| Parliament proc - 1787 - 590 pages
...mixture of chara&er feemed by fome unaccountable, bat inherent quality, to be appropriated, though in in inferior degrees, to every thing that concerned...learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was fomething in the firft frame and conftitution of the Company, which extended the fordid principles... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honorable and learned gentleman (Mr. DUNDAS] remark, that there was something in the first frame and... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 422 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language ; giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honorable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1816 - 744 pages
...consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the minds's taste as much as his actions excited the soul's abhorrence. Indeed, this mixture of character seemed by some an unaccountable, but inherent quality, to be appropriated, though in inferior degrees, to every thing... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language ; giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...degrees, to every thing that concerned his employers. He e remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Duudas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and constitution of the Company, which... | |
| Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's taste, as much as his actions excited tlie soul's abhorrence. Indeed this mixture of character seemed, by some unaccountable but inherent... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1828 - 302 pages
...giving mock consequence to low cavils , and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his iompositions disgusted the mind's taste , as much as his actions...appropriated , though in inferior degrees , to every ihing that concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honorable and learned gentleman... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...mixture of character seemed by some unaccountable, hut inherent quality, to be appropriated, though in inferior degrees, to every thing that concerned... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils, and uttering quibbles in heroics ; so that his compositions disgusted the mind's...inferior degrees, to every thing that concerned his employore. He remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr Dundas) remark, that... | |
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