 He has' spirit, but not of the active kind; and does not want resolution but it is mixed with too much obstinacy. He has great command of his passions, and will seldom do wrong, except when he mistakes wrong for right...  George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolutionavtor: Robert Leckie - 2010 - 690 straniPredogled ni na voljo - O knjigi
 | 1867 - 636 strani
...strictly honest, but wants that frank and open behaviour which makes honesty appear amiable. . . . He has spirit, but not of the active kind, and does...will be difficult to undeceive him, because he is unusually indolent and has strong prejudices. . . . Whenever he is displeased his anger does not break... | |
 | 1821 - 772 strani
...not of the most charitable sort ; he has rather too much attention to the sins of his neighbour. " He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...is uncommonly indolent, and has strong prejudices. " His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous, was he eager in the... | |
 | 1821 - 604 strani
...not of the most charitable sort ; he has rather too much attention to the sins of his neighbour. ' He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...is uncommonly indolent, and has strong prejudices. ' His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous, was he eager in the... | |
 | 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 strani
...is not of the most charitable sort; he has rather too much attention to the sins of his neighbour. ' He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...is uncommonly indolent, and has strong prejudices. ' His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous, was he eager in the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 strani
...equable, but liable to fits of sullcnness ; his integrity strict ; and his religion free from hypocrisy. * He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...undeceive him, because he is uncommonly indolent, and bas strong prejudices.' By indolence, his Lordship must have meant exclusively, indisposition (o mental... | |
 | 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 strani
...attention to the sins of his neighbour. • ' He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and docs not want resolution, but it is mixed with too much...is uncommonly indolent, and has strong prejudices. ' His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous, was he eager in the... | |
 | Earl James Waldegrave Waldegrave - 1821 - 208 strani
...is not of the most charitable sort; he has rather too much attention to the sins of his neighbour. He has spirit, but not of the active kind; and does...obstinacy. He has great command of his passions, and will MEMOIRS, seldom do wrong, except when he mistakes wrong for 1758. right; but as often as this shall... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 strani
...not of the most charitable sort ; he has rather too much attention to the sins of his neighbour. " He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...resolution, but it is mixed with too much obstinacy. " He lias great command of his passions, and will seldom do wrong, except when he mistakes wrong for right... | |
 | 1821 - 770 strani
...will be difficult to undeceive him, because he is uncommonly indolent, and has strong prejudices. " He has spirit, but not of the active kind ; and does...resolution, but it is mixed with too much obstinacy. " His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous, was he eager in the... | |
 | 1821 - 702 strani
...narrator. " He is strictly honest," says Lord Waldegrave, " his religion is free from all hypocrisy ; he has great command of his passions, and will seldom do wrong except when he mistakes wrong for right—he has spirit—and does not for resolution." How caq these qualities be predicated of 166... | |
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