 | 1835 - 932 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...fretful. Such as it was when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...no sufferings could render sullen or fretful. Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions, and glowing with patriotic hopes, such it continued to be — when, after having experienced... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spiritsdo not eeemtohave been high, but they were singularly equable. His temper...Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the primo of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen nor fretful. Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate arid majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen nor fretful. Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he relumed from his travels, in the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...Such as it was, when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were...fretful. Such as it was, when on the eve of great events he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. His spirits do not seem to have been high, but the}' were singularly equable. His temper was serious, perhaps...it was a temper which no sufferings could render he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions... | |
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His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were singularly equable. His temper was serious, perhaps stern ; but it was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen or fretful. Such as it was when, on the eve of great events, he returned from... 
