 | Robert Patten - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1745 - 272 pages
...the greateft Zeal ima" ginable. He was not a Man of a good coram " vobis, and was a very bad, tho' frequent Speaker " in Parliament; but his great Talent lay in the *' cunning Management of his Defigns and Projects, *' in which it was hard to find him out when he " aim'd to be incognito; and... | |
 | James Hogg - Ballads, Scots - 1819 - 456 pages
...the court of England's measures with the greatest zeal imaginable. He was not a man of a good caram vobis, and was a very bad, though very frequent, speaker...himself to be a man of good sense, but bad morals. Morton.—A contemporary says of him, " This gentleman was zealous for the Revolution, and always a... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...the greateft Zeal i(K ginable. If he was not a Man of a goo cor&m "jobis, and was a very bad, thoug very frequent, Speaker in Parliament But his great Talent lay in the cunnif Management of his Defigns and Pr je&s, an which it was hard to find hi our^ when he aimed to... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1884 - 538 pages
...his vomit, and promoted all the Court of England's measures with the greatest zeal imaginable. . . . His great talent lay in the cunning management of his designs and projects,, in which it was bard to find him out." 41 A great and sustained effort was made in many parts of the kingdom to arouse... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1889 - 564 pages
...majesty King George.' Lockout of Carnwatli, who had abundant opportunities of knowing Mar, states that his ' great talent lay in the cunning management of...his designs and projects, in which it was hard to fimi him out when he desired to be incognito; and thus he showed himself to be a man of good sense... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1895 - 484 pages
...his vomit, and promoted all the Court of England's measures with the greatest zeal imaginable. . . . His great talent lay in the cunning management of...and projects, in which it was hard to find him out." 41 A great and sustained effort was made in many parts of the kingdom to arouse popular feeling and... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1895 - 486 pages
...his vomit, and promoted all the Court of England's measures with the greatest zeal imaginable. - . - His great talent lay in the cunning management of...projects, in which it was hard to find him out.” 41 A great and sustained effort was made in many parts of the kingdom to arouse popular feeling and... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1896 - 578 pages
...Characters, p. 203. NEW PARLIAMENT AND ACT OF SECURITY (1/03). 103 merit," but an adept in party tactics, "in which it was hard to find him out when he aimed to be incognito ".* Lord Boyle, "a fat, fair man, about forty years old," presently to be exalted to the dignity of... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1896 - 556 pages
...Farlia* Macky's Characters, p. 191. t Lockliart Papers, I., p. 95. ment," but an adept in party tactics, ''in which it was hard to find him out when he aimed to be incognito ".* Lord Boyle, "a fat, fair man, about forty years old," presently to be exalted to the dignity of... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1907 - 552 pages
...He " is a very bad, though a very frequent, speaker in Parliamerit,"but an adept in party tactics, " in which it was hard to find him out when he aimed to be incognito".* Lord Boyle, "a fat, fair man, about forty years old," presently to be exalted to the dignity of earl... | |
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vobis, and was a very bad though very frequent speaker in Parliament; but his great talent lay in the cunning management of his designs and projects, in which it was hard to find him out, when he aimed to be incognito ; and thus he shewed himself to be... 