 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 556 oldal
...and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absoluto faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever...violent and distempered humours, than to inflame them. * * * * After he was among those members accused by the king of high treason, he was much altered ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 oldal
...a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew. In the first entrance into the troubles, he undertook the command of a regiment of foot, and performed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 oldal
...a very wise man and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and whose power nothing was too vas t, for whose inspection nothing was loo It is sufficient to recapitulate shortly the acts of the Long Parliament during its first session.... | |
 | 1858 - 572 oldal
...say " he was indeed a very wise man, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people of any man I ever knew." He was foremost of those who drew the sword and threw away the scabbard, to compel a perfidious king... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 710 oldal
...indeed, a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed of the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew." A joke used to be told by Mr. Madison to this effect. Some years after the period of which we have... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 oldal
...very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, that is, the most absolute faculties to govern the people,...the first year of the parliament, he seemed rather e.ff., Laud. 2 The Long Parliament. 3 ie, ingenuous. to moderate and soften the violent and distempered... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 oldal
...very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, that is, the most absolute faculties to govern the people,...the first year of the parliament, he seemed rather 1 eg. Land. 2 The Long Parliament. • ie, ingenuous. to moderate and soften the violent and distempered... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 oldal
...a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew. In the first entrance into the troubles, he undertook the command of a regiment of foot, and performed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 oldal
...person. He was indeed a very wise man, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people of any man I ever knew.' That is the view of an opponent, and if it means no more than that he was an honest if mistaken man... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 360 oldal
...very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, that is, the most absolute faculties to govern the people,...than to inflame them. But wise and dispassioned men [such as my Lord Clarendon ?] plainly discerned that that moderation proceeded from prudence and observation... | |
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He was indeed a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, that is, the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew. 
