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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 254
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1866 - 432 pages
...There needs no 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, во to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ..., Volume 2

David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...with all his good qualities — to wit, " a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree," and his " abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking " — were subsequent discoveries.1 SIR WILLIAM WALLER, KKT. (Andover), cetat. 43. Possibly a relative...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1873 - 950 pages
...There needs no 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...taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness m his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous...
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 668 pages
...There needs no 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...narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectncss and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - Essay on Bacon - 1881 - 438 pages
...There needs no 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 the lowest degree, — an abjectness and want of coinage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, — an insinuation and servile flattery to the...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - Essay on Bacon - 1881 - 440 pages
...There needs no 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...
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Evenings with reviewer; or, A free and particular examination of ..., Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 464 pages
...There needs no 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 groat faults,—that is, BO to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach,— viz....
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Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 1084 pages
...excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magni tude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were hot taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness...
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious ...

George Crabb - English language - 1882 - 876 pages
...worldly interest. SMAULIDGE. There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power uf his wit, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, a narrowness in his natnre to the loictnt decree, an ttbjfctnesa and want of courage, an insinuating...
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious ...

George Crabb - English language - 1882 - 876 pages
...SMALKIDGE. There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, than that it WHS of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, a narrowness in his nature to the fittrt-Mt degree, an ubjecfn*1** and want of couruge, aa insinuating...
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