 If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary minds, and oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness — nay, the discipline of those feelings which are...  Works of Henry Lord Brougham ... - Page 136by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire scbjuiation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue herself—joined with, or rather leading to the most absolute self-denial, the most habitual and exclusive... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...respected neutrality. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue herself,—joined with, or rather leading to the most absolute self-denial, the most habitual and exclusive... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...wont to lull or to seduce genius, and to mar and to clood over the aspect of virtue herself— joined with, or rather leading to the most absolute self-denial,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...herself — joined with, or rather leading to the most obstinate self-denial, the most habitual and exclusive devotion to principle — if these things can... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1857 - 450 pages
...establishment of the usurper.* The States of America, in some sort, enter into the European system. Then" origin is European. They all have been portions of...and oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness,—nay, the discipline of those feehngs which are wont to lull or to seduce genius, and to... | |
 | John Peyre Thomas - Legislators - 1857 - 432 pages
...information, there be added profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which " carry havoc through ordinary...oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness," and if these things constitute a great character, then was our departed statesman great. 2. Another... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...the fairest prospects ol greatness—nay, the discipline of those feelings which are wont to lull or seduce genius, and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue herself—joined with, or rather leading to, the most absolute self-denial; the most habitual and exclusive... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...aspect of virtue herself, — joined with, or rather mand, above all of Ney, whose want of principle is shown in each page, and indeed of every quality... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...greatness, — nay, the discipline of those feelings that are wont to lull or seduce genius, and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue herself,... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 pages
...than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary...and oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness,—nay, the discipline (206) of those feelings which are wont to lull or to seduce genius,... | |
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