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The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 257
by Samuel Johnson - 1816
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Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...-£¡¡1 to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than tliat EL. reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage...
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Reviews, Essays, and Poems

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 pages
...excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude euough , tho lowest degree, an abjectncss and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English ...

Charles John Smith - 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...
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Francis Bacon and His Secret Society: An Attempt to Collect and Unite the ...

Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 pages
...his fault was meanness of spirit. The mind of Waller coincided with that of Bacon ... a narrowness to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking. ... Sir Anthony Weldon ... is likely enough to have exaggerated the meanness of Bacon. " (Macaulay....
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Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pages
...: "There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of ught to press on the people religious instruction, however sound, in such a manner, a faults—that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach—viz., a narrowness...
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Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitucie naturecould be contented with. . . . It had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most offended...
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Social Life Under the Stuarts

Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 350 pages
...Weight. There needs be no ' more said to extol the Excellence and Power of his Wit ' and Pleasantness of his Conversation, than that it was ' of Magnitude...taken Notice of to his Reproach ; viz. a Narrowness of ' his Nature to the lowest Degree ; an Abjectness and ' Want of Courage to support him in any virtuous...
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Social Life Under the Stuarts

Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 362 pages
...that is so to cover them that they were not ' taken Notice of to his Reproach ; viz. a Narrowness of ' his Nature to the lowest Degree ; an Abjectness and ' Want of Courage to support him in any virtuous Under' taking ; an Insinuation and servile Flattery to the ' Height the vainest and most imperious...
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copius Illustrations ...

George Crabb - 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,...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Languare

Charles John Smith - 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...
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