 | 1869 - 622 pages
...superlatives, as we read that ' No man ever deserved a higher or a more Listing place in national grntitude than the first man who, being neither king nor priest,...years of political life, was never raised in any cause hut that of the welfare of England. Side by side with all that is worthiest in our later history —... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1870 - 802 pages
...turn to the records of his own character. ftmQ} ^ gee now ne J^^gj [n tjje eeg Qf men seen and heard him, of men who had felt the blessings of his rule...whose voice, during five and thirty years of political strife, was never raised in any cause but that of the welfare of England. Side by side with all that... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1870 - 448 pages
...forth in English history as endowed with all the highest attributes of the statesman. In him, in these distant times, we can revere the great minister, the...England. Side by side with all that is worthiest in our latest history, — side by side with his counterpart two ages afterwards, the second deliverer from... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...the records of his own time, to see how he looked in character the eyes of men who had seen and heard him, of men who had felt the blessings of his rule...whose voice, during five and thirty years of political strife, was never raised in any cause but that of the .welfare of England. Side by side with all that... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1895 - 614 pages
...with all the highest attributes of ls* Anglo-Saxon Britain, p. 172. 160 Norman Conquest, iii. 454. the statesman. In him, in those distant times, we...who could sway councils and assemblies at his will, etc., etc. 162 We know of whom the writer was thinking, when he praised that " irresistible tongue... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1909 - 614 pages
...endowed with all the highest attributes of ia Norman Conquest, iii. 454. 153 Anglo-Saxon Britain, p. 172. the statesman. In him, in those distant times, we...who could sway councils and assemblies at his will, etc., etc. IW We know of whom the writer was thinking, when he praised that " irresistible tongue"... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1988 - 366 pages
...old man, eloquent, [who] could again sway assemblies of Englishmen at his will', or when he notes how we can 'revere the great minister, the unrivalled...man who could sway councils and assemblies at his will.'62 It was not Alfred, but William Ewart Gladstone. Freeman's praise of Godwin, which incidentally... | |
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No man ever deserved a higher or a more lasting place in national gratitude than, the first man who, being neither King nor Priest, stands forth in English history as endowed with all the highest attributes of the statesman. In him, in those distant times,... 