 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 oldal
...compliance with all the evil which was then done was necessary to* Dedication to King Arthur. b " JntKatn , of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | 1835 - 740 oldal
...pursued him with perhaps too just a retribution during the remainder of his life. James * " Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 376 oldal
...occasionally leaning to the vanquished, and always tempering the triumph of the victorious party • " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 oldal
...endeavouring to set up mass, which put the common people into a tumult." Jenny Geddes her • Jotham, of piercing wit, and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move aesembliee, but who only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side : Nor chose aloue, but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 oldal
...state : "Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit,§ and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature, and by learning taught, parliamentary deprivation was never to be allowed, and therefore they looked on Sancroft as the archliishop... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 oldal
...his'voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryr den he is described as 'of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 oldal
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 oldal
...seem•to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as 15* " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 oldal
...seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as IS' "oT piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 oldal
...of authority. The unbridled * Temple, Memoirs, part iii. t Dedication to King Arthur. Î " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies; who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance... | |
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