 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...figure, would not any where allow two pieces of wood or stone to lie over each other at right angles. " The laws, as they stood at present, protected the...they had made, in order to assist the king in his war * Hume. Hist. Eng. VOL. II. 3 L against the Scotch covenanters, was enquired into, and represented... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...figure, would not any where allow two pieces of wood or stone to lie over each other at right angles. " The laws, as they stood at present, protected the...unmolested. The voluntary contribution, which they had made, iu order to assist the king in his war * Hume. Hist. Eng. VOL. II. 3 t against the Scotch covenanters,... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 624 pages
...cultivation of polite letters, and civilized society : The whole discourse and language of the moderns were polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy." It has ever appeared to me, that the works of this celebrated author, with all their genius, and no... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 642 pages
...their souls, or to use the philosophical phraseology of Hume, " whose whole discourse and language were polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy !!" Hist. of ling. vol. vi. ch. £4. sed at length, and separately ; they were in substance similar... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 590 pages
...cultivation of polite letters and civilized society; the whole discourse and language of the moderns were polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy." In all probability, however, the Archbishop would have been brought to his trial, for his grand enemy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...less what he seemed to be, than Mr. Hampden ;' and with Hume, for affirming, ' that his discourse was polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy.' The former part of the charge was more intended for Sir Henry Vane, to whom it is sufficiently applicable;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...less what he seemed to be, tlum Mr. Hampden ;' and with Hume, for affirming, ' that his discourse was polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy.' The former part of the charge was more intended for Sir Henry Vane, to whom it is sufficiently applicable... | |
 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - Great Britain - 1832 - 488 pages
...cultivation of polite letters ' and civilized society: the whole discourse and language of the ' moderns were polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of ' the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy.' (Hist. chap, liv.) Vane was one of the most accomplished men of his age; and his speculations, though... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 434 pages
...cultivation of polite letters and civilised society; the whole discourse and language of the moderns were polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy." * The falsehood of the pretence on which this charge was. raised in the case of Pym and Vane has been shown... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 506 pages
...cultivation of polite letters, and civilised society ; the " whole discourse " of the other being " polluted with mysterious jargon, and full of the lowest and most vulgar hypocrisy." For as strong a refutation of this calumny as the proofs of an improved understanding and enlightened... | |
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The leisure of those noble ancients was totally employed in the study of Grecian eloquence and philosophy ; in the cultivation of polite letters and civilized society : the whole discourse and language of the moderns were polluted with mysterious jargon,... 
