 ... enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; — viz., a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 22by Alexander Chalmers - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking; an insinuation, and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with : his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was at least pitied, where he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous uncler" taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and "most imperious nature...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been ambitious to have lost... | |
 | History - 1802 - 522 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation, and servile flattery to the height, the vainest, and most imperious nature...preserved and won his life- from those, who were most rewived to take it ; and in an occasion in which. he ought to have-' been ambitious to have lost it... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...of courage to support him in any virtuous v.nder«* taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and " most imperious nature...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been auibitious to have lost... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1809 - 236 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...and won his life from those who were most resolved la take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous [undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...contented with ; that it preserved and won his life from thcs: who were most resolved to take it ; and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...courage to support him in any virtuous " under*' undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to i' the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...from those who were most resolved to take " it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have " been ambitious to have lost it ; and then pre" served him... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...want of conrage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...life from those, who were most resolved to take it, ud in an occasion, in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...from those who were most resolved to take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him again... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...want of courage to support him in any vir/tuous undertaking ; an insinuating and serpile flattery, to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...and on an occasion in which he ought to have been amhitious to hnve lost it; and then preserved him again from the reproach and con.tempt that was due... | |
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