 | 1840 - 662 pàgines
...' has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge.' He adds, ' a thorough profligate in principle as in practice ;...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted.' This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated, and the historian, believing him really to confess his political... | |
 | 1840 - 612 pàgines
...believing him really to confess his political profligacy, is perhaps in error also, — ' he told us that in this time of public ' dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.' Possibly this was little more than a variety of his well-known saying to some one who was fawning on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pàgines
...better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune. Upon this principle he has connected himself closely with Lord Temple and Mr. Put, commenced a public adversary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pàgines
...better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension, he was resolved to make his fortune. Upon this principle he has connected himself closely with Lord Temple and Mr. Pitt, commenced a public adversary... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 516 pàgines
...companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune. This proved a very debauched day : we drank a good deal, both after dinner and supper; and when at... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 548 pàgines
...companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune. This proved a very debauched day : we drank a good deal, both after dinner and supper; and when at... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - 1838 - 532 pàgines
...companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune. This proved a very debauched day : we drank a good deal, both after dinner and supper; and when at... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 498 pàgines
...was assailed ; they were determined that the spleen of the court should not overwhelm a subpractice; his life stained with every vice, and his conversation...dissension, he was resolved to make his fortune." ject ; and possibly they felt some gratitude for a person whose fate it was to have done something,... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 540 pàgines
...was assailed ; they were determined that the spleen of the court should not overwhelm a subpractice; his life stained with every vice, and his conversation...dissension, he was resolved to make his fortune." ject ; and possibly they felt some gratitude for a person whose fate it was to have done something,... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 494 pàgines
...was assailed ; they were determined that the spleen of the court should not overwhelm a subpractice ; his life stained with every vice, and his conversation...dissension, he was resolved to make his fortune." ject ; and possibly they felt some gratitude for a person whose fate it was to have done something,... | |
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... thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice. and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that... 
