 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal ot knowledge." He adds, " A thorough profligate in principle as in practice; his...indecency. These morals he glories in, for shame is a weaknes* he has long since surmounted." This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated, and the historian,... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1855 - 592 pages
...the Roman empire, who was his con- Gibbon on temporary, thus speaks of Wilkes: — Wilkes. ' He is a thorough profligate in principle, as in practice ;...he glories in, for shame is a weakness he has long surmounted. He told us himself that, in this time of public dissension, he was resolved to make his... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1855 - 604 pages
...conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in, for shame is a weakness he has long surmounted. He told us himself that, in this time...public dissension, he was resolved to make his fortune. — GIBBON'S Miscellaneous Works. (F. p. 163.) The resolution was as follows: — ' The paper Commons'... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Books - 1856 - 526 pages
...he has inexhaustible spirits, infmite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge." He adds, " a thorough profligate in principle as in practice ;...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated, and the historian, believing him really to confess his political... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 pages
...he has inexhaustible spirits, infmite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge." He adds, " a thorough profligate in principle as in practice ;...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated, and the historian, believing him really to confess his political... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...companion : he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public discussion he was resolved to make his fortune. This proved a very debauched day : we drank a good... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 700 pages
...of the Buckinghamshire Militia, ' He has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, but [is] a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.'^ Such was the demagogue whom the deluded or designing extolled as a patriot ! Among his ' aiders and... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 760 pages
...and humour, but [is] a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with evert/ vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency....dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.'^ Such was the demagogue whom the deluded or designing extolled as a patriot ! Among his 'aiders and... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 750 pages
...of the Buckinghamshire Militia. ' He has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, but [is] a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. Be told us himself that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.'^ Such... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 378 pages
...he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge." He adds, " A thorough profligate in principle as in practice ;...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated, and the historian, believing him really to confess his political... | |
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... thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice. and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that... 
