 | John William Ward (earl of Dudley.) - 1840 - 438 sider
...incidents and the course of his life. The first letter is dated Dec. 27th, 1799,—the last Feb. 11, 1831. That they are all equally worthy of publication...candid observation on men and manners and political affairs,—original and deep reflection combined with a lively imagination, and a knowledge of books... | |
 | John William Ward Earl of Dudley - 1840 - 434 sider
...incidents and the course of his life. The first letter is dated Dec. 27th, 1799,—the last Feb. 11, 1831. That they are all equally worthy of publication...candid observation on men and manners and political affairs,—original and deep reflection combined with a lively imagination, and a knowledge of books... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 sider
...language of the Bishop's excellent preface, they can trace throughout even these letters the unfailing ' marks of the same intellectual and manly character...world, rarely found united in the same individual.' * * * For them they all ' afford the same evidence of a sincere, virtuous, and honourable mind, intent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 sider
...language of the Bishop's excellent preface, theij can trace throughout even these letters the unfailing ' marks of the same intellectual and manly character...world, rarely found united in the same individual.' * * * For them they all ' afford the same evidence of a sincere, virtuous, and honourable mind, intent... | |
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February llth, 1831. That they are all equally worthy of publication, cannot be supposed or pretended ; but I assert with confidence, that they all bear marks of the same intellectual and manly character — strong sense, acute, yet candid observation... 