 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Europe - 1752 - 332 pages
...fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the...that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honor. But befides this, the obfervation I have made comes into my fubject, fince it ferves to point... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Europe - 1752 - 622 pages
...to that great man, whofe faults 1 knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the gneateft general and as the greateft minifter that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honor. \ But befides this, the obfervation I have made comes into my fubjcct, fince it ferves to point... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...I take " with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great " man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and *' whofe memory, as...minifter, that our country or perhaps any other has pro" duced, I honor." But whatever might be his regard for the duke of Marlborough at the time we are... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1768 - 376 pages
...to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whole virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greatefl general, and as the greateft minifter that our country or perhaps any other hae -produced, I honour. But befides this, the obfervation I have made comes into my fubject, fince... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Europe - 1777 - 382 pages
...cefs. I take with -rpleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the...country or perhaps any other has produced, I honour. But befides this, the obfervation I have made comes into my fubjec~t, fince it ferves to point out... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1793 - 570 pages
...take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juflice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whole virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the greateft rainifter that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honor. But belides this, the obfervatlon... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 430 pages
...take with pleafure this opportunity of doing " juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, Y z " whofe " whofe virtues I admired, and whofe memory,...any propofal that was made to him : as, " Will your " Graee befiege Lifle ?" " Oh, filly."—" Will " you then befiege Ypres ?" "No! —filly, " filly."... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 536 pages
...of " doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults " I knew, whofe virtues I admired, and vvhofif " memory, as the greateft General, and as the " greateft...honour." The Duke got the nick-name of " Silly'* from his tifing that word when he did not like any prdpofal that was made to him : as, " Will ** your Grace... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...fuccefs. I take, with pleafure, this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general, and as the greateft minuter, that our country, or perhaps any other, has produced, I honour." The other teftimony to the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...whose virtues I admired ; and whose memory, ая the greatest general, and as the greatest minister, that our country, or perhaps any other, has produced, I honour." The other testimony to the duke's accomplishments is by the earl of Chesterfield, in hie Letters to his... | |
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... was not then an actor, but abettor, however, of their action, were crowned with the most triumphant success. I take, with pleasure, this opportunity of doing justice to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired; and whose memory,... 
