 | 1808 - 546 pàgines
...was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed, all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous...his baseness and his meanness ; and marked him for i\ traitor, and a trickster i nay in his stile and writing, there was the same mixture of vicious contrarieties.... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pàgines
...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 - 518 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 422 pàgines
...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 motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pàgines
...insidious, and little; nothing simple, nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation—a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with...and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and bis meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 428 pàgines
...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 even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and... | |
 | 1817 - 630 pàgines
...was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed: all affected plainness and actual dissimulation ; — a heterogeneous...qualities; with nothing great but his crimes ; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his... | |
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Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory... 
