| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...their hatred : he feems even in fome degree to have poflcfled, to the laft, their love and afFe&ion. His exterior qualities were advantageous and fit to captivate the multitude : his magnificence and peribnal bravery rendered him illuftrious in vulgar eyes : and it may be faid, with truth, that the... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...their hatred: he feems even in feme degree to have poflefied, to the laft, their love and affeclion. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude : his magnificence and perfonal bravery rendered him illuftrinus in vulgar eyes: and it may be faid, with truth, that the... | |
| Great Britain - 1786 - 460 pages
...object of their hatred; he feems even* in fome degree, to have poffefled their Love and affection. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude; his magnificence, and perfonal bravery, rendered him illuftrious to vulgar eyes; and it may be faid with truth, that the... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 488 pages
...their hatred : He feems even in fome degree to have poflefied to the laft their love and affection b. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude : His magnificence and perfonal bravery rendered him illuftrious in vulgar eyes : And it may be faid with truth, that the... | |
| Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...objrft of their hatred; he fccms even, in Icnnc ik«rec, to havt polIcffed their love and afFedtion. Hrs exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude ; his magnificence, and pcrfonal bravery, rendered him illuflricnis m vulgar eyes ; and it mny be faid with truth, rhstthcKnglilh... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...object, of their hatred ; he feems even, in fome degree, to have poflefled their love and aieflion. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude; his magnificence and pcrfqnal bratoy, rendered him illuftrious to vulgar fits; and it may be faid with truth, that the Englifh... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...CHARACTERS, &c. 749 their hatred ; he feems even, in fome degree, to have pofieired their love and affe&ion. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude; his magnificence and pcrfonal bravery, rendered him illuftrious to vulgar eyes ; and it may be faid with truth, that the... | |
| John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...hated by his fubje&s, that he poffefTed in £>me degree, even to the laft, their love and affection. His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit to captivate the multitude. His magnificence and perfonal bravery rendered him illuftrious in vulgar eyes. And it may be faid with truth, that the Englilh... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...their hatred: He seems even in some degree to have possessed to the last their love and affection.'* His exterior qualities were advantageous, and fit...which were exercised over themselves, and at their own ex pence. With regard to foreign states, Henry appears long to have supported an intercourse of friendship... | |
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