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" ... of a polity. But his writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in persons less virtuous than himself, led him into great errors and misfortunes.... "
The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge - Page 109
edited by - 1861
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

1850 - 602 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in...deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled. The whole court was in a ferment with intrigues of gallantry and intrigues of ambition. The traffic...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

1849 - 606 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in...deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled." After alluding, in general terms, to many defections from his own peculiar principles into which Penn...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. Hia confidence in persons less virtuous than himself led...deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled. The whole court was in a fe-rment with intrigues of gallantry and intrigues of ambition. The traffic...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...amabant ac magnifaciabant, quidam ayersabantur ao fugiebant."— Historia Quakeriana. lib. ii. 1695. great errors and misfortunes. His enthusiasm for one...deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled. The whole court was in a ferment with intrigues of gallantry and intrigues of ambition. The traffic...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in...altogether proof against the temptations to which it waa exposed in that splendid and polite, but deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled. The...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in...great principles which he ought to have held sacred. NOT was his integrity altogether proof against the temptations to which it was exposed in that splendid...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...impelled him to violate other great principles which he ought to have held sacred. Nor was his rectitude altogether proof against the temptations to which...deeply corrupted society, with which he now mingled. The whole court was in a ferment with intrigues of gallantry and intrigues of ambition. The traffic...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in persons less virtuous than himself led him intj ordinem, qui hoc interim spatio in proccetone, in proximo, regera tonventum prsesto erant." Of...
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Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of William Penn

Thomas Clarkson - 1849 - 444 pages
...This sentence recalls us to the question at issue. Bid "his enthusiasm for one great principle impel him to violate other great principles which he ought to have held sacred ? "f Did he, in his zeal for liberty of conscience, forget the liberties of the subject, or try to...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in...principles which he ought to have held sacred. Nor was his rectitude altogether proof against the temptations to which it was exposed in that splendid and polite,...
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