 | William Seward - 1795 - 684 oldal
...whofe virtues I admired^ and whofe memory, " as the greateft General, and as the greateft " Minifter that our country, or perhaps any •* other has produced, I honour." The Duke got the nick-name of " Silly" from his ufmg that word when he did not like any propofal that was... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 430 oldal
...whofe virtues I admired, and whofe memory, " as the greateft General, and as the greateft " Minifter that our country, or perhaps any " other has produced, I honour." The Duke got the nick-name of " Silly" from his ufmg that word when he did not like any propofal that was... | |
 | William Seward - 1798 - 536 oldal
...whofe virtues I admired, and vvhofif " memory, as the greateft General, and as the " greateft Minifter that our country, or perhaps ** any other has produced, I honour." The Duke got the nick-name of " Silly'* from his tifing that word when he did not like any prdpofal that... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 500 oldal
...were crowned vvjth the most triumphant success. I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justiqe to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues...country or perhaps any other has produced, I honour. But beside this, the observation I have made comes into my subject, since it serves to point out to... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 oldal
...knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general, and as the greateft minuter, that our country, or perhaps any other, has produced, I honour." The other teftimony to the duke's accompliihments is by the earl of Chelterfjeld, in his Letters to his... | |
 | 1823 - 878 oldal
...doing justice to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired ; and whose memory, ая the greatest general, and as the greatest minister,...or perhaps any other, has produced, I honour." The other testimony to the duke's accomplishments is by the earl of Chesterfield, in hie Letters to his... | |
 | Sibout Cornelis Klinkhamer - 1829 - 244 oldal
...omnes forBelgarum ducibus multa contulit. (i) Works, II. p. 44^ extr- ci 446 "the greatest general and the greatest minister, that our "country or perhaps any other has produced." (2) liisl. of Gr. tasse, quicunque fuerint unquam duces, autecelluit , fuit mira animi tranquillitas... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 oldal
...action. All those wherein he appeared, and many of those wherein he was not then an actor, but abettor, however, of their action, were crowned with the most...country, or perhaps any other, has produced, I honour." * War was formally declared by the Allies against France on the 4th of May, 1702. The principal scenes... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 400 oldal
...great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired ; and whose memory, as the greatest general and the greatest minister that our country, or perhaps any other, has produced, I honor."* War was formally declared by the allies against France on the 4th of May, 1702. The principal... | |
 | 1861 - 620 oldal
...great man — a greater man perhaps than Macaulay gave him credit for. Bolingbroke said of him : ' I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justice...country, or perhaps any other has produced, ' I honour.' A strong testimony from a powerful hand. But notwithstanding this, the charge Macaulay makes is true,... | |
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I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justice to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired, and whose memory, as the greatest general and as the greatest minister that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honour. 
