 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 546 pages
...age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him, the other... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 540 pages
...statesman ; as a masterly orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest andmost extensive views; as a man, who dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him, the other... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...authors, represent him as the moft incorrupt lawyer and the honestest statesman ; as a mafter-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." His eloquence was often exerted in stemming the tide of faction, and in promoting the real interests... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 860 pages
...age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest stateman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote for him, the other... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 514 pages
...authorsi represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer and the honestest statesman ; as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of...extensive views ; as a man who dispensed blessings by his fife, and planned them for posterity." His eloquence was often exerted in stemming the tide of faction,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1811 - 490 pages
...matter orator, a genius of the finest taste, and a patriot of the noblest and most extensive views ; a man who " dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parte and learning, and was the first who redeemed Milton'ยป <(... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 756 pages
...age, and its best authors represent* him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman; as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him; the other... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parts and learning, and particularly of Mr. Addison, who has drawn... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parts and learning, and particularly of Mr: Addison, who has drawn... | |
 | Sir Thomas Bernard - 1818 - 292 pages
...and its best ' authors, represent him as the most incorrupt ' lawyer and the honestest statesman ; as a * master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and...blessings by * his life, and planned them for posterity.' Page 44, line 4. SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN was distinguished as a Mathematician and an Architect. He was... | |
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All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest and most... 
