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Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political: As Connected with ... - Page 50
by John Nicholls - 1822
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Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political: As Connected with ...

John Nicholls - 1822 - 264 pages
...where he can reasonably hope to maintain himself. " Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his. prevailing passions. " In the midst of prosperity and apparent...other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution ; he is at the very perfection of health when his fever is at the greatest height. " His character...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 15; Volume 33

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 pages
...where be can reasonably hope to maintain himself. • Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions. ' In the midst of prosperity and apparent...and destroy any other man, is perfectly agreeable to hit constitution : he is at the very perfection of health, when his fever is at the greatest height....
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The British review and London critical journal

1821 - 536 pages
...thirty-fifth year of ministerial longevity; has been much abused, much flattered, and still more ridiculed." " In the midst of prosperity and apparent happiness,...constant ferment, which would wear out and destroy any dther man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution: he is at the verv perfection of health, when...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...passions. ' lu the midst of prosperity and apparent happiness, the slightest disappointment appointment or any imaginary evil, will, in a moment, make him...other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution : he is at the very perfection of health, when his fever is at the greatest height. ' His character...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 25

1821 - 604 pages
...where he can reasonably hope to maintain himself. ' Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions. ' In the midst of prosperity and apparent happiness, the slightest disappointment appointment or any imaginary evil, will, in a moment, make him miserable : his mind can never be composed...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...where he can reasonably hope to maintain himself. ' Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions. ' In the midst of prosperity and apparent happiness, the slightest disappointment appointment or any imaginary evil, will, in a moment, make him miserable : his mind can never be composed...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 4

1822 - 524 pages
...the Duke of Newcastle, of political celebrity.] " Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions. In the midst of prosperity and apparent...other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution; he is at the very perfection of health when his fever is at the greatest height. His character is full...
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Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political: As Connected with ...

John Nicholls - 1822 - 684 pages
...After Granville's defeat, the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Felham became joint ministers; here he seems to have reached the highest degree of power where...will, in a moment, make him miserable; his mind can sever be composed; his spirits are always agitated; yet this constant ferment, which would wear out...
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Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political: As Connected with ...

John Nicholls - 1822 - 310 pages
..."Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his. prevailing passions. " In the midst of prosperity and appa~ rent happiness, the slightest disappointment, or any imaginary...other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution; he is at the very perfection of health when his fever is at the greatest height. " His character is...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 5

Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...where he can reasonably hope to maintain himself. Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions. In the midst of prosperity and apparent...other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution : he is at the very perfection of health when his fever is at the greatest height. His character is...
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