 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 594 pages
...qualifications for the task, he was doomed to a bitter disappointment. " I was assaulted," says he, " by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation....freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices: and, as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to *hed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of Straflbrd ;... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of Strafford;... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and, as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of Strafford ;... | |
 | David Hume - 1851 - 532 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford;... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1854 - 374 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scottish, and Irish, whig and tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and... | |
 | David Hume - 1856 - 536 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the. subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; Englishj Scotch, and Irish, whig and tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...qualifications for the task, he was doomed to a bitter disappointment. "I was assaulted," says he, "by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even...freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of... | |
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...was my disappointment ; I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disappointment, and even execration. English, Scotch, and Irish ; Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-thinker and religionist, united in their rage against the one man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles... | |
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I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was... 
