His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which... The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a ... - Page 271by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - 1852Full view - About this book
| History - 1799 - 796 pages
...cultivated in letters; his focial virtues, in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable focieties, which will be diffipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite fome jealoufy,... | |
| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 536 pages
...his focial virtues in all the relations and ** all the habitudes of life, rendered him the " center of a very great and unparalleled variety ** of agreeable Societies, which will bediffipated ** by his death. He had too much merit not " to excite fome jealoufy, too much innocence... | |
| History - 1799 - 770 pages
...cultivated in letters; his focial virtues, in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, renaered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable focicties, which will be diffipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite fome jealoufy,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of societies, which will be dissipated by his death-...felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow." Perhaps the history of eloquence does not afford a more masterly instance of panegyric than this which... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...dissipated by his death- He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to pro* voke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be...felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow." Perhaps the history, of eloquence does not afford a more masterly instance of panegyric than this which... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...cultivated by " letters, his social virtues in all the relations " and all the habitudes of life, rendered him " the centre of a very great and unparalleled...enmity. " The loss of no man of his time can be felt and elegant, as well as profound and scientific!:, than the comparison between Michael Angelo and RafFaelle... | |
| 1802 - 314 pages
...— his focial virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the center of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable Societies, which will be diffipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite fome jealoufy, too much innocence to provoke... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...cultivated in letters — his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety...any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be VOL. II. M felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. HAIL ! and FAREWELL. MARQUIS OF KOCKINGHAM.... | |
| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1804 - 492 pages
...in letters' — his " focial virtues in all the relations and all the ha" bitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very " great and unparalleled variety of agreeable So" cieties, which will be diflipatcd by his death. " He had too much merit not to excite fome jea"... | |
| Biography - 1808 - 388 pages
...cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety...felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. LE SUEUR. WITHOUT having beheld the chef d'ceuvres of Italy, Le Sueur, at the age of thirty, obtained... | |
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