 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1758 - 668 pages
...argument wiiich could be urged in fupport of the caufc he defended. JOHN Lord Somers, ' One of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, * remain unprofaned, while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiltorians of the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors - 1759 - 266 pages
...Whichcot's felect difcourfes," which his Lordfhip publifhed, octavo. JOHN LORD SOMERS, \ ON E of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the reft is tyranny, corruption and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...who, to ufe the remarkable words of a late agreeable biograpber, (Horace Walpole) was one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. A new part of his character, his generous and uninterefted... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...who, to ufe the remarkable words of a late agreeable biographer, (Horace Walpole) was one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. A new part of his character, his generous and uninterefted... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...Protestants in 1641. See Percy's Reliques, ut sup. ' Vid. sup. pp. 17- 19. F 3 * * * . " JOHN, LORD SOMERS, ONE of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly *. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 540 pages
...was a favourite rhetorical succedaneum with uncle Toby.] 9 Vid. sup. pp. 30. 52. JOHN, LORD SOMERS, ONE of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,,...unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.2 All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...respected for his talents, and his virtues. A celehrated wiitersumsup his character as follows :— " He was one of those divine men who like a chapel in a palace, remains unprofanod, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption and folly ; the inc;«riupi lawyer, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 860 pages
...(William) and to a greater confidence in him." Burnet. " John, lord Somers, was one of those dirine tnen, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned,...all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...softness, as well as the justice and equity, becoming a great magistrate." Lord Orford calls him " one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 756 pages
...1/84, in the late Sir Charles Cocks, Bart, descended from his sister. " He was," says Lord Orford, " one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, oppression, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its... | |
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He was one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. 
