 A mind, bold, independent, and 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 this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps,...  The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar, and on Various ... - Page 179by Charles Phillips - 1821 - 249 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. "2. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar-he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in tho solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent,...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. 1'lung mto life in the midst of a revolution that quick enerl every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...pliable to every touch of interest', marked the outlines of this extraodinary character^: this aiost extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose', or reigned', or fell\ 2. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...most extraordinary perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a Revolution that quietened... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in vޡ ru ~ M ^B= ,\ Pʝ 4t- O V @rv 'k {, e v sZ > nnd a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1881 - 402 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...conscience pliable to every touch of interest marked the outliue of this extraordinary character, the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped up in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expo lii ion, and a conscience pliable,to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary... | |
 | W. Harlan Cord - Europe - 1885 - 564 pages
...that, " he was wrapt in the solitude of his own originality, and was the most extraordinary character, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell, the man without a model, and without a shadow!" These relics of the First Consul are unquestionably... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1886 - 390 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon his throne, n sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...annals of this world ever rose or reigned or fell. 2. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1886 - 426 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon his throne, a seeptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent and decisive ; a will despotic iu its dictates; an energy that distanced expedition and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest... | |
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