 | 1814 - 550 pages
...decisive; a will despotic in its dictates; an energy that distanced expedition ; and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people that acknowledged... | |
 | John Hampdon - 1815 - 638 pages
...; a will despotic in its dictates ; an energy that distanced expedition ; and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1817 - 166 pages
...decisive; a will, despotic, in its dictate*; an energy that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest> marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in tbe annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. " Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1817 - 234 pages
...•will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this, extraordinary character — the most extra ordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extra\; CHARACTER OP N. BUONAPARTE. 201 ordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Forensic orations - 1821 - 278 pages
...— a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, »in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...decisive ; a will, despotic in its dictates ; an energy, that distanced expedition ; a conscience, pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or tell. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people that acknowledged... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 484 pages
...decisive; a will, despotic in its dictate ; an energy that distance's expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people that acknowledged... | |
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy... 
