 | 1839 - 560 pages
...magnanimous—nothing open—nothing direct in his measures or in his mind. On the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or was deceived, and was by turns a Dionysius and aScapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - 588 pages
...— nothing open — nothing direct in his measures or in his mind ; — on the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | George Atkinson - 1849 - 334 pages
...died (having kept true to his principle) Vicar of Bray — died Bishop of Oxford. " In other words, his course was an eternal deviation from rectitude....swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of his ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity*." That Hugh Curwen was Westmorland-born... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...magnanimous, nothing open, nothing direct in his measures or in his mind ; on the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was, by turns, a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...magnanimous, nothing open, nothing direct in his measures or in his mind ; on the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was, by turns, a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 pages
...magnanimous — nothing open — nothing direct in his measures, or in his mind. On the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...nothing magnanimous, nothing open, nothing direct in his measures or his mind. On the contrary, he pursued the worst objects by the worst means. His course was an eternal deviation from rectitude. At one time he tyrannized over the will, and at another time deluded the understanding. He was by turns... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...— nothing open — nothing direct in his measures or in his mind ; — on the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | William Earle - 1859 - 374 pages
...magnanimous, nothing open, nothing direct in his measures, or in his mind. On the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He either tyrannized or deceived, and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity... | |
 | William Earle - 1859 - 706 pages
...magnanimous, nothing open, nothing direct in his measures, or in his mind. On the contrary, he had too often pursued the worst objects by the worst means....course was an eternal deviation from rectitude. He tyrannized or deceived, and was by turns nysius and a Scapin. As well might the w obliquity of the... | |
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He either tyrannised or deceived, and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings' ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine... 
