 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 pages
...most formidable debaters. Again to quote Clarendon's estimate of the famous Puritan chieftain : " He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out...the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp. . . . the eyes of all men were fixed upon him as their patrice pater... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 pages
...His talents for business were as remarkable as his talents for debate. " He was," says Clarendon, " of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or...the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp." Yet it was rather to his moral than to his intellectual qualities... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1901 - 376 pages
...person." His talents for business were as remarkable as his talents for debate. " He was," says Clarendon, "of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out...the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp." Yet it was rather to his moral than to his intellectual qualities... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired,...the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 pages
...toil," said even Louis XIV., " that kings govern." When Clarendon described Hampden, he spoke of him as "of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out...and of a personal courage equal to his best parts." While in the midst of his laborious though self-imposed duties, Hampden, on one occasion, wrote to... | |
 | 1883 - 828 pages
...sitting for both the portraits Clarendon has drawn of Hampden and Falkland. Of the first, he says : " Who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired...wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be improved on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; " and... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out,...the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 pages
...His talents for business were as remarkable as his talents for debate. ' He was,' says Clarendon, ' of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or...the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp.' Yet it was rather to his moral than to his intellectual qualities... | |
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He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts... 
