 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...A mind, bold, independent, and decisive; a will despotic in its dictates; an energy that distanced expedition ; and a conscience pliable to every touch...extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, evei rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy... | |
 | Little magazines - 1901 - 438 pages
...with the flight of his spirit there passed from this world's stage the " most extraordinary man who in the annals of this world ever rose or reigned or fell." "Re-United.' An old man sits in an old arm chair ; Rocking to and fro. His eyes are dim, and gray his... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, Charles Welsh, James Jeffrey Roche - English literature - 1904 - 532 pages
...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...revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity;... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 280 pages
....mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...mind, bold, independent, and decisive, — a will despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, 10 or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a Revolution that quickened... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Basal reading instruction - 1909 - 428 pages
...mind, bold, independent, and decisive,—a will despotic in its dictates—an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, 10 or reigned,... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 pages
...that distanced expedition ; and a conscience, pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outlines of this extraordinary character, — the most extraordinary,...annals of this world ever rose, or reigned, or fell. — Phillips. For fine examples of climax, refer to Victor Hugo's description of the battle of Waterloo,... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 pages
...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 outlines of this extraordinary character, — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 pages
...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 outlines of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of... | |
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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,... 
