 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented, that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain-glory, wrote several pieces,...several actions, which he did not assume the honour of: thodgh, at the same time, so many works of this nature have appeared, which every one has ascribed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 488 pages
...clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented, that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain-glory, wrote several pieces...been the best writer of the age in which he lived. s- This noble lord, for the great extent of his knowledge and capacity, has been often compared with... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 pages
...clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented, that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain-glory, wrote several pieces,...Lord Somers to have been the best writer of the age io which he lived. This noble lord, for the great extent of his knowledge and capacity, has been often... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 530 pages
...here it is to be lamented that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain glory, wrote several pieces, as well as performed several...been the best writer of the age in which he lived. " ' There is no question but this wonderful man will make one of the most distinguished figures in... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 pages
...optanclum magis antea quam sperandum, immo opus penitus disperatum, optime convcnit populo. " CHAP, glory, wrote several pieces, as well as performed several actions, which he did not assume the honour of." AI). 1752. Besides his collection of printed tracts*, he left behind him Lord ^ an immense mass of... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 530 pages
...foreseeing that such an observation might be made, laments that " this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain-glory, wrote several pieces,...several actions, which he did not assume the honour of." Besides his collection of printed tracts,! he left behind him an immense mass of MSS., partly composed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 480 pages
...here it is to be lamented, that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to Tain-glory, wrote several pieces as well as performed several...though at the same time so many works of this nature hare appeared, which eTeiy one has ascribed to him, that I believe no author of the greatest eminence... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1874 - 488 pages
...might be made, laments that " this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vain glory, wrote several pieces, as well as performed several actions, which he did not assume the honor of." Besides his collection of printed tracts,1 Lord Somers left behind him an immense mass of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vainglory, wrote several pieces,...several actions, which he did not assume the honour of." The critic concludes with the remark that Somers will undoubtedly make one of the most distinguished... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 386 pages
...clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented, that this extraordinary person, out of his natural aversion to vainglory, wrote several pieces...been the best writer of the age in which he lived. different. They were both impeached by a House of Commons. One of them, as he had given just occasion... | |
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His style in writing was chaste and pure, but at the same time full of spirit and politeness; and fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding of the reader, with the utmost clearness and perspicuity. And here it is to be lamented, that... 
