 | 1792 - 684 sider
...Chriftopher Wren,— —The following character ii faid to be 'the production of Mr Burke. " His illnefa was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the lead mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole... | |
 | 1799 - 796 sider
...Reynolds, aged fi8. The following character of him is the production of Mr.Burke. CHRONICLE. ÎTis illnefs' was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful...placid and even tenour of his •whole life. He had from the beginning of his malady a diftinet view of his diifolution, which he contemplated with -that... | |
 | 1792 - 530 sider
...long and lingering illnefs fucceeded, which he bore, although at times not without 'defpondency, yet without the leaft mixture of any thing irritable or...placid and even tenour of his whole life. He had, from the beginning of his malady, a diftinft view of his diflblution ; and he contemplated it with... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 418 sider
...Pericles — it is the eulogium of the greateft Painter by the moft confummate Orator of his time. ** His illnefs was long, but borne with a mild ** and cheerful fortitude, without the leaft mix" ture of anything irritable or querulous, agree*' ably to the placid and even tenour of his whola... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1796 - 426 sider
...Mr Burke : " His illnefs-was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the leail mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his- whole life. He lad from the beginning of hLa malady a diftin¿t view of his diiTolution,... | |
 | Charles M'Cormick - 1798 - 402 sider
...funeral panegyrics. " His illnefs was long," fays the mourner, " but borne with a mild and chearful fortitude, without the leaft mixture of any thing...irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life. He had from the beginning of his malady a diftinct view of his diflblution... | |
 | 1798 - 752 sider
...commemorates. " His íHnefs was long, but borne with a mud and cheerful fortitude, without the le.ill mixture of any thing irritable, or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tcnour of his whole life. He had, from the beginning of his rn;il:idy, a diftinct view of his dHTblution... | |
 | William Seward - 1798 - 536 sider
...t * " His. illnefs was long, but borne with a ".j;iild and cheerful fortitude, without the Icaft ** mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, ** agreeably to the placid and even teoour o£,: '?* 'his whole life. He had from the beginning " of his malady a diftinct view of his... | |
 | 1799 - 770 sider
...of which the freedom was prcfciited to him on the iSth of Oûobor, 1784. His illnefs'waslong, -bul borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without...the placid and even tenour of his whole life. He had from the beginning of his malady a diftinfr. view of his diflblution, which he contemplated with that... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 sider
...published. ' His illness was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the least mixture of any thing irritable or querulous, agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life. He had, from the beginning of his malady, a distinct view of his dissolution... | |
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Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain, on the twenty-third of February, 1792, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. "His illness," says Burke, "was long, but borne with a mild and cheerful fortitude, without the least mixture of any thing... 
