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" He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ... - Page 216
by Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...manner fufpended. It's equipoife was totally gone. I do not mean to fpeak difrefpedfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge ; of a verfatile underftanding fitted for every fort of bufinefs ; of infinite wit and pleafantry ; of a delightful...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...New to the Old Whigs. ' L ' NORTH (LORD.)' I 60 not mean to fpeak difrefpectfully of Lord* North. ' He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a verfatilc underftanding fitted for every fort of bufmcfs; of infinite wit and pleafantryj of a delightful...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 8

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 444 pages
...delightful temper; and with a mind moft perfectly difir.terefted. But it would be only to degrade myfelf by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to dvny that he wanted forncthing of the vigilance and fpirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 126

1867 - 642 pages
...mouth.' But the same great orator, in his letter to a ' Noble ' Lord,' describes him in these terms : ' He was a man of ' admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile under* standing, fitted for every kind of business, of infinite wit and ' pleasantry, of a delightful...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8

Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 446 pages
...manner fufpended. Its equipoife was totally gone. I do not mean to fpeak difrefpectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a verfatile underftanding fitted for every fort of bufinefs ; of infinite wit and pleafan'try ; of a...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 8

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...manner fufpended. Its equipoife was totally gone. I do not mean to fpeak difrefpectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a verfiktiPe underftanding fitted for every fort of bufinefs ; of infinite wit and plcafa-ntry ; of a...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge...adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, tt> deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed,...
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Bookseller's catalogues, Volumes 1-4

W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 pages
...was so polite as to lend- hk person to watch over the youthful innocent. He was a man, says Burke, of admirable parts, of general knowledge ; of a versatile...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. Й68 Comparative Statement of the India Bills of Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, by RB Sheridan, Esq. 4ft>. 5*....
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 23

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...character in general, indeed, cannot be concluded in more comprehensive terms than those of Burke : — " He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge...pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, and with a mind most disinterested."i i Annual Register, passim.— BryJges's edition ofCellini's Pee rags, fcc. Sue. NORTH...
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Collins's Peerage of England: Contains the earls from the commencement of ...

Arthur Collins - Great Britain - 1812 - 556 pages
...the happiness to be thus recorded in the beautiful language of his great opponent, Burke himself. " He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge;...; of a delightful temper, and •with a mind most disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory...
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