 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 566 oldal
...disposition) " who believed him proud and imperious, from which no mortal mm " was ever more free." " He was superior to all those passions and " affections...minds, and was guilty of no other " ambition than knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men; " and that made him a contemner of those arts... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1839 - 706 oldal
...deprived of great jewels in the concealment of them, and that they are not published to the world. He was superior to all those passions and affections...a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs. In the last short parliament, he was a burgess in the house of... | |
 | 1842 - 360 oldal
...those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation . . . He was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men. He was so jealous of the least imagination that he should incline to preferment, that he affected even... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1843 - 904 oldal
...bis arm, " who was superior to all those passions and motives that affect vulgar minds — who had no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men. It was an honour, ray friend, to be esteemed by one who never admitted a man to his intimate conversation... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 oldal
...and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. He was superior to all those passions and affections...much a contemner of those arts which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs. In the last short parliament he was a burgess in the House of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 oldal
...sublime parts, and of untouched reputation in point of integrity ; and such men had a title to his bosom. He was superior to all those passions and affections...much a contemner of those arts which must be indulged in the transaction of human affairs. In the last short Parliament, he was a burgess in the House of... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 580 oldal
...nothing ; that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air. * » He was superior to all those passions and affections...men, and that made him too much a contemner of those acts which must be indulged m the transactions of human affairs. In the last short Parliament he was... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 oldal
...nothing ; that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air. * * He was superior to all those passions and affections...men, and that made him too much a contemner of those acts which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs. In the last short Parliament he was... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 oldal
...reform those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. " He was superior to all those passions and affections...men; and that made him too much a contemner of those acts which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs. In the last short parliament he was... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1852 - 412 oldal
...refine those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation. . . He was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men. He was so jealous of the least imagination that he should incline to preferment, that he affected even... | |
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He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men ; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts which must be indulged... 
