 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...(holding them most ridiculous) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. • He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not with•ut some appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his... | |
 | 1813 - 536 pages
...in the country, and pursued it with that indefatigable industry, that it will not be believed in how short a time he was master of it, and accurately read...courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so Jar from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite of danger; and therefore, upon any occasion... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...church, (holding them most ridiculous) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not with* out some appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 662 pages
...of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite P of danger; and therefore, upon any occasion of action,...forwardness of the commanders, to be most like to lie farthest engaged ; and in all such encounters he had about him an extraordinary cheerfulness, <*... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 652 pages
...church0, (holding them most ridiculous,) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper,...from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite P of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops,... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - 1833 - 630 pages
...deprived of great jewels in the concealment of them, and that they are not published to the world." " He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he was not without appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 566 pages
...of this distinguished person rendered vacant the office of Secretary of State, which the 1643. _ " without some appetite of danger, and therefore upon...commanders, to be most like to be farthest " engaged." " From the entrance unto this unnatural war, his natural " cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 578 pages
...Hyde. They will tend to show what Falkland was, and how worthily his friend could describe him : — " He had a courage of the " most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not VOL. I. Q The death of this distinguished person rendered vacant the office of Secretary of State,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1839 - 706 pages
...government, (holding them most ridiculous,) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he was not without appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged... | |
 | Roman officers - 1841 - 304 pages
...clouded with poverty or want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper,...troops, which he thought, by the forwardness of the comor the draughts of Circe, has transformed the young and vigorous enthusiast into the victim of useless... | |
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He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops which he thought, by the forwardness... 
