 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 Seiten
...In his tour to Switzerland (September, 1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I ad47 Me'moire Secret de la Cour de Berlin, par Mirabenu. mired the powers of a superior man, as they... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 Seiten
...conversation.2 In his tour of Switzerland (September 1788) Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness...perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.3 My transmigration from London to Lausanne could not be effected without interrupting the... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 Seiten
...him with idolatry." Gibbon found blended in his attractive character " the powers of a superior man, with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Fox was a clean, frank, sincere man; but he lacked the moral greatness of Burke or Chatham. His father... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 234 Seiten
...a good fellow. ' In his tour to Switzerland Mr. Fox gave me two ' days of free and private society. He seemed to feel ' and even to envy the happiness...powers of a superior man as they are ' blended in his character with the softness and sim' plicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever ' more perfectly... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 334 Seiten
...gave ' me two days of free and private society. ' He seemed to feel and even to envy the hap' piness of my situation, while I admired the ' powers of a superior man as they are ' blended in his character with the softness ' and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no ' human being was ever more perfectly... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 332 Seiten
...piness of my situation, while I admired the 'powers of a superior man as they are ' blended in his character with the softness ' and simplicity of a...child. Perhaps no ' human being was ever more perfectly ex' empted from the taint of malevolence, ' vanity, and falsehood.' OUR GREAT MIDDLE CLASS THE republication... | |
 | Brooks's Club, London - 1907 - 340 Seiten
...without one drop of gall in his whole constitution." " The power of a superior man," said Gibbon, " was blended in his attractive character with the softness...from the taint of malevolence, vanity or falsehood." " He possessed," said Erskine, " above all men I ever knew the most gentle and yet the most ardent... | |
 | Richard Ellis Roberts - 1910 - 390 Seiten
...and Gibbon, most cynical of historians, Gibbon the unenthusiastic and undemonstrative could say, " Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." Rogers' intimate friendship with Fox began about 1796, although he had met him as early as 1791. They... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...man and nominally a political opponent ; yet in 1788 the conviction that he held about Fox was that ' perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.' That he should have fascinated his contemporaries can be understood. Many bad men are made more dangerous... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...man and nominally a political opponent ; yet in 1788 the conviction that he held about Fox was that ' perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.' That he should have fascinated his contemporaries can be understood. Many bad men are made more dangerous... | |
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He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive Character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly... 
