 He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 1881807Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...society.-f- He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired th« powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. • Perhaps n< human being was ever more perfectly exempt from... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 512 pages
...invited friendship. ' I admired,' says Mr. Gibbon, after describing a day passed with him at Lausanne, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the [Statue of Fox, in Bloomsbury Square.] softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...Mirabeau. ciety.3 He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...private society 3. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. ' Memoires Secrets de la Cour de Berlin, par Mirabeau. 3 See... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...private society 3. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...always very anxious about. 1 Of Fox, by Gibbon : "I admired the powers of a superior man, as they were blended in his attractive character with all the softness and simplicity of a child. No human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood." And... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1846 - 566 pages
...amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - Caricature - 1851 - 524 pages
...great man should give of another, his rival." And in his autobiography, says, "I admired in Mr. Fox the powers of a superior man, as they are blended...character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever freer from all taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood." After breakfast... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 534 pages
...invited friendship. ' I admired,' says Mr Gibbon, after describing a day passed with him at Lausanne, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended,...character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood.' The... | |
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