 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1902 - 302 oldal
...forty years, was absolutely governed by the Duke of Marlborough, as that republic feels to this day. He was always cool, and nobody ever observed the least...with him and in some degree comforted by his manner. With all his gentleness and gracefulness no man living was more conscious of his situation nor maintained... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 292 oldal
...forty years, was absolutely governed by the Duke of Marlborough, as that Republic feels to this day. He was always cool, and nobody ever observed the least...with him, and in some degree comforted by his manner. With all his gentleness and gracefulness no man living was more conscious of his situation nor maintained... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901
...forty years, was absolutely governed by the Duke of Marlborough, as that republic feels to this day. He was always cool ; and nobody ever observed the...him and, in some degree, comforted by his manner. With all his gentleness and gracefulness, no man living was more conscious of his situation, nor maintained... | |
 | Ignatius Sancho - 1998 - 336 oldal
...Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope (London, 1774, with many subsequent editions): "[Marlborough] was always cool; and nobody ever observed the least...him and, in some degree, comforted by his manner." Sancho apparently alludes to the same passage from Chesterfield in letter LVI (vol. II). 2 The break-up... | |
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He was always cool ; and nobody ever observed the least variation in his countenance : he could refuse more gracefully than other people could grant ; and those who went away from him the most dissatisfied, as to the substance of their business, were... 
