 A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps,...  The United Service Magazine - Page 2251857Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates-1— an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...«-a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 486 pages
...decisive; a will, despotic in its dictates; an energy that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this work! ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every... | |
 | Cabinet album - English literature - 1830 - 414 pages
...: a will, despotic, in its dictates ; an energy that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character, the most eitraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. — Flung... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. IT-- Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Orators - 1833 - 558 pages
...conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or felL Flung into life, in the midst of a Revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...; a will despotick in its dictates ; an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. 3. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of...annals of this world ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged... | |
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