 | George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...of his life, if the amenity of his manners had equalled his ardor in promoting the public welfare. " But it must be confessed that he exhibited in conversation...thought it was not wise or good to intrust to men in the'mas's the care of their own well-being. The right, which seems so natural to them, of judging whether... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...of his life, if the amenity of his manners had equalled his ardor in promoting the public welfare. a dignity derived — • CUVIER, BARON, 1815, filoge on Count Rumford, Jan. 9. The sight of him very much reduced our... | |
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... all these services to his fellow-men he had no real love or regard for them. It would appear as if the vile passions which he had observed in the miserable objects committed to his care, or those other passions, not less vile, which his success and... 