleets.'] Exercise. " It was also of Cromwell, that though born of a good family* both...opportunities of education and breeding connected with s^ch an advantage, he never could acquire the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes... | |
 | 1848 - 886 pages
...really intended should be understood. Though born of a good family both by father and mother's side, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...and breeding connected with such an advantage, the democratic ruler could never acquire, or else disdained to practise, the courtesies usually exercised... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 572 pages
...world ; but he ought to have added, that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible, than what he really intended should be understood. It was...born of a good family, both by father and mother, aud although he had the usual opportunities of education and breeding connected with such an advantage,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1856 - 372 pages
...tossed ashore— ' Poems m Naming of Place*.'] Exercise. " li was also of Cromwell, that though bom of a good family, both by father and mother, and although...education and breeding connected with such an advantage, he never could acquire the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in their intercourse... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...Naming of Places.'} Exercise. ' It was also of Cromwell, that though hom of a good family, hoth hy father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education and hreeding connected with such an advantage, he never could acquire the courtesies usually exercised... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 pages
...popular and efficacious art of instruction (Johnson). To impart i»istruction. And although he (Cromwell) had the usual opportunities of education and breeding...higher classes in their intercourse with each other (Scott). Tram up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from him (Prov.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 566 pages
...world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was...democratic ruler could never acquire, or else disdained to practice, the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in their intercourse with each... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 544 pages
...world ; but he ought to have added, that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell, that, though bom of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1895 - 614 pages
...; J but he ought to have added, that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible, than what he really intended should be understood. It was...although he had the usual opportunities of education 2 and breeding connected with such an advantage, the fanatic democratic ruler could never acquire,... | |
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... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing... 
