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
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 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,...dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, and a N conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1857 - 202 pages
...the solitude of his own originality. 3A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic ш its dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition,...character — the most extraordinary perhaps, that, in the aunals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the 5midst of a Revolution... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy', and peculiar', he sat upon the throne a eceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind', bold',...energy' that distanced expedition^; and a conscience v , pliable to every touch of interest', marked the outlines of this extraordinary character": the... | |
| Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 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... | |
| Thomas Morris - 1858 - 356 pages
...gloomy, and peculiar he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped 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... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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,...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1867 - 758 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy', and peculiar', he sat upon the throne a Bceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind', bold',...conscience', pliable to every touch of interest', marked the outlines of this extraodinary character': the inost extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 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 fcll. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened... | |
| Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his owr. originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive...every touch of interest, marked the outline of this ex: 'aordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world ever... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive,—a will, despotic in its dictates,— an energy that...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned,... | |
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