 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1857 - 656 pages
...no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that :; was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz., a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, / so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach — namely, a narrowness in his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz.. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...more to bo said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness Ui his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...more to bo said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1863 - 546 pages
...be abject ; ' There needs no more be said to eitol Uic excellence and power of his (Waller's)* wit, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great fault#,that is, a narrow* nese in hie nature to the lowest degree, an abjcctness and want of courage,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 732 pages
...more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
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There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of... 
