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 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...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
...bold, independent, and decisive — a •will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...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
...mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...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
...A mind bold, independent and decisive—a will, despotic in its dictates—an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned,... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...independent and decisive ; a will, despotic in its dictates ; an energy, that distanced expedition ; a conscience, pliable to every touch of interest,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...mind bold, independent, and decisive—a will, despotic in its dictates—an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...mind bold, independent, and decisive ; a will despotick in its dictates ; an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. 3. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...mind, bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever ro;ģe, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...independent, and decisive—a will, despotic in his dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extra ordinary character— the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever... | |
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