 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 670 pages
...spirit. 31. Mr. Hambden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit and of "the greatest address and insinuation ~to~ bring" any thing to pass which he desired 6T any™ man of that tiinB,--Ttntt""wB5~Tai3v fne design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired, of any man of that time,...fair fortune, who, from a life of great pleasure and license, had on a sudden retired to extraordinary sobriety and strictness, and yet retained his usual... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 522 pages
...may be, of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired of any man of that time,...who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction and a fair fortune ; who from a life of great pleasure and license had, on a sudden,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...pass which he desired of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction and a fair fortune ; who from a life of great pleasure and license had, on a sudden, retired to extraordinary sobriety and strictness, and yet retained his usual... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...discerning Spirit, and of the greatest Address and Insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desir'd, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...may be, of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired of any man of that time,...who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction and a fair fortune ; who from a life of great pleasure and license had, on a sudden,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...may be, of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired of any man of that time,...who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction and a fair fortune ; who from a life of great pleasure and license had, on a sudden,... | |
 | Charles Edward Wade - History - 1912 - 418 pages
...may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest." Such a man could ill be spared, for in the field fortune was setting strongly against the Houses. In... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 pages
...spirit. Mr Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring...fair fortune, who from a life of great pleasure and license, had on a sudden retired to extraordinary sobriety and strictness, and yet retained his usual... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Statesmen - 1917 - 626 pages
...may be, of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring anything to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest.' So much is said in Hampden's favour, and then Clarendon reveals the other side : ' No man ever had... | |
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Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest. 
