 | William Laud - Bishops - 1839 - 584 pages
...ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils; it does not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought...Court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air ; nor was it more in his power to be without promotion, and titles, and wealth,... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1851 - 362 pages
...swayed him to do an unjust or unkind thing. If he had an immoderate ambition, with which he was charged, it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it with] him to court, but rather found it there. He needed no ambition, who was seated in the hearts of two such masters."... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Anecdotes - 1851 - 348 pages
...swayed him to do an unjust or unkind thing. Jf he had an immoderate ambition, with which he was charged, it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it with' him to court, but rather found it there. He needed no ambition, who was seated in the hearts of two such masters.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pages
...money leading him to do any unkind action. "If," says Lord Clarendon, "he had an immoderate ambition, it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it to the Court, but rather found it there. He needed no ambition, who was so seated in the hearts of... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils ; it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it with him to the court, but ratherjbund it there, and was a garment necessary for that air. Nor was it more in his power to be... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils; it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that...court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that 'air. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion, and titles, and wealth,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...it be a weed) apt to grow in the hest soils, it does not appear that it was in his nature, or that M Brought it with him to the Court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion and titles and wealth,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils ; it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that...Court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion, and titles, and wealth,... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...with which he was charged, and it is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils, it does not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought...Court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion and titles and wealth,... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - Great Britain - 1908 - 506 pages
...with which he was charged, and it is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils, it does not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought...Court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion and titles and wealth,... | |
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If he had an immoderate ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils ; it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it with him to the court, but rather found it there, and was... 
