| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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