 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 pages
...which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person." His talents for business were as remarkable as his...industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp." Yet it was... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 pages
...formidable debaters. Again to quote Clarendon's estimate of the famous Puritan chieftain : " He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle and sharp. . . . the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 286 pages
...he can toil terribly," is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits, — of Hampden, " who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 450 pages
...he can toil terribly," is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits, — of Hampden, *who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 396 pages
...he can toil terribly," is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits, — of Hampden, "who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 428 pages
...he can toil terribly," is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits, — of Hampden, "who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by 'the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired, out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of personal... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 pages
...toil," said even Louis XIV., " that kings govern." When Clarendon described Hampden, he spoke of him as "of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's. He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a... | |
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He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious, and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts... 
