 I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous,...  Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William Temple, Bart - Page 143de Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 710 pages
...hear it ? is it possible to tell you the hundredth part of what passes in our companies here ? The Secretary is as easy with me as Mr. Addison was. I...think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness or apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 682 pages
...hear it ? is it possible to tell you the hundredth part of what passes in our companies here ? The Secretary is as easy with me as Mr. Addison was. I...William Temple makes about being Secretary of State : l I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness ol v... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 384 pages
...world! " Swift, about this period, draws the following portrait of his gifted and mercurial friend: " I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew: wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pages
...Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment." — Ibid. "The Secretary is as easy with me as Mr. Addison was. I...William Temple makes about being Secretary of State."— Ibid. " Lord Treasurer has had an ugly fit of the rheumatism, but is now quite well. I was playing... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 310 pages
...1712. It may well be compared with the better-known sketch of Bolingbroke which Swift has left us — " I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew, with capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 374 pages
...1712. It may well be compared with the better-known sketch of Bolingbroke which Swift has left us — " I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew, with capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...are full of Bolingbroke, for whom he had a very great admiration. In one place he writes to Stella : I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew : wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning and an excellent taste ; the best... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 582 pages
...hear it ? is it possible to tell you the hundredth part of what passes in our companies here ? the Secretary is as easy with me as Mr Addison was. I...often thought what a splutter Sir William Temple makes [made] about being Secretary of State ; I think Mr St John the greatest young man I ever knew; wit,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...latest times shall learn From such a chief to fight, and bard to sing. —PHILIPS, JOHN, 1705, Bknheim. I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew : wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pages
...described by such a hand as Swift's, even though it was at an early stage of their acquaintance: " I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator... | |
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