 Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England ; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance...  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 94מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1837 - 654 דפים
...have seen him in England ; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...life. He could speak no English, and was past the age for learning it. Our customs and laws were all mysteries to him ; which he neither tried to understand,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 דפים
...have seen him in England; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...by the stream of the people about him, in that, as m every action of his life. He could speak no English, and was past the age of learning it. Our customs... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 דפים
...throne. " The natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made liim look upon his acceptance of the crown as an act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him." He lived in St. James's Palace like a quiet private gentleman of independent fortune. His evening parties... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 דפים
...more dull than indolent ; and the plain honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him. He had no taste for literature or the arts, and was very parsimonious." — Wade's British Historyt... | |
 | John Wade - 1856 - 862 דפים
...more dull than indolent ; and the plain honesty of his nature, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of the crown as an net of injustice towards his half-cousin the Pretender. He had no taste for literature or the arts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 דפים
...more dull than inuolsnt ; and the plain honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions uf a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him. He had no taste for literature or the arts, and was very parsimonious." — Wade's British History... | |
 | M F. Mahony - 1873 - 350 דפים
...have seen him in England ; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...uneasy to him. But he was carried by the stream of people about him in that, as in every other action of his life. He could speak no English, and was... | |
 | 1873 - 1084 דפים
...more dull than indolent ; and the plain honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of...act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him. He had no taste for literature or the arts, and was ten with liquor ; each of the former afforded me... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 דפים
...more dull than indolent ; and the plain honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a ould aught ease the " language of the most insulting...might excite the ridicule of ill-nature ; hut I was ne Ho had no taste for literature or the arts, and was ten with liquor ; each of the former afforded me... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 דפים
...plain honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low :dacatlon, made him look upon bis acceptance of the crown as an act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him. He had no taste for literatim or the arts, an* was verr parsimonious."— Wadt'l SritUh llulory, p.... | |
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