 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperour's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as ir.ade his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advoca^ the wishes of some who favoured... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderinl dum metuant ; he used no allurements... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint, rium metuant: he used no allurements... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...ahilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or moderate; aud his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum meluant : he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which lie disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority, as made his reader* commonly his enemies, and excited ag-iinst the advocate trie wishes of some who favoured the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements... | |
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His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against... 
