 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...and lost " In the wide womb of uncreated night, " Devoid of sense and motion ?" F '2 It Halifax, was "a man of great and ready wit; full of life, and very pleasant; ouch turned to satire. He let his wit run much on matters of Religion : so tfat he passed for a bold... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 434 pages
...till his death, which happened in April 1695. Bishop Burnet, from personal knowledge, characterises him as a man of great and ready wit, full of life and very pleasant, but much turned to satire. " In a fit of sickness," says the bishop, " I knew him very much touched with a sense of religion.... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...extravagant vanity in setting himself out, that it was very disagreeable." Saville, marquis of Halifax, was " a man of great and ready wit ; full of life, and very pleasant ; much turned to satire. He let his wit run much on matters of religion : so that he passed for a bold... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...some signs of repentance, which, according to Burnet, were transient. " He was," says that writer, " a man of great and ready wit, full of life and very pleasant, much turned to satire; he let his wit turn upon matters of religion ; so that he passed for a bold... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...some signs of repentance, which, according to Burnet, were transient. " He was," says that writer, " a man of great and ready wit, full of life and very pleasant, much turned to satire ; he let his wit turn upon matters of religion ; so that he passed for a bold... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...some signs of repentance, which, according to Unmet, were transient. " He was," says that writer, " a man of great and ready wit, full of life and very pleasant, much turned to satire ; he let his wit turn upon matters of religion; so that ho passed for a bold... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1831 - 656 pages
...the council, temp. Charles I!. He was esteemed a statesman of the first grade. Burnet characterizes him " as a man of great and ready wit; full of life, and very pleasant, but rauch turned to satire: his imagination was too hard for his judgment; and a severe jest took more... | |
 | John Burke - 1838 - 624 pages
...president of the council temp. CHARLES I. and Buraet describes him " as a man of great and ready wit ; fall of life and very pleasant, but much turned to satire ; his imagination was too hard for hi* judgment ; and a severe jeitt took more with him than all arguments whatever. He let his wit run... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 572 pages
...opposition thenceforward till his death, which took place in 1693. " He was," says bishop Bumet, " a man of great and ready wit, full of life and very pleasant, much turned to satire ; he let his wit turn upon matters of religion ; so that he passed for a bold... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...but being distrusted by all parties, he withdrew from publio affairs in 1689. " He was," says Burnet, "a man of great and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, much turned to satire .... He was punctual in his payments and just in all his private dealings; but... | |
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as a man of great and ready wit ; full of life and very pleasant, but much turned to satire ; his imagination was too hard for his judgment; and a severe jest took more with him than all arguments whatever. 
