 Arrogant in prosperity, abject in adversity, he neither conciliated affection in the one, nor excited esteem in the other. His dissimulation was so well known, that it seldom deceived : his suspicion served only to multiply his enemies : and the knowledge...  Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs - Page 29by William Eusebius Andrews - 1826Full view - About this book
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lingard - 1840 - 396 pages
...hii preface to the Patent Rolls. well known, that it seldom deceived : his habit of suspicion served to multiply his enemies ; and the knowledge of his...the suggestions of pity. Of his captives many never retumed from their dungeons. If they survived their tortures, they were left to perish by famine. He... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1853 - 678 pages
...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...seldom deceived : his suspicion served only to multiply Irs enemies ; and the knowledge of his vindictive temper contributed to keep open the breach between... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasey - 1853 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lingard - 1853 - 378 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
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