 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this house, except in such things... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 656 sider
...effect.' 70. 8. Compare Burke, Speech on American Taxation (of Lord Grenville), ' He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure which he was to enjoy.' The same thought recurs, a little exaggerated, in the ' Letter to... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 650 sider
...(irmovov. 8. Compare Burke, Speech on American Taxation (of Lord Grenvilli"), ' 1 le took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure which he was to enjoy.' The same thought recurs, a little exaggerated, in the ' Letter to... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 sider
...Work for its own sake was the one great charm of his life. " He took public business," said Burke, "not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy, and seemed to Lave no delight out of the House, except in such things as... | |
 | 1887 - 958 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy; and he seemed to have no delight out of this house, except in such things... | |
 | Junius - 1890 - 790 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of the House, except in such things... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1890 - 482 sider
...paid a remarkable tribute to Grenville's devotion to parliamentary work. ' He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this house, except in such things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application 10 undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy ; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 400 sider
...stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy; and he seemed to have no delight out of this House, except in such things... | |
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... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by... 
