...thy fickle clime. (Cowper's Task.) Lord North was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding , fitted for every sort of business , of infinite wit and pleasantry, and of a delightful temper. (Burke.) In the heigth of his reputation , and at a premature period of...

...to speak disrespectfully of lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of...and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper; and with a miud most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and...

...Hail ! and farewell !" LORD NORTH. Lord North was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of...vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. — Letter to a Noble Lord. SIR SIDNEY SMITH. Sir Sydney Smith having attempted, with great gallantry,...

...was," says his great political opponent, Burke, " a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of...infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, with a mind most disinterested." To this eulogium of Burke, on one whom he does not hesitate to call...

...admirahle parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of husiness ; i r he only to degrade myself hy a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny...

...Burke has thus delineated his character : " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of...and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper, and with ft mind most disinterested.'" Gibbon, in tho preface to his great history, says of him : " Were I ambitious...

...Burke has thus delineated his character : " He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of business: of infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delight™ temper, and with a mind most disinterested. Gibbon, in the preface to his great history,...

...mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of...to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted somfiHung Qf.tTie~"vigjbtncB, and spirit of...

...business, of infinite wit and " pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per" fectly disinterested ; but it would be only to degrade myself...and '' spirit of command that the time required." An interesting picture of Lord North in domestic society, drawn in February 1839 by his only surviving...

...Lord :" — "He was a man of " admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile under" standing, fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit...pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most per" fectly disinterested ; but it would be only to degrade myself " by a weak adulation, and not to...