 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 504 pagina’s
...makes many enemies, by setting an ill-natured example of living, which they are not inclined to follow. His indifference for preferment, his contempt not...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself into the lowest and most painful duties of his calling, are such unprelatical qualities, that, let... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pagina’s
...occasion to censure him. After all, he was a man of great abilities, of much openness and frankness of nature, of much courtesy and benevolence, indefatigable...indifference for preferment, his contempt not only of splendor, but of all unnecessary plenty ; his degrading himself to the lowest and most painful duties... | |
 | François Guizot - 1851 - 272 pagina’s
...makes many enemies, by setting an ill-natured example of living which they are not inclined to follow. His indifference for preferment, his contempt not...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself unto the lowest and most painful duties of his calling, are such unprelatical qualities, that, let... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1866 - 542 pagina’s
...makes many enemies, by setting an ill-natured example of living which they are not inclined to follow. His indifference for preferment, his contempt not...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself unto the lowest and most painful duties of his calling, are such unprelatical qualities, that, let... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...occasion to censure him. After all, he was a man of great abilities, of much openness and frankness of nature, of much courtesy and benevolence, indefatigable...and most painful duties of his calling ; are such unprelatical qualities, that let him be never so orthodox in other things, in these he must be a dissenter."... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...occasion to censure him. After all, he was a man of great abilities, of much openness and frankness of nature, of much courtesy and benevolence, indefatigable...lowest and most painful duties of his calling; are such unprelatical qualities, that let him be never so orthodo* in other things, in these he must be a dissenter."... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...occasion to censure him. After all, he was a man of great abilities, of much openness and frankness of nature, of much courtesy and benevolence, indefatigable...and most painful duties of his calling ; are such unprelatical qualities, that let him be never so orthodox in other things, in these he must be a dissenter."... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1898 - 608 pagina’s
...makes many enemies, by setting an illnatured example of living, which they are not inclined to follow. His indifference for preferment, his contempt not...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself into the lowest and most painful duties of his calling,1 are such unprelatical qualities, that, let... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 664 pagina’s
...setting an ill-natured example of " living which they are not inclined to follow. Hisindiffer" ence for preferment, his contempt not only of splendour,...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself into " the lowest and most painful duties of his calling, are such " unprelatical qualities, that,... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 662 pagina’s
...setting an ill-natured example of " living which they are not inclined to follow. His indiffer" ence for preferment, his contempt not only of splendour,...but of all unnecessary plenty, his degrading himself into " the lowest and most painful duties of his calling, are such " unprelatical qualities, that,... | |
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His character is finely drawn by the Marquis of Halifax : one paragraph of which is too remarkable to be omitted : " His indifference for preferment ; his contempt not only of splendour, but of all unnecessary plenty; his degrading himself... 
