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
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...originality. A mind, bold, independent, and de 'je — « will, delpqtic in its dictates— an ene.6, that distanced expedition, and a conscience— pliable...the outline of this extraordinary character,— the matt extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung... | |
| Thomas Morris - Great Britain - 1845 - 330 pages
...gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his awful originality. A mind, bold, independent and decisive;...a will, despotic in its dictates; an energy, that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this... | |
| Thomas Morris - Great Britain - 1845 - 336 pages
...gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his awful originality. A mind, bold, independent and decisive...a will, despotic in its dictates; an energy, that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this... | |
| Thomas Morris - 1845 - 256 pages
...gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his awful originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive...a will, despotic in its dictates : an energy that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...peculiar, he eat upon the throne a sceptred nermit, wrapt— in the solitude of his own originality. Л mind, bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates— an energy, thai distanced expedition, and a conscience — pliable to every touch of in tercet, marked the outline... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 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 quickened... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...the outline of this extraordinary character — the roost extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals ot this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 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 quickened... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 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, independent and decisive — * This character was given at the time of Napoleon's exile to Elba. a will, despotic in its dictates,... | |
| 432 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...outline of this extraordinary character, the most extrordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into... | |
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