 | John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 686 ページ
...devotion which had consecrated a whole life to toil and danger in the cause of their emancipation. While, therefore, he was ever ready to rebuke, and...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French German, or Flemish ; and... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 674 ページ
...considerable power of imagination, a warmth of sentiment, a breadth of view, a directness of purpose—a range of qualities, in short, which would in themselves...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French German, or Flemish; and... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1859 - 502 ページ
...with men of all ranks, from emperors and kings down to secretaries, and even children — all shew an easy flow of language, a fulness of thought, a...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in Eloquence. 455 French, German,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 674 ページ
...expression rare in that age, a fund of historical allusion, a considerable power of imagination, a warmtli of sentiment, a breadth of view, a directness of purpose...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French. German, or Flemish ; and... | |
 | 1871 - 516 ページ
...power of expression rare in that age, a directness of purpose, a range of qualities, in short, which in themselves have stamped him as one of the master-minds of his century. If the capacity for unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause is to be the measure of human... | |
 | 1872 - 660 ページ
...and kings down to secretaries, and even children, — all show an easy flow of language, a fullness of thought, a power of expression rare in that age,...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French, German, or Flemish ; and... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 ページ
...emperors and kings down to secretaries, and even children, all show an easy flow of language, a fullness of thought, a power of expression rare in that age,...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French, German, or Flemish ; and... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 ページ
...age, a fund of historical allusion, a considerable power of imagination, a warmth of senti- 175 ment, a breadth of view, a directness of purpose ; a range...than the remains of his spoken or written eloquence. 180 ANALYSIS. — 159. Give the case of self-denial. 166. Name the object of knew. 172. Dispose of... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 ページ
...range of qualities, in short, which would in themselves have stamped him as one of the master minds of his century, had there been no other monument to...Philip was more industrious in the Cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well iu French, German, or Flemish ; and... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 ページ
...devotion which had consecrated a whole life to toil and danger in the cause of their emancipation. While, therefore, he was ever ready to rebuke, and...Philip was more industrious in the cabinet. Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. He wrote and spoke equally well in French, German, or Flemish ; and... | |
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... his private correspondence with men of all ranks, from emperors and kings down to secretaries, and even children — all show an easy flow of language, a fulness of thought, a power of expression rare in that age, a fund of historical allusion, a... 
