 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 656 pages
...effect.' 70. 8. Compare Burke, Speech on American Taxation (of Lord Grenville), ' He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure which he was to enjoy.' The same thought recurs, a little exaggerated, in the ' Letter to... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...Work for its own sake was the one great charm of his life. " He took public business," said Burke, "not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy, and seemed to Lave no delight out of the House, except in such things as... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy; and he seemed to have no delight out of this house, except in such things... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1890 - 482 pages
...paid a remarkable tribute to Grenville's devotion to parliamentary work. ' He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this house, except in such things... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1890 - 790 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of the House, except in such things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application 10 undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1892 - 294 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 400 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...stout and resolute heart he had an application, undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil but as a pleasure he was to enjoy. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him ,his ambition was of a noble... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
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With a masculine understanding," and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy... 
