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" the powers of a superior man, as they are 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. "
The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 188
1807
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Beeton's Complete Orator, Including the Art of Public Speaking and British ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child ; no human being was ever more free from any...public and private character, it probably arose that no English statesmen ever preserved during so long a period of adverse fortunes so many affectionate friends,...
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Half hours of English history, from James the first to queen Victoria ...

English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...powers of a superior man, as they were blended in his attractive character with th« simplicity of a child. No human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood." Nothing can more strongly mark the deep impression made by this part of Mr. Fox's character than the...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 62

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Periodicals - 1881 - 980 pages
...bore the most unqualified testimony to Fox's moral elevation of character. "No human being," he said, "was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood." It was his entire freedom from self -consciousness, which vanity will always betray, that gave Fox...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine

1881 - 976 pages
...bore the most unqualified testimony to Fox's moral elevation of character. ''No human being," he said, "was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood." It was his entire freedom from self-consciousness, which vanity will always betray, that gave Fox a...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child: no human being ever was * * English statesman ever preserved, during so long a period of adverse fortune, so many affectionate...
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History of the Nineteenth Century in the United States and Europe ...

Henry Boynton - Europe - 1891 - 498 pages
...powers of a superior man as they were blended in his attractive character with the simplicity of a child. No human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity or falsehood." He was a great leader of the friends of the human race. The oppressed and the destitute saw in him...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 25

1815 - 664 pages
...character, with all the softness 1 and simplicity of a child;' J it was because ' no human be• ing was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity or • falsehood ; ' * it was for his pure honour, for his tender heart, for his manly character ; it was for this eminent...
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