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" ... enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; — viz., a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous... "
The General Biographical Dictionary - Página 22
por Alexander Chalmers - 1817
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1793 - 268 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking; an insinuation, and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with : his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was at least pitied, where he was...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous uncler" taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and "most imperious nature...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been ambitious to have lost...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volumen2

1802 - 522 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation, and servile flattery to the height, the vainest, and most imperious nature...preserved and won his life- from those, who were most rewived to take it ; and in an occasion in which. he ought to have-' been ambitious to have lost it...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volumen1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...of courage to support him in any virtuous v.nder«* taking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and " most imperious nature...that it preserved and " won his life from those who most resolved to take it, and in an occasion " in which he ought te have been auibitious to have lost...
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Letters Supposed to Have Passed Between M. de St. Evremond and Mr. Waller

John Langhorne - 1809 - 236 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...and won his life from those who were most resolved la take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volúmenes9-10

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous [undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...contented with ; that it preserved and won his life from thcs: who were most resolved to take it ; and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volumen9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...courage to support him in any virtuous " under*' undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to i' the height, the vainest and most imperious nature...from those who were most resolved to take " it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have " been ambitious to have lost it ; and then pre" served him...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volumen8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 páginas
...want of conrage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...life from those, who were most resolved to take it, ud in an occasion, in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...from those who were most resolved to take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him again...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

1817 - 504 páginas
...want of courage to support him in any vir/tuous undertaking ; an insinuating and serpile flattery, to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could...and on an occasion in which he ought to have been amhitious to hnve lost it; and then preserved him again from the reproach and con.tempt that was due...
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