 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 562 pages
...table, what "his father had taken anxious years to hoard ; but with all his vices and extravagance, "perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Disinterested 1 Gamier to the Duke D'Aignil- * Roohfort to Stonnont, 18 Ion, 4 Feb. 1774. March, 1774.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1854 - 560 pages
...table, what his father had taken anxious years to hoard ; but with all his vices and extravagance, "perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Disinterested observers already predicted, that he would one day CHAP. be classed among the greatest... | |
 | English essays - 1854 - 754 pages
...which might exist in a descendant of Henry IV. of France ! " " Perhaps no human being," wrote Gibbon, " was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." GROTIUS ON THE RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE. Hugonis Grotii De Jure Belli et Facii ; accompanied by an abridged... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1855 - 420 pages
...gamingtable what his father had taken anxious years to hoard ; but with all his vices and extravagance, "perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...the taint of .malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Disinterested observers already predicted that he would one day be classed among the greatest statesmen... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...sketched with truth of one of the most amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood."* This sketch, which adorns the ' Life,' is shaded by a dark touch or two in the ' Correspondence.' He... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 558 pages
...table, what his father had taken anxious years to hoard; but with, all his vices and extravagance, "perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Disinterested observers already predicted, that he would one day CHAP. be classed among the greatest... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 480 pages
...character of the great statesman is highly honorable to both. " Perhaps no human being," he says, " was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." When once fairly reseated at his task he proceeded in this delightful retreat leisurely, yet rapidly,... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 400 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel arid even to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood."* Mr. Gibbon, like Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke, retained his admiration of Mr. Fox in spite of the most... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 400 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel arid even to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being vyas ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood."* Mr. Gibbon,... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 404 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel and even to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human heing was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood."* Mr. Gibbon,... | |
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He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. 
