 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - Liczba stron: 436
...better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge. He told us himself that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune. Upon this principle he has connected himself closely with Lord Temple and Mr. Pitt, commenced a public adversary... | |
 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 574
...add : — "But a thorough profligate as well in principle as in practice ; his character is infamous, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and bawdy. These morals he glories in, for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." — 'Journal,'... | |
 | Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - 1917 - Liczba stron: 370
...he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge." He adds: "A thorough profligate in principle as in practice ;...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." This, no doubt, is greatly exaggerated ; and the historian, believing him really to confess his political... | |
 | Horace Bleackley - 1917 - Liczba stron: 548
...of his moral character. " A thorough profligate in principle as in practice," he considered him, " his life stained with every vice and his conversation...shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted." l Apparently, on this occasion, Wilkes was at some pains to shock the company by pretending that he... | |
 | Horace Bleackley - 1917 - Liczba stron: 542
...of his moral character. " A thorough profligate in principle as in practice," he considered him, " his life stained with every vice and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These i morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long l.since surmounted." 1 Apparently, on... | |
 | John Cannon - 1973 - Liczba stron: 356
...inadvertent, that of John Wilkes was most deliberate. In t762, almost overwhelmed by debt, he confided that 'in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune'.3 Accordingly he set up as patriot writer and picked a quarrel with Bute's paper, The Briton.... | |
 | Peter D. G. Thomas - 1996 - Liczba stron: 302
...deal of knowledge; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice; his character is infamous, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and bawdy. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told... | |
 | Richard Michael Connaughton - 2005 - Liczba stron: 316
...friend of Wilkes but, in his book, goodness and Wilkes were incompatible. Wilkes was 'a thorough going profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained...his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency'. Wilkes's scurrilous observations on the behaviour of the King's mother was as good an indication as... | |
 | John Sainsbury - 2006 - Liczba stron: 326
...persona. The public would be repeatedly told what Edward Gibbon confided to his diary: 'He [Wilkes] is a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his...glories in - for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted'.125 The campaign began almost as soon as Wilkes's name became known to the outside world... | |
 | Arthur H. Cash - 2006 - Liczba stron: 496
...deal of knowledge; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice; his character is infamous, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and bawdy. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. . . . This... | |
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... thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice. and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that... 
