 His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had...  The Oxford review; or, Literary censor - Stran 280Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent...hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him ; CHAP. ix. and to those donations 'which real distress has a 1799. right to claim from opulence. He... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent...dazzles and frequently imposes on the understanding. More solid than brilliant, judgment rather than genius constituted the most prominent feature of his... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent...dazzles and frequently imposes on the understanding. Afore solid than brilliant, judgment rather than genius constituted the most prominent feature of his... | |
 | Edmund Bellchambers - 1835 - 426 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to bénéficiai though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent...real distress has a right to claim from opulence. Ho made no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, or to that wit which dazzles and frequently... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent...dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding. More solid than brilliant, judgment, rather than genius, constituted the most prominent feature of... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 strani
...remained, therefore, competent to that expensive establishment, which his reputation, added to his hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon...dazzles and frequently imposes on the understanding. More solid than brilliant, judgment rather than genius constituted the most prominent feature of his... | |
 | United States. President - 1846 - 766 strani
...They remained, therefore, competent to that extensive establishment which his reputation, added to an hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon...real distress has a right to claim from opulence. " In his civil administration, as in his military career, were exhibited ample and repeated proofs... | |
 | 1848 - 544 strani
...establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him; ad to those donations which real distress has a right...dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding. More solid than brilliant, judgment, rather than genius, constituted the most prominent feature of... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 strani
...were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent...real distress has a right to claim from opulence. He ii^ade no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, or to that wit which dazzles and frequently... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 strani
...They remained, therefore, competent to that extensive establishment which his reputation, added to an hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon...real distress has a right to claim from opulence. " In his civil administration, as in his military career, were exhibited ample and repeated proofs... | |
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