 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
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...a will despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expo lii ion, and a conscience pliable,to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this...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... | |
 | Henry Marlin Soper - Readers - 1885 - 136 pages
...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...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... | |
 | W. Harlan Cord - Europe - 1885 - 564 pages
...that, " he was wrapt in the solitude of his own originality, and was the most extraordinary character, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell, the man without a model, and without a shadow!" These relics of the First Consul are unquestionably... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1886 - 426 pages
...decisive ; a will despotic iu its dictates; an energy that distanced expedition and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest marked the outline of this...annals of this world ever rose or reigned or fell. 2. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | James Hunter - World history - 1887 - 496 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...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. " Such a medley of contradiction, and, at the same time, such an individual consistency, were never... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Readers - 1888 - 456 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 tuu midst of a revolution that quickened exery energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1888 - 430 pages
...dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of mterest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,...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 acknowledge... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 472 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 this extraordinary character — the mont extraordinary, perliaps, that, in the annals of this world, over rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung... | |
 | Literature - 1897 - 328 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...perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people... | |
 | Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...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...annals of this world ever rose, or reigned, or fell. 2. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge... | |
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