| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 332 pages
...Grave. He was a man of great Parts, and extraordinary Endowments of Nature ; not unadorn'd with fome addition of Art and Learning, though that again "was more improved and illuftratcd by the other j for he had a readinefs of Conception, and flwpnefc of Expreflion, which... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1717 - 322 pages
...Grave. He was a man of great Parts, and extraordinary Endowments of Nature ; not unadorn'd with fome addition of Art and Learning , though that again was more improved and illuftrated by the other; for he had a readinefs of Conception., R- * • and and fharpnefs of Expreffion,... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...have known, and I believe was the chief occasion of the loss of the earl's head. I. 150, Put Juacl.1 addition of art and learning, though that again was...made his learning thought more than in truth it was. His first inclinations and addresses to the court, were only to.eswbiish1 his greatness in the country;... | |
| William Godwin - Children - 1797 - 508 pages
...Grave. He was a man of great Parts, and extraordinary Endowments of Nature ; not unadorn'd with fome addition of Art and Learning, though that again was more improved and illuŁtrated by the other ; for he had a readinefs of Conception, andfharpnefs of Expreffion, which... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1807 - 500 pages
...grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with fome addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illuftrated by the other ; for he had a readinefs of conception, and fharpnefs of expreflion, which... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...could not but have enemies enough. But he was a man, continues that noble historian, of great parts and extraordinary endowments of nature, not unadorned...of great observation, and a piercing judgment, both in things and persons; b»t his too great skill in person* made him judge the worse of things ; for... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...reputation as an author scarcely merits our notice. " He was a man of great parts," says Lord Clarendon, " and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned...made his learning thought more than in truth it was. His first inclinations and addresses to the court were only to establish his greatness in the country... | |
| Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...could not but have enemies enough. But he was a man, continues that noble historian, of great parts and extraordinary endowments of nature, not unadorned...of great observation, and a piercing judgment, both in things and persons; bat his too great skill in persons made him jtidge the worse of things; for... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...could not but have enemies enough. But he was a man, continues that • noble historian, of great parts and extraordinary endowments of nature, not unadorned...conception, and sharpness of expression, which made his learn ing thought more than in truth it was. He Wag,, no doubt, of great observation, and a piercing... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...sufficient ground of proceeding. His Lordship says of Lord Strafford, that he was a man of great parts and extraordinary endowments of nature, not unadorned...made his learning thought more than in truth it was. That his first inclinations and addresses to the court were only to establish his greatness in the... | |
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