Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a , first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as... Peerage of England. ... - Page 416by Arthur Collins - 1812Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...all have fallen into it more or less. GEOKGE GRENVILLE. Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a first rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding...unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy : and he seemed to have no delight out of... | |
| Isaac Newhall - 1831 - 376 pages
...differences have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure with him, than ever I acted against him ; undoubtedly Mr Grenville was a first rate figure in this country ; with a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart,... | |
| Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...if we may judge from the testimony of many of his cotemporaries, accurately, described by Burke: " With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute...business not as a duty he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy; and he seemed to have no delight out of the house, except in such things... | |
| Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...if we may judge from the testimony of many of his cotemporaries, accurately, described by Burke : " With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undUsipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure wilh which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...differences have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure with him, than ever I acted against him. Undoubtedly...understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he liad an application undissipated and unwearied. He took publick business not as a duty which he was... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...differences have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure with him, than ever I acted against him. Undoubtedly...Grenville was a first-rate figure in this country. With a masculino understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied.... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...party-differences have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainlywith more pleasure weakness which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...differences have been long ago composed; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure own imaginations publick business not as a duty which he was to fulfil , but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 528 pages
...his speech on American taxation, in April, 1774 : — " Undoubtedly, Mr. Grenville was a first rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding,...unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of... | |
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