 | 1786 - 460 trang
...character which they have affigned him, or for attributing to him any very eftimable qualities : he feems to have been a violent and tyrannical prince; a perfidious,...equally prodigal and (rapacious in the management of the treafury; and, if he poflefled abilities, C l he he lay fo much under the government of impetuous... | |
 | William Russell - 1789 - 640 trang
...fufficient to expiate crimes of the blacked dye. WILLIAM II. though a man of found underftanding, appears to have been a violent and tyrannical prince; a perfidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbour, and an unkind and ungenerous relation. His vices, however, have probably been much exaggerated by :6.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 trang
...character which they have afligned him, or for attributing to him any very eftimable qualities; he feems to have been a violent and tyrannical prince ; a perfidious,...encroaching, and dangerous neighbour ; an unkind and un. generous relation. He was equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of the treafury ; and,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 trang
...character which they have affigncd him, or for attributing to him any very eftimable qualities; he feems to have been a violent and tyrannical prince; a perfidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbour -, an nnkind and ungenerous relation. He was equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of the treafury... | |
 | 1808 - 556 trang
...little advantage by the churchmen whom he had oBcnded ; and though we may expects in general, lh.it . their account of his vices is somewhat exaggerated,...a perfidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbour ; and an unkind and ungenerous relation, lie was equally proHenry, howcrer, knowing the weakr ness... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 trang
...transmitted to us with little advantage by the churchmen whom he had offended; aud though we may suspect in general that their account of his vices is somewhat exaggerated, his conduct affords tittle reason for contradicting the character which they have assigned him, or for attributing to him... | |
 | 1818 - 400 trang
...1244, and Gregory XI, about the year 1370, with a vigil. *9. 1087. — WILLIAM RUFUS BEGAN TO REIGN. He seems to have been a violent and tyrannical prince...equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of the treasury: and, if he possessed abilities, he lay so much under the government of impetuous pasgions,... | |
 | 1826 - 450 trang
...very eftimable qualities : he feems to have been a violent and tyrahhicaí prince' ; a per» fidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbour ; an unkind and...equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of the treafury; and, if he poffefled abilities, he lay fo much under the government of impetuous paffions,... | |
 | William Russell - 1839 - 582 trang
...sufficient to expiate crimes of the blackest dye. William II. though a man of sound understanding, appears to have been a violent and tyrannical prince; a perfidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbour, and an unkind and ungenerous relation. His vices, however, have probably been much exaggerated by the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 trang
...skill of a philosophical inquirer — a constant source of falsification. ' Rufus,' says Hume, ' was a violent and tyrannical prince, a perfidious, encroaching,...dangerous neighbour, an unkind and ungenerous relation, and was equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of his treasury. If he possessed abilities,... | |
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He seems to have been a violent and tyrannical prince ; a perfidious, encroaching, and dangerous neighbor ; an unkind and ungenerous relation. He was equally prodigal and rapacious in the management of his treasury ; and, if he possessed abilities, he... 
