 ... violence, cruelty, profusion, rapacity, injustice, obstinacy, arrogance, bigotry, presumption, caprice : but neither was he subject to all these vices in the most extreme degree, nor was he at intervals altogether destitute of virtue : he was sincere,...  Pictures of Sporting Life and Character - Page 71by Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1860Full view - About this book
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 482 pages
...delineate this prince's character, would be to mix the most discordant shades in the same picture. He was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable, at least, of a temporary attachment and friendship; yet a catalogue of his crimes would embrace many of the worst qua/lities... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 514 pages
...all these vices in the most extreme degree, nor was he at intervals altogether destitute of virtue : He was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable...at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. In this respect he was unfortfenate, that the incidents of his reign served to display his faults in... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...all these vices in the most extrejne degree, nor was he at intervals altogether devoid of virtues. He was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable...at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. In this respect he was unfortunate, that the incidents of 1 is times served to display his faults in... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...to all these vices in the most extreme degree, nor was he at intervals altogether devoid ot virtues. He was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable...at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. It may seem a little extraordinary, that notwithstanding his cruelty, his extortion, his violence,... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 pages
...over themselves, and at their own expence. at intervals altogether destitute of virtue: He was CHAP. sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. In this respect he was unfortunate, that the incidents of his reign served to display his faults in... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1824 - 568 pages
...violence, cruelly, profusion, rapacity, injustice, obstinacy, arrogance, bigotry, and presumption ; yet, he was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable,...at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. Notwithstanding his cruelty and extortion, he seems to have possessed to the last, in some degree,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...to all these vices in the most extreme degree, nor was he at intervals altogether devoid of virtues. interests must natur In this respect he was unfortunate, that the incidents of his times served to display his faults in... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 430 pages
...the beautiful diamond Hume, that at intervals this prince was not altogether destitute of virtue ; that he was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable,...at least, of a temporary friendship and attachment. and vessel in which the solitary damsel is tossed ; but principally for the beautiful interpretation... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1827 - 546 pages
...violence, cruelty, profusion, rapacity, injustice, obstinacy, arrogance, bigotry, and presumption ; yet, he was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable,...at least, of a temporary friendship and attachment. Notwithstanding his cruelty and extortion, he seems to have possessed to the last, in some degree,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 420 pages
...all these vices in the most extreme degree, nor was he at intervals altogether destitute of virtue : he was sincere, open, gallant, liberal, and capable...at least of a temporary friendship and attachment. In this respect he was unfortunate, that the incidents of his reign served to display his faults in... | |
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