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" Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs... "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ... - Page 96
by Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...of religion, and moral honesty ; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs^ without the assistance of a great spirit,...he seemed to have a person in no degree gracious, f no ornament of discourse, none of those talents * Veil. Paterc, lib. 2. c. 24. + Sir Philip Warwick,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...of religion, and moral honesty ; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit,...ornament of discourse, none of those talents which use to conciliate the affections of the slander hy : yet as he grew into place and authority, his parts...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...of religion, and moral honesty ; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit,...seemed to have a person in no degree gracious, no orna/ ment of discourse, none of those talents which use to Conciliate the affections of the stander...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...of religion, and moral honesty ; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit,...seemed to have a person in no degree gracious, no ornatnent of discourse, none of those talents which use to conciliate the affections of the Rtander...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit,...ornament of discourse, none of those talents which use to conciliate the affections of the stander-by : yet as he grew into place and authority, his parts...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons, Richard and ...

Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...of religion and moral honesty ; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit,...circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution. — That when he appeared first in the Parliament, he seemed to have a person in no degree gracious,...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...interest or estate, alliance or friendship ; also, upon his first appearance in Parliament, as having been a person in no degree gracious, no ornament of discourse, none of those talents which use to conciliate the affections of the stander-by. Sir Philip "Warwick says, that the first time he...
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Annual Register, Volume 35

Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...quidem possunt nisi ut simul laudent ; and who, lord Clarendon says, " could never have accomplished his designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a magnanimous resolution." With regard to the history of this letter, I apprehend it bears internal evidence...
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Memoirs of the Protector: Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 2

Great Britain - 1821 - 688 pages
...contempt of religion and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and OLIVER CROMWELL. 315 sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution. — That when he appeared first in...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which ..., Volume 7

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 666 pages
...religion, and moral honesty ; yet 1658. wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs ', without the assistance of a great spirit,...ornament of discourse, none of those talents which use to conciliate s the affections of the stander by : yet as he grew into place and authority, his...
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