 | Thomas Raikes - 1856 - 342 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." Wednesday, 17 th. — Came back to town. Cabinet councils are holding daily. Talleyrand is returned... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 Seiten
...and could riot maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." The two foreigners most known at that time in London, he remarks, were Moutrond and Count d'Orsay.... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - 1856 - 378 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." Wednesday, 17 (It. — Came back to town. Cabinet councils are holding daily. Talleyrand is returned... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - 1856 - 366 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." Wednesday, l7 th. — Came back to town. Cabinet councils are holding daily. Talleyrand is returned... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - 1856 - 372 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." Wednesday, 17th. — Came back to town. Cabinet councils are holding daily. Talleyrand is returned... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 672 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed,1' said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in mj life." Montrond must he near sixty -five years old, a protege of Talleyrand, and constant guest... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - 1856 - 348 Seiten
...during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of tulent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in...— that I ever saw in any character in my life." Wednesday, 17 th. — Came back to town. Cabinet councils are holding daily. Talleyrand is returned... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 Seiten
...and could not maintain their composure during the whole of the day. He was indeed," said the Duke, " the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery,...qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that 1 ever saw in any character in my life." Montrond must be near sixty -five years old, a protégé oî... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 600 Seiten
...Duke, ' the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling—in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good—that I ever saw in any character in my life.' " The two foreigners most known at that time in... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 1008 Seiten
...and died June 26. The duke of Wellington, who was no flatterer, said of him after his death : " He was the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit,...had little to do. The England of 1830 bore but small reeemblance to the England of 1820, and still less to that of 1810, when, though as regent only, George... | |
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the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in my life. 
