 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...being at all despised. " There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and, power of his wit, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults — that is, a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage, nn insinuating... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1892 - 934 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults—that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach—viz., a narrowness... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1897 - 726 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 700 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 362 pages
...no ' more said to extol the Excellence and Power of his Wit ' and Pleasantness of his Conversation, than that it was ' of Magnitude enough to cover a World of very great ' Faults ; that is so to cover them that they were not ' taken Notice of to his Reproach ; viz. a Narrowness of ' his... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1904 - 870 pages
...worldly interest. SMAUUDOE. There needs no more be said to extol Hie excellence and ]tow<>r of his wit, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very rat faults, that is, a narrowness in hi* nature , to ibtloicett degree, an dbjfcfnf** and want of courage,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...at all despised. " There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, thtin that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults — that is, a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage, an insinuating... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Electronic books - 1911 - 442 pages
...there he sharpened the excellence and power of that wit " of which," says Hyde, " no more need be said than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults " — a narrow nature, a lack of courage, servile flattery and insinuation ; that strange blend of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
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There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of... 
