 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1758 - 668 pages
...the ftrongeft argument wiiich could be urged in fupport of the caufc he defended. JOHN Lord Somers, ' One of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiltorians of the laft age, and its beft authors, reprei'ent... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1759 - 272 pages
...to Dr. Whichcot's felect difcourfes," which his Lordftiip publifhed. octavo. JOHN LORD SOMERS, ON E of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...while all the reft is tyranny, corruption and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft age, and it's beft authors reprefent... | |
 | Brutus (pseud.) - 1774 - 342 pages
...ingenious Walpnle, in his royal and noble authors, lays of Lord Somers, and of Su/ift't hiltory, viz. " He was one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, retnain unprofaned, while all the rell is tyranny, corruption and folly." Speaking of the Dean's hiftory,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1792 - 544 pages
...Preface to Dr. Whichcot's feleft difMcourfes," which his Lordfliip publiflied. 8vov JOHN LORD SOMERS, ONE of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft age, and its beft authors, reprefent... | |
 | 1794 - 540 pages
...the juUice and ecjuity, becoming a great magiftrate." A noble writer of our own times * calls him " one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprifitned, whillt all the reif is tyranny, corruption, ?.nd foily. All the traditional accounts of... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1795 - 684 pages
...nervous and fpirited pencil of Lord Orford, in his " Catalogue •* of Royal and Noble Authors." — " He was '' one of thofe divine men, who like a chapel " in a palace remain unprofaned, whilft all the •' reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All " the traditionary accounts of him,"... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - Great Britain - 1795 - 132 pages
...but mark what follows. An act of parliament was immediately pafled, which, in oppofition to every * "One of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprdphancd , while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 430 pages
...nervous and fpirited pencil of Lord Orford, in his " Catalogue « of Royal and Noble Authors."—" He was " one of thofe divine men, who like a chapel " in a palace remain unprofaned, whilft all the " reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All 11 the traditionary accounts of him,"... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...elegant a fcholar as Lord Somers : who, to ufe the remarkable words of a late agreeable biograpber, (Horace Walpole) was one of thofe divine men, who,...uninterefted patronage of literature, appears in the benefaction be gave on this occafion, (of rebuilding the college chapel) which was one hundred pounds."... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1804 - 492 pages
...nervous and fpirited pencil of Lord Orford, in his " Catalogue of " Royal and Noble Authors." — " He was one " of thofe divine men, who like a chapel in a " palace remain unprofaned, whilft all the reft is " tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the tra" ditionary accounts of him," adds... | |
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he was one of those divine men who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. 
