...Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile...temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great...

...described by Edward Gibbon as 'one of the best companions in the Kingdom' and by Edmund Burke as 'a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested'. He was an astute manager of the House of Commons and a shrewd leader of a coalition whose members were...

...Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great...

...Its equipoise was totally gone. I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile...temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great...

...choice they made of their Chancellor. ' He was,' says his great political opponent, Burke, ' a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile...infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, with a mind most disinterested.' To this eulogium of Burke, on one whom he does not hesitate to call...