 | Penelope Morrison Chambers - 2006 - 742 pages
...Walter Scott should have been asked to do the same in his description of Oliver Cromwell's character? It was also remarked of Cromwell, that, though born...democratic ruler could never acquire, or else disdained to practice the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in their intercourse with each other.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 188? - 970 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 intercowse with each other.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1916 - 660 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...mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education1 and breeding connected with such an advantage, the fanatic democratic ruler could never... | |
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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... 
