 | 1792 - 684 pàgines
...Chriftopher Wren,— —The following character ii faid to be 'the production of Mr Burke. " His illnefa was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the lead mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 418 pàgines
...Holy family painted by himfelf, There is ftill a nich left in the Britilh Temple of Fame for himfeif, which gratitude, friendfhip, and veneration for talents,...mild ** and cheerful fortitude, without the leaft mix" ture of anything irritable or querulous, agree*' ably to the placid and even tenour of his whola... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1796 - 426 pàgines
...Mr Burke : " His illnefs-was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the leail mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his- whole life. He lad from the beginning of hLa malady a diftin¿t view of his diiTolution,... | |
 | 1798 - 756 pàgines
...Burke, by whom it was written not many hours after the melancholy event, which it commemoJiilCS. " His illnefs was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful...placid and even tenour of his whole life. He had, irom the beginning of his mabdy, a diftinct view of his dilTolimon ; and he contemplated it with that... | |
 | Charles M'Cormick - 1798 - 402 pàgines
...funeral panegyrics. " His illnefs was long," fays the mourner, " but borne with a mild and chearful fortitude, without the leaft mixture of any thing...irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life. He had from the beginning of his malady a diftinct view of his diflblution... | |
 | 1798 - 752 pàgines
...commemorates. " His íHnefs was long, but borne with a mud and cheerful fortitude, without the le.ill mixture of any thing irritable, or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tcnour of his whole life. He had, from the beginning of his rn;il:idy, a diftinct view of his dHTblution... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pàgines
...published. ' His illness was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the least mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life. He had, from the beginning of his malady, a distinct view of his dissolution... | |
 | 1794 - 512 pàgines
...they contemplated his illnefs, arad prophefied his' diflblution. •' His illnefs," fays Mr Burte, " was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the leatl mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeable tothe placid and even tenour of his whole... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pàgines
...Burke, not many hours after the melancholy event which it commemorates, had taken place : ". His illness was long, but borne with a " mild and cheerful fortitude, without the " least mixture of any thing irritable, of " querulous, agreeably to the placid and " even tenour of... | |
 | 1794 - 802 pàgines
...night, -in the fixty-nimlt year of his age, died, at his houfe in Leiciiter-fields, fir Jofluia Reynolds His illnefs was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful...irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even ti'iior of his whole life. He had, from the beginni;:q; of his malady, a diftmJi view of his diaolutionj... | |
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Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain, on the twenty-third of February, 1792, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. "His illness," says Burke, "was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the least mixture of any thing... 
