| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 332 pages
...fteer'd the Publick Affairs, by admiring his Parts, and extolling his Judgement as well to his face, as behind his back, wrought upon him by degrees, for the eminency of the Service, to be an Inftrument in all their Defigns ; thinking that he could not give a clearer teftimony, that his knowledge... | |
| Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...fteer'd the public affairs, by admiring his parts, and extolling his judgment, as well to his face as behind his back, wrought upon him by degrees, for the eminency of the fervice, to be be? an inllrunvnt in all their de'igns : thinking that he Could not give a clearer teftimony... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...steered the public affairs, by admiring his parts, and extolling his judgment, as well to his face, as behind his back, wrought upon him by degrees, for...his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law, which all other men believed not to be so. So he moulded, framed, and... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1807 - 496 pages
...who fteered the public affairs, by admiring his parts, and extolling his judgment as well to his face as behind his back, wrought upon him by degrees, for the eminency of the fervice, to be an inftrument in all their defigns; thinking that he could not give a clearer teftimony,... | |
| Max Wilhelm Meyer - 1809 - 786 pages
...affairs, hy admiring his parts and extolling his judgment as behind his back, wrought up»n him bv degrees for the eminency of the service, to be an...give a clearer testimony, that his knowledge in the Inw was greater thin all other metis, than hv making that law which all other men believed not lo be... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...man of great abilities, but flattered so much upon that account, th it Clarendon says he thought " he could not give a clearer testimony that his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law, which all other men believed not to be so. So he moulded, framed, and... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 488 pages
...a man of great ahilities, but flattered so much upon that account, that Clarendon says he thought " he could not give a clearer testimony that his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law, which all other men believed not to be so. So he moulded, framed, and... | |
| George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...converted him into an instrument of their designs : " He, .thinking," to borrow the words ef Clarendon, " that he could not give a clearer testimony that his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law which all other men believed not ;to be so *." Lord-treasurer Weston,... | |
| Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1826 - 624 pages
...judgment as well to his face as behind his .back, wrought upon him by degrees, for the emi1630. nency of the service, to be an instrument in all their designs...his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law which all other men believed not to be so. So he moulded, framed, and... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 628 pages
...judgment as well to his face as behind his .back, wrought upon him by degrees, for the emi1630. nency of the service, to be an instrument in all their designs;...his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law which all other men believed not to be so. So he moulded, framed, and... | |
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