 | Baratariana - Ireland - 1773 - 434 pages
...corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France funk beneath him. With one hand he fmote the Houfe of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England — The fight of his mind was infinite ; and his fchemes were to affect, not England, not the prefent age,... | |
 | John Almon - Great Britain - 1792 - 458 pages
...corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France funk beneath him. With one hand he fmote the Houfe of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The fight of his mind was infinite, and his fchemes were to affect, not England, not the prefent age only,... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France funk beneath him. With one hand he fmote the houfe of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The fight of his mind was infinite : and his fchemes were to affeft, not England, not the prefent age only,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France funk beneath him. With one hand he fmote tke houfe of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The fight of his mind was infinite: and his fchemes were to afFeft, not England, not the prefent age only,... | |
 | John Cartwright - Great Britain - 1804 - 246 pages
...dividing he destroyed party ; without corrupting he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England* ! But let us proceed : " Although the officers of a posse comitatus, to follow the good Saxon custom,... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1806 - 688 pages
...dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. Fraiicc sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded...not the present age only, but Europe, and posterity. There was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit,... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1806 - 686 pages
...dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded...not the present age only, but Europe, and posterity. There was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...great. Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age magnanimous. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. A character so exalted, so strenuous, so serious, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age; and the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...mind was infinite, and h's scheme* were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but iiurope and posterity. Wonderful were the means by which these...accomplished; always seasonable, always adequate : the »-jg£cstions of an understanding animated by ardour and eniighteBed by prophecy. • The ordinary... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...dividing, he deftroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the House of Bourbon, and wielded...and his schemes were to affect not England, not the prefent age only, but Europe and posterity. Wonderful were the means by which thefe fchemes were accomplished,... | |
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Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity. 
