It was by this engaging, graceful manner that he was enabled during all his war to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies,... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 271845Full view - About this book
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever Court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), . he as constantly prevailed, and 5 brought them into his... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever Court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 438 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 570 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadedness. Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.'... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1902 - 310 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever Court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.... | |
| Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 320 pages
...forty years, was absolutely governed by the Duke of Marlborough, as that Republic feels to this day. He was always cool, and nobody ever observed the least variation in his countenance; he could refuse more gracefully than other people could grant; and those who went away from him the most... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 438 pages
...object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.... | |
| Ignatius Sancho - 1998 - 388 pages
...Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope (London, 1774, with many subsequent editions): "[Marlborough] was always cool; and nobody ever observed the least variation in his countenance; he could refuse more gracefully than other people could grant; and those who went away from him the most... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1778 - 578 pages
...of the war, notwithftanding their private and feparace views, jealoufies, and wrong- headednefles. Whatever court he went to, (and he was often obliged to go himfelf to fome refty and refraftory ones) he as conftantly prevailed, and brought them into his meafures.... | |
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