 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty consequence, which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate some who favored the cause. He seerns to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, Oderint dum... | |
 | John Gorton - Biography - 1851 - 690 pages
...conRi^ueace, which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition dis post d him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate some who favoured the cause. He s**eme to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination ' Oderint... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 566 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty consequence, 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 Romau Emperor'« determination, 'oderint dnm metuant;' he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or modify ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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...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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaiies with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers...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... | |
 | T. S. Memes - Theology, Doctrinal - 1867 - 548 pages
...abilities gavo him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of such a martyr committing his him the wishes of ionic who favoured his cause, lie seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty consequence, 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 dummetuant;' he used no allurements... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat bis adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, aud excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the canse. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 832 pages
...abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disclaimed to conceal or modify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his renders commonly his enemies, und excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the... | |
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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... 
