 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...selections, therefore, shall consist entirely of such instances. Character of Hampden* Mr. Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be,...that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman 6f a good extraction, and a fair fortune ; who, from a life of great pleasure and licence,"... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...selections, therefore, shall consist entirely of such instances. • , Character of Hampdcn. Mi\ Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be,...most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address afad insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid... | |
 | Max Wilhelm Meyer - 1809 - 786 pages
...great ease to the trouble, charge, and travail of tiie country; so it giveth the peo* "Mr. Hampdcii was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be,...greatest address and insinuation to bring any thing to pas;, which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the deijgn deepest. He was a gentleman... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...character of him : " Mr. Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, ( than Mr. Pym) and it may be <u the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address...thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that lime, and who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of a good extraction, and a fair fortune,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...when the prince made a stand, all the officers were of opinion to stay till their body came up, and he alone persuaded and prevailed with them to advance...most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address aud insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...was, perhaps, one of the most extraordinary men that ever lived ; and is thus delineated by the nobla historian already quoted. " He was a man of much greater...desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest.—He was not a man of many words, and rarely began the discourse, or made the first entrance... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...to be paid out of the national revenues for the use of his family. " Mr. Hampden,' says Clarendon, ' was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be,...deepest. He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed ; but a very weighty... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...subjoined; nor can either be read without ad vantage. " He was," says lord Clarendon, " a man of great cunning, and, it may be, of the most discerning spirit;...that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was of that rare affahility and temper in debate, and of that seeming humility and submission of judgment,... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 782 pages
...yourselves for your several circuits. Circuits are for thf sevviceof the k ing and the good * "Mr.Hampdcii was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be, of the most discerning spirit, anil of the greatest address anil ins'iiiua. tion to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...leading men were, and wholly devoted to the Earl of Bedford, who had nothing of that spirit. Mr. Hambden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of...that time, and who laid the design deepest. He was a gentleman of good extraction and a fair fortune, who, from a life of great pleasure and licence,... | |
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Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest. 
