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Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to Hunter - Page 494
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A dictionary of biography

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pages
...displays mach elegance and sound sense; and as a man he was deservedly beloved. " He had (says Burke) too much merit not to excite some jealousy ; too much innocence to provoke any enmity." RICARDO, DAVID, an able political economist, was horn, in 1772, in London, and entered upon a mercantile...
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A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 pages
...displays much elegance and sound sense ; and as a man he was deservedly beloved. " He had (says Burke) too much merit not to excite some jealousy , too much innocence to provoke any emnity." RICARDO, DAVID, an able political economist, was born, in 1772, in London, and entered upon...
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National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent ..., Volume 1; Volume 4

William Jerdan - 1834 - 410 pages
...and not meanly cultivated by letters ; his social virtues, in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and...felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. "HAIL! AND FAREWELL!" It is now forty-one years since the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; yet, during...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great »nd nd prejudices. hie time «in be felt with more eincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. HAIL AND FAREWELL I Sir Joshua...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and in all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and...dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to provoke some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and in all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and...dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to provoke some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can...
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The literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed a ..., Volume 1

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and...felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. " HAIL! AND FAREWELL!" By his last will, which was made on the 5th of November preceding his death,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes avarice. The possessors of family wealth, and of the distinction which attends eincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. HAIL AND FAREWELL ! Sir Joshua Reynolds gave a striking testimony...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the ...

1836 - 332 pages
...not meanly cultivated in letters — his social virInes in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and...his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and umnixed sorrow. Hail ! and farewell. BURKE. * * * * To the grandeur, the truth, and simplicity of Titian,...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and in all the habitudes mܶ , 5 q椺@ C y訖& f Xk / 4 ' 5ͳ provoke some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can...
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