 | 1867 - 636 pages
...Minister after the King's own heart, even although, to quote Burke's qualification, ' he may have ' wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command ' that the- time required.' The correspondence which Mr. Donne has ably edited and abundantly illustrated will bring into strong... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance, and spirit of command, that the time required. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. His illness had been long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darkness, next to the fog of this awful day, loured over the whole region, For a little time... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he. wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required." On the same Subject. LoRD NoRTH said, that no amendment being proposed to the address, he concluded... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 564 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required. "k His Lordship died August 5th, 1/92. On March 10, 1/56, his Lordship was married to Anne, daugh>... | |
 | Arthur Collins - Great Britain - 1812 - 556 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required."1His Lordship died August 5th, 1792. On March 10, 1/56, his Lordship was married to Anne,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 492 pages
...court itself. For such a force of opposition lord North was not in all respects qualified. Even Bnrke, whose irritating language during the American war...epithet " rebellion," applied to their resistance, nevei* ceased to be urged until repeated failures prescribed a different language, and made thousands... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance, and spirit of command, that the time required. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. His illness had been long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 410 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance, and spirit of command, that the time required. Bl'RKE. * * * * When in process of time I saw and knew Lord North in his retirement from all public... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance, and spirit of command, that the time required. BURKE. * • » * When in process of time I saw and knew Lord North in his retirement from all public... | |
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... 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. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to... 
