| 1808 - 546 páginas
...genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed, all affected plainness, and...and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness ; and marked him for i\ traitor, and... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 páginas
...little. Nothing simple, nothing unmixed ; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. He is an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities. with nothing great but his crimes, and those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denote his profligacy and his meanness,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 páginas
...little. Nothing simple, nothing unmixed ; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. He is an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denote his profligacy and his meanness,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 páginas
...little. Nothing simple, nothing unmixed ; all affected plainness, and actual dis* simulation. He was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once denoted his profligacy and his meanness,... | |
| David Hume - 1811 - 506 páginas
...little ; nothing simple, nothing "unmixed; all affected plainness and actual dissimula" tion : he was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory " qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those " contrasted by the littleness of his motives ; which at once " denoted his profligacy and his... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 páginas
...genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all affected plainness,...same mixture of vicious contrarieties — the most groveling ideas were conveyed in the most inflated language, giving mock consequence to low cavils,... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 422 páginas
...genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all affected plainness,...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing, there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties; — the most groveling ideas... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 428 páginas
...the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. , tradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes; and...marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his stile and writing, there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties;—the most groveling ideas... | |
| 1816 - 692 páginas
...insidious, and little; nothing simple, nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation—a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with...motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and bis meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster. Nay, in his style and writing, there was... | |
| William Cobbett - 1816 - 744 páginas
...was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all-affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous...and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
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