 | Horace Walpole - 1759 - 272 sider
...to Dr. Whichcot's felect difcourfes," which his Lordftiip publifhed. octavo. JOHN LORD SOMERS, ON E of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft age, and it's beft authors reprefent him, as the moft incorrupt Lawyer, and... | |
 | 1759 - 422 sider
...J<>hn L'.rd Somerr. ONE of thofe divine men, who, like a ilk lna aPalace' remain unprofaned, while aJ the reft is tyranny, corruption and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laftage, and its beft authors, reprefent him, as the moft incorrupt lawyer, and thehoncfteft... | |
 | Brutus (pseud.) - 1774 - 342 sider
...Walpnle, in his royal and noble authors, lays of Lord Somers, and of Su/ift't hiltory, viz. " He was one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, retnain unprofaned, while all the rell is tyranny, corruption and folly." Speaking of the Dean's hiftory,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1792 - 544 sider
...collection, p. 75. •x " Preface to Dr. Whichcot's feleft difMcourfes," which his Lordfliip publiflied. 8vov JOHN LORD SOMERS, ONE of thofe divine men, who, like...and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft age, and its beft authors, reprefent him, as the moft incorrupt lawyer, and... | |
 | 1794 - 540 sider
...the juUice and ecjuity, becoming a great magiftrate." A noble writer of our own times * calls him " one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprifitned, whillt all the reif is tyranny, corruption, ?.nd foily. All the traditional accounts of... | |
 | William Seward - 1795 - 684 sider
...fpirited pencil of Lord Orford, in his " Catalogue •* of Royal and Noble Authors." — " He was '' one of thofe divine men, who like a chapel " in a palace remain unprofaned, whilft all the •' reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All " the traditionary accounts of him,"... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1795 - 132 sider
...but mark what follows. An act of parliament was immediately pafled, which, in oppofition to every * "One of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprdphancd , while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 430 sider
...and fpirited pencil of Lord Orford, in his " Catalogue « of Royal and Noble Authors."—" He was " one of thofe divine men, who like a chapel " in a palace remain unprofaned, whilft all the " reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All 11 the traditionary accounts of him,"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 sider
...Politenefs. P. " One of thofe divine men," fays Lord Orford finely, " who, like a chapel in a palace, remains unprofaned, while all the reft, is tyranny, corruption,...and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the hiftorians of the laft age, and its beft authors, reprefent him, as the moit incorrupt lawyer, and... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1802 - 332 sider
...Lord Somers : who, to ufe the remarkable words of a late agreeable biographer, (Horace Walpole) was one of thofe divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace,...while all the reft is tyranny, corruption, and folly. A new part of his character, his generous and uninterefted patronage of literature, appears in the... | |
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ONE of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly... 
