 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 páginas
...The courtly eye of the preceptor could indeed discover the germ of future excellence in his pupil ; but history has recorded only his vices : his virtues,...heart more callous to the suggestions of pity. Of Ms captives many never returned from their dungeons. If they survived their tortures, they were left... | |
 | 1841 - 582 páginas
...other. His dissimulation was so well knovvu, that it seldom deceived ; his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies ; and the knowledge of his...between him and those who had incurred his displeasure. He tortured the Jews, confined the wife and children of a noble who had-affronted him, in Windsor Castle... | |
 | John Lingard - 1837 - 378 páginas
...560. + Apud Raynald, i. 231. J Paris. 242. West. 276. New Rym. i. 1U. AD 1216.] HIS CHARACTER. 71 mity which often, at the sole appearance of opposition,...dissimulation was so well known, that it seldom deceived : his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies ; and the knowledge of his vindictive temper contributed... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1853 - 678 páginas
...The courtly eye of the preceptor could indeed discover the germ of future excellence in his pupil; but history has recorded only his vices : his virtues,...seldom deceived : his suspicion served only to multiply Irs enemies ; and the knowledge of his vindictive temper contributed to keep open the breach between... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 530 páginas
...despondency. Arrogant in prosperity, abject in adversity, he neither conciliated affection in the one, nor esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well...vindictive temper contributed to keep open the breach betwixt him and those who had incurred his displeasure. Seldom, perhaps, was there a prince with a... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasey - 1853 - 366 páginas
...despondency. Arrogant in prosperity, abject in adversity, he neither conciliated affection in the one nor esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well...vindictive temper contributed to keep open the breach betwixt him and those who had incurred his displeasure." A few only of the specific instances of the... | |
 | John Lingard - 1853 - 378 páginas
...despondency. Arrogant in prosperity, abject in adversity, he neither conciliated affection in the one, cor excited esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well known, that it seldom deceived : his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies ; and .the knowledge of his vindictive temper contributed... | |
 | John Lingard - 1854 - 352 páginas
...i. 231. 7Paris, 242. West. 276. JfewEym.i.lM. * Girald. 753. AD 1216.] HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER. 187 history has recorded only his vices ; his virtues,...dissimulation was so well known, that it seldom deceived ; his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies; and the knowledge of his vindictive temper contributed... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 páginas
...about the legends respecting Marian Henry Piuel's wife. Another Fitzwalter,in Thomson's "Magna one nor esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well...vindictive temper contributed to keep open the breach betwixt him and those who had incurred his displeasure." A few only of the specific instances of the... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 páginas
...despondency. Arro* gant in prosperity, abject in adversity, he neither conciliated affection in the one, not excited esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well known that it seldom deceived; his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies ; and the knowledge of/ his vindictive temper contributed... | |
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He stands before us polluted with meanness, cruelty, perjury, and murder; uniting with an ambition, which rushed through every crime to the attainment of its object, a pusillanimity which often, at the sole appearance of opposition, sank into despondency.... 
