 | James Boyd White - Law - 1985 - 328 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. . . . He was not a man of many words, and rarely began the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business... | |
 | Paulina Kewes - Literary Collections - 2006 - 470 pages
...ecclesiastical matters" (1:241; from the "Life"); Hampden was "it may be of the most discerning spirit and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring...man of that time, and who laid the design deepest," "no man had ever a greater power over himself or was less the man that he seemed to be, which shortly... | |
 | Arthur D. Innes - 1914 - 308 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... | |
 | Wren & Martin - Juvenile Fiction - 434 pages
...be ove'rrun by noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use. — Johnson 16. Mr. Hampden was a gentleman of a 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... | |
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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. 
