 | 1809 - 530 pages
...and the purity of his morals was never questioned. In short, to use the words of a very great man, ' a character, of virtues so happily tempered ' by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, is hard' ly to be found in the pages of history. ' * Mr Marshall is steady in his approbation of the... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pages
...Looking to this exception, " we must," says hi*, " reflect not only, that u character of virtue? sc happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed...of history, but that even Washington himself might iwt have been able to act his most glorious of all parts, without the existence of circumstances uncommonly... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...and the purity, of his morals was never questioned. In short, to use the words of a very great man, ' a character, of virtues so happily tempered * by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, is hard' ly to be found in the pages of history.' * Mr Marshall is steady in his approbntion of the... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...temperate, and the purity of his morals was never questioned. In short, to use the words of Mr Fox, " a character, of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, is hardly to be found in the pages of history." By all classes of citizens in the United States, the... | |
 | Armand Carrel - Great Britain - 1857 - 660 pages
...a people whom their origin and near relation to us would almost warrant us to call our own nation, have afforded a splendid and perhaps a solitary exception,...to act his most glorious of all parts without the existance of circumstances uncommonly favourable, and almost peculiar to the country which was to be... | |
 | Edward Everett - Generals - 1860 - 384 pages
...the only human being for whom I ever felt an awful reverence." Mr. Charles James Fox remarks of him, that "A character of virtues, so happily tempered by one another and so wholly unalloyed by any vices, as that of Washington, is hardly to be found on the pages of history." Lord Brougham,... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...temperate, and the purity of his morals was never questioned. In short, to use the words of Mr Fox, 'a character of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, is hardly to be found in the pages of history.' By all classes of citizens in the United States, the... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed by any vices, is hardly to be found on the pages of history. For him it has been reserved to run the... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed by any vices, is hardly to be found on the pages of history. For him it has been reserved to' run the... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
...little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed by any vices, is hardly to be found on the pages of history. For him it has been reserved to run the... | |
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... a character of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, as that of Washington, is hardly to be found in the pages of history... 
