 | William Hickling Prescott - 1837 - 624 pages
...his posterity. Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...the nicest principles of honor and justice. His last communication to the sovereigns from the Indies remonstrates against the use of violent measures in... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...posterity. " Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...loyalty to his sovereigns. His conduct habitually display, ed the utmost solicitude for the interests of his followers. He expended almost his last maravedi... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...without coinciding in the conclusion (Prescott, iii. 230), that " the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in his moral character," or without echoing the eulogium (Elo. VI lib. iv. 123), passed upon him by Giovio. Considering the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1849 - 598 pages
...his posterity. Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...dealings were regulated by the nicest principles of honour and justice. His last communication to the sovereigns from the Indies remonstrates against the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1851 - 518 pages
...sentiment of devoted loyalty to his sovereigns. His eonduet habitually displayed the utmost solieitude for the interests of his followers. He expended almost his last maravedi in restoring his unfortunate erew to their natiTe land. His dealings were regulated by the nieest prineiples of honour and justiee.... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 492 pages
...his posterity. Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...of devoted loyalty to his sovereigns. His conduct habituallv displayed the utmost solicitude for the interests of his followers. He expended almost his... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 568 pages
...Htaiofty Whatever were the defects of his mental consticliarocier. union, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...the nicest principles of honor and justice. His last communication to the sovereigns from the Indies remonstrates against the use of violent measures in... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1868 - 570 pages
...his posterity. Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...the nicest principles of honor and justice. His last communication to the sovereigns from the Indies remonstrates against the use of violent measures in... | |
 | Teacher of history - 1879 - 482 pages
...talents, lofty aspirations, and profound piety. " The finger of the historian," says Prescott, " will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in his moral character, Whether we sontemplate it in its public ot private relations, in all its features it wean the same... | |
 | Alphonse Marie L. de Prat de Lamartine - 1882 - 162 pages
...Western World." Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in...utmost solicitude for the interests of his followers. His dealings were regulated by the nicest principles of honour and justice. His last communication... | |
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Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in his moral character. His correspondence breathes the sentiment of devoted loyalty to his sovereigns. His conduct habitually... 
