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Peerage of England. ... - Page 296
by Arthur Collins - 1812
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...he seemed to be, which shortly after appeared to every body, when he cared less to keep on the mask. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired...best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend, and as much to be apprehended where he was so, as any man...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...talents for business were as remarkable as his talents for debate. ' He « was,' says Clarendon, ' of an industry and vigilance not to be * tired out...parts not to ' be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp.' Yet it was rather to his moral than to his intellectual qualities that he was indebted...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power pver other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired...laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He wag »f an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or...laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...affections, and had thereby a great power over other m He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tir out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Die Werke des Wassers betrachtet auf einer Nordlandfahrt: Vortrag gehalten ...

Max Wilhelm Meyer - 1809 - 786 pages
...little; that part oi Justice rnoveth in a frame, troubles, he undertook the command of a regiment of foot, and performed the duty of a colonel, upon all...best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might: have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where lie was so, as any...
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Neal's History of the Puritans: Or, The Rise, Principles, and Sufferings of ...

Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - Dissenters, Religious - 1811 - 802 pages
...of a colonel on all occasions punctually, being a man of great personal courage, not to be tired out by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle, but because he fought against the court, Lord Clarendon says (if this be not an interpolation of the...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 17

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections ; and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired...of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts : so that he was an enemy not to be wished...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 4

William Harris - 1814 - 428 pages
...no corrupt or private ends could byass them. He was very temperate in diet, and a supream governour over all his passions and affections, and had thereby...best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend ; and as much to be apprehended where he was so, as any man...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections; and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired...of parts not to be imposed upon, by the most subtle and sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to be wished...
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