 | Charles Burdett - Ciphers - 1860 - 456 pages
...variagated ; but with hues calculated to offend rather than relieve the contemplative eye. The piclure is an unpleasant one ; but the fault is in the original,...of his ambition, and his body and mind moving, as a serpent, heedless of the means by which he might attain it. In his conduct, there is nothing amiable,... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1925 - 438 pages
...against the Jay treaty. "In retracing his steps, we see nothing to applaud, and less to admire. . . . Throughout there appears a winding, a convenient versatility, a species of refined cunning." He moved like a serpent, and "in his conduct there is nothing amiable, disinterested, magnanimous or... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 436 pages
...against the Jay treaty. "In retracing his steps, we see nothing to applaud, and less to admire. . . . Throughout there appears a winding, a convenient versatility, a species of refined cunning." He moved like a serpent, and "in his conduct there is nothing amiable, disinterested, magnanimous or... | |
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In retracing his steps, we see nothing to applaud, and less to admire. . . . Throughout there appears a winding, a convenient versatility, a species of refined cunning." He moved like a serpent, and "in his conduct there is nothing amiable, disinterested,... 