| Books - 1759 - 606 pages
...that he would have been * thought to have been bred in the beft courts, but that his ' good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in ' communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding. His * ftile in all his writings feems harfh and fometimes obfcure j * which is not wholly to be imputed... | |
| Several Hands - 1759 - 602 pages
...fuch, that he would have been thought to have been bred 'in the beft courts, but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding. His ftile in all his writings feems harm and fometimes obfcure ; which is hot wholly'to be imputed to the... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1760 - 536 pages
...fuch, that He would have been thought to have been bred in the beft Courts, but that his good Nature, Charity, and Delight in doing good, and in communicating all He knew, exceeded that Breeding : His Stile in all his Writings feems harfh and fometimes obfcure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to... | |
| Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1761 - 286 pages
...fuch, that He would have been thought to have been bred in the beft Courts, but that his good Nature, Charity, and Delight in doing good, and in communicating all He knew, exceeded that Breeding : His Stile in all his Writings feems harfh and fometimes obfcure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1761 - 302 pages
...fuch, that He would have been thought to have been bred in the beft Courts, but that his good Nature, Charity, and Delight in doing good, and in communicating all He knew, exceeded that Breeding : His Stile in all his Writings feems harm and fometimes obfcure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to the... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...fpent an hour but in reading " and writing ; yet his humanity, courtefy, and affability " was fuch, that he would have been thought to have " been bred...communicating " all he knew, exceeded that breeding. His ftile in all his " writings feems harfli, and fometimes obfcure ; which is " not wholly to be imputed... | |
| History - 1762 - 578 pages
...charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all be knew, exceeded that breeding. His ftile in all his writings feems harfh and fometimes obfcure...which is not wholly to be imputed to the abftrufe fubjeels of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men ; but to a little undervaluing... | |
| History - 1802 - 522 pages
...such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, , but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in- communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding. His stile in all his writings seems harsh, and sometimes obscure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to... | |
| Hannah Adams - Apologetics - 1804 - 398 pages
...fuch, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the beft courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding. If he had fome infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...courtesy, and afl'ability, was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good-nature, charity, and delight...communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding. His style in all his writings seems harsh, and sometimes obscure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to... | |
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