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Critical and Historical Essays: Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress ... - Page 52
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...seemed to be, which shortly after appeared to every body, when he cared less to keep on the mask. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...of parts not to be imposed upon, by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished...
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A select collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, with anecdotes ...

Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...Chalgrave-field, in Oxfordshire, and died in 1643. He was of an industry and vigilance never to be tired out, of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle, and of courage equal to his best parts. During the time in which Mr. Hampden, was engaged in the civil...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power pver other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He wag »f an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or...laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...affections, and had thereby a great power over other m He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tir out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to...
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Die Werke des Wassers betrachtet auf einer Nordlandfahrt: Vortrag gehalten ...

Max Wilhelm Meyer - 1809 - 786 pages
...governor over all his passions, and affections, and had thereby a great power over other mens. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...parts not to be imposed upon, by the most subtle, or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished...
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Neal's History of the Puritans: Or, The Rise, Principles, and Sufferings of ...

Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - Dissenters, Religious - 1811 - 802 pages
...of a colonel on all occasions punctually, being a man of great personal courage, not to be tired out by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle, but because he fought against the court, Lord Clarendon says (if this be not an interpolation of the...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 17

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections ; and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or...not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts : so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other mens. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...of parts not to be imposed upon, by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts, so that he was an enemy not to be wished...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections; and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or...to be imposed upon, by the most subtle and sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts: so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever...
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