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" ... triumphant fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the greateft minifter that our country or perhaps any other... "
Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two ... - Page 229
by William Seward - 1795
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Letters on the Study and Use of History

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1752 - 500 pages
...then an actor, but abettor however of their action, were crowned with the moft triumphant fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the greateft minifter that...
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Letters on the Study and Use of History

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1752 - 622 pages
...then an actor, but abettor however of their action, were crowned with the moft triumphant fuccefs. \ I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults 1 knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the gneateft general and as the greateft minifter...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 10

New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...then an a£tor, but abettor however of their aflion, " were crowned with the moft triumphant fuccefs. I take " with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great " man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and *' whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the greateft *' minifter,...
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The Misscellaneous [sic] Works of the Right Honourable Henry St ..., Volume 1

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 pages
...then an actor, but abettor however of their action, were crowned with the mofl triumphant fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whole virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greatefl general, and as the greateft minifter that...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

1781 - 800 pages
...actor, but abater however of thtir action, were crowned witli the molt triumpliant fuccefs. I tjkc with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whole memory, as the preatelt general and as. the greatcft minifter,...
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Letters on the Study and Use of History

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1777 - 382 pages
...however, of their action, were were crowned with the moil triumphant fuo cefs. I take with -rpleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired ; and whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the greateft minifter that...
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Letters on the Study and Use of History

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1788 - 312 pages
...then an actor, but abettor however of their action, were crowned with the moft. triumphant fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whole faults I knew, whofe virtues I admired; and whofe memory, as the greateft general and as the...
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Anecdotes of Some Distingushed Persons: Chiefly of the Present and ..., Volume 2

William Seward - 1796 - 430 pages
...of you. " He was fo great a man that I have entirely for" gotten all his failings." Lord Bolingbroke with the fame dignity of mind, late in life, gave an equal teftimonyin print to the merit of this great man. In the Eighth Letter on the Study of Hiftory he fpeaks...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ...

William Seward - 1798 - 536 pages
...and he was fo great " an^an-that^I have entirely forgotten all his ** failings." ., 4. Bolingbroke, -with. the- fame dignity of mind, late in life» gave...Hiftory, he fpeaks of him in the following manner : • . . t, « " I take with pleafure this opportunity of " doing juftice to that great man, whofe...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1798 - 432 pages
...then an aftor, but abettor however of their aftion, were crowned with the moft triumphant fuccefs. I take with pleafure this opportunity of doing juftice to that great man, whofe faults 1 knew, whofe virtues I admired, and whofe memory, as the greateft general general and as the greateft...
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