 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pàgines
...free and private society3. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. * Memoires Secrets dc la Cour de... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pàgines
...free and private society 3. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pàgines
...most amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pàgines
...most amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 pàgines
...childish years." His Lordship here evidently alludes to Gibbon's beautiful expression respecting Fox : " I admired the powers of a superior man as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - 1851 - 524 pàgines
...great man should give of another, his rival." And in his autobiography, says, "I admired in Mr. Fox the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever freer... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 pàgines
...invited friendship. ' I admired,' says Mr Gibbon, after describing a day passed with him at Lausanne, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pàgines
...free and private society. He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pàgines
...most amiable of great men : — " He seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 400 pàgines
...free and private society. He seemed to feel arid even to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more... | |
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He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly... 
