 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1707 - 446 pages
...good part in the greateft Affairs, but the unfitted Mm alive to conduct them, having an Ambition, end Vanity Superior to all his other Parts, and a Confidence in himfelf, which fbmetimes intoxicated, and tranfported, and expofed hhn. -"He had from his Youth, -by the difobligations... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1717 - 468 pages
...Difcourfe : He was equal to a very good part in the greateft Affairs, but the unfitted Man alive to condudt them, having an Ambition, and Vanity Superior to all his other Parts, and a Confidence in himfelr, which fometimes intoxicated, and tranfported, and expofed him. He had from his Youth, by the... | |
 | Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1717 - 456 pages
...Difcourfe : He was equal to a very good part in the greateft Affairs, but the unhtteft Man alive to conduit them, having an Ambition, and Vanity Superior to all his other Parts, and a Confidence m himfeli, which fometimes intoxicated, and tranfported, and expoied him. He had from his Youth, by... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1793 - 268 pages
...subject for a discourse: he was equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs, but the unfit test man alive to conduct them, having an ambition and...superior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himself, which sometimes intoxicated, transported, and exposed him. He had from his youth, by the disobligations... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1807 - 698 pages
...greateft affairs, but the unfitteft man alive to conduct them, having an ambition and vanity fuperior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himfelf,...difobligations his family had undergone from the Duke of Buckingham, and the great men who fucceeded him, and fome fharp reprehenfion himfelf had met with,... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 754 pages
...subject for u discourse : lie was equ^l to a very good part in the ereatest affaire, but the untittest man alive to conduct them, having an ambition, and vanity superior to all hit other part', and a confidence in himic!f, which sometimes intoxicated, nnd transported, and exposed... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 pages
...subject for a discourse. He was equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs, but the unlit test man alive to conduct them, having an ambition and...superior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himself, which sometimes intoxicated, transported, and exposed him. He had, from his youth, by the... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 632 pages
...was equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs,z but the unfittest man alive to conduct them,0 having an ambition and vanity superior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himself, h which sometimes intoxicated, and transported, and exposed him. He had from his youth, by... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 628 pages
...was equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs,1 but the unfittest man alive to conduct them,a having an ambition and vanity superior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himself,h which sometimes intoxicated, and transported, and exposed him. He had from his youth, by... | |
 | George James Welbore Agar Ellis (Baron Dover.), George Agar Ellis Baron Dover - 1827 - 198 pages
...subject for a discourse : he was equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs, but the unfittest man alive to conduct them, having an ambition and...superior to all his other parts, and a confidence peculiar to himself, which sometimes intoxicated, and transported, and exposed him." Burnet says of... | |
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... was equal to a very good part in the greatest affair, but the unfittest man alive to conduct it, having an ambition and vanity superior to all his other parts, and a confidence peculiar to himself, which sometimes intoxicated, and transported, and... 
