...gift and grace that nature and fortune could give. Three years before this Swift wrote to Stella, 'I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew...apprehension, good learning and an excellent taste ; the greatest orator in the House of Commons, admirable conversation, good nature and good manners, generous,...

...paid : how is that now ? find it out ; for I won't tell it you : which of you finds it out ? . . . I think Mr. St. John the' greatest young man I ever...the best orator in the House of Commons, admirable conversa• 1 ion, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault...

...paid : how is that now ? find it out ; for I won't tell it you : which of you finds it out ? . . . I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehen" sion, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the House of Commons, admirable...

...thus records his earlier impressions (Nov. 3, 1711): "I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man 1 ever knew — wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of...generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault i.. 1 In verses addressed to him in 1705 ho thus wittily hits off hia odd outward person, with an allusion...

...earlier impressions (Nov. 3, 1711): "I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man 1 ever knew—wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good...generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault ia ' In verses addressed to him in 1703 ho thus wittily hits off his, odd outward person, with an allusion...

...St. John's character as it appeared to him in the autumn of 1711. "I think Mr St. John," he writes, "the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity,...generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault ia talking to his friends in way of complaint of too great a load of busmess, which looks a little...

...quickness of appre1 See Walpole's George II, i. 222. iv BOLINGBROKE 79 hension, good learning, and excellent taste ; the best orator in the House of...nature, and good manners ; generous and a despiser of money.1 Another of his friends vowed, in a grand transport of praise, that the writings and conversation...

...jamais.' — (Ewvres de Voltaire, ed. 1819-25, lix. 76. 4 Swift thus described him in 1711 : — 'I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew,...orator in the House of Commons, admirable conversation, good-nature, and good-manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.' — Journal to Stella, Nov. 3,...

...the greatest young man he ever knew, " wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good bearing and an excellent taste; the best orator in the House of Commons, admirable conversation, good nature, good manners ; generous and a despiser of money." It is curious how large a space beauty filled in...

...for instance, that Swift speaks of the new Secretary when all the world was running after him. " I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew...a despiser of money. His only fault is talking to Ms friends in way of complaint of too great a load of business, which looks a little like affectation...