 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...Johnson said of Warburton : ' His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperour's determination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed...adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as ir.ade his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advoca^ the wishes of some who favoured... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or moderate ; aud his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Uomau Emperor's determination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited .against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 736 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wuhes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's deteiv initiation.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed...commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's By this fond... | |
 | William Magee - 1812 - 564 pages
...to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed...readers commonly his enemies, and excited against him the wishes of some who favoured his cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination,... | |
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which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate 
