 All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him, as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman ; as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest and...  The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée - Sida 391835Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 546 sidor
...represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him, the other... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 540 sidor
...statesman ; as a masterly orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest andmost extensive views; as a man, who dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him, the other... | |
 | 1808 - 540 sidor
...represent him as the moft incorrupt lawyer and the honestest statesman ; as a mafter-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." His eloquence was often exerted in stemming the tide of faction, and in promoting the real interests... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1809 - 860 sidor
...represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest stateman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote for him, the other... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 sidor
...represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer and the honestest statesman ; as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...extensive views ; as a man who dispensed blessings by his fife, and planned them for posterity." His eloquence was often exerted in stemming the tide of faction,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1811 - 490 sidor
...matter orator, a genius of the finest taste, and a patriot of the noblest and most extensive views ; a man who " dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parte and learning, and was the first who redeemed Milton'» <(... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 756 sidor
...represent* him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman; as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift : the one wrote from him; the other... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 sidor
...represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parts and learning, and particularly of Mr. Addison, who has drawn... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 sidor
...represent him, as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest and most extensive views ; as a ma;i, who dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 sidor
...represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master-orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest...blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity." He was a very great patron of men of parts and learning, and particularly of Mr: Addison, who has drawn... | |
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