 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 páginas
...continued in opposition thenceforward till his death, which happened in 1695. " He was," says Burnet, " a man of great and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, much turned to satire. . . . He was punctual in his payments and just in all private dealings; but... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 534 páginas
...continued in opposition thenceforward till his death, which happened in 1695. " He was," says Burnet, "a man of great and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, much turned to satire. ... He was punctual in his payments and just in all private dealings; but with... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 538 páginas
...that he went backward and forward and changed sides so often in politics that no one could trust him, describes him as " a man of great and ready wit, full...judgment, and a severe jest took more with him than all argument whatever." This keen wit of his, as might have been expected, made him many enemies. His playful... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1891 - 258 páginas
...in describing Lord Halifax, tells us, with thinly veiled disapprobation, that he was " a man of fine and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, but...jest took more with him than all arguments whatever." Yet this was the first statesman of his age, and one whose clear and tranquil vision penetrated so... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson - 1903 - 202 páginas
...in describing Lord Halifax, tells us, with thinly veiled disapprobation, that he was "a man of fine and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, but...jest took more with him than all arguments whatever." Yet this was the first statesman of his age, and one whose clear and tranquil vision penetrated so... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - 1906 - 440 páginas
...distinguished note was Sir George Savile raised at last to be Marquis of Halifax : he was a man of irrcat and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, but...turned to satire. His imagination was too hard for his ludgment, and a severe jest took more with him than all arguments whatever. He let his wit run much... | |
 | joel chandler harris - 1907 - 364 páginas
...in describing Lord Halifax, tells us, with thinly veiled disapprobation, that he was "a man of fine and ready wit, full of life, and very pleasant, but...jest took more with him than all arguments whatever." Yet this was the first statesman of his age, and one whose clear and tranquil vision penetrated so... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 456 páginas
...read Burnet's character of the latter to perceive the wonderful resemblance between them. Each was " a man of great and ready wit ; full of life, and very pleasant ; much turned to satire, whose liveliness of imagination was often too much for his judgment, . . .... | |
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as a man of great and ready wit ; full of life and very pleasant, but much turned to satire ; his imagination was too hard for his judgment; and a severe jest took more with him than all arguments whatever. 
