Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain...: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions, 6. kötetHarding and Lepard, 1835 |
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... known to constitute the brightest ornament to English biography . Authenticated by the closest intimacy , and the most unreserved confidence ; glowing with the sacred warmth of a friendship strictly impartial , because it was founded on ...
... known to constitute the brightest ornament to English biography . Authenticated by the closest intimacy , and the most unreserved confidence ; glowing with the sacred warmth of a friendship strictly impartial , because it was founded on ...
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... known . " The Lord Falkland , " says Warwick , " had prodigious natural parts ; a memory , and a fancy which retained all it read or heard , and then as rhetori- cally set it forth ; and his notions were useful , and not common . He ...
... known . " The Lord Falkland , " says Warwick , " had prodigious natural parts ; a memory , and a fancy which retained all it read or heard , and then as rhetori- cally set it forth ; and his notions were useful , and not common . He ...
7. oldal
... known nothing ; that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him as in a College , situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a University in a less volume , whither they came not so much for repose as study , and to examine and ...
... known nothing ; that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him as in a College , situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a University in a less volume , whither they came not so much for repose as study , and to examine and ...
8. oldal
... known laws upon the title of conveniency or necessity , which made him so severe against the Earl of Strafford , and the Lord Finch , contrary to his natural gentleness and temper ; insomuch as they who did not know his composition to ...
... known laws upon the title of conveniency or necessity , which made him so severe against the Earl of Strafford , and the Lord Finch , contrary to his natural gentleness and temper ; insomuch as they who did not know his composition to ...
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... known sufficient ( haud semper errat fama , aliquando & eligit ) he resolved to decline it , and at last suffered himself only to be overruled by the advice and persuasions of his friends to submit to it . Afterwards , when he found ...
... known sufficient ( haud semper errat fama , aliquando & eligit ) he resolved to decline it , and at last suffered himself only to be overruled by the advice and persuasions of his friends to submit to it . Afterwards , when he found ...
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affairs affection afterwards appointed army became Buckingham castle character Charles Church command Council Court covenanters Cranfield Crown daughter death died dignity DUKE OF HAMILTON Earl of Arundel Earl of Denbigh Earl of Essex Earl of Holland eldest endeavours enemy engaged England estates father favour favourite force France friends Goring GRACE hath heir Henry honour horse House of Commons House of Peers James King King's kingdom lady late Laud length letter London Long Parliament Lord Capel Lord Clarendon Majesty marched Marquis married master means memoir military Montrose never noble nobleman occasion ORIGINAL OF VANDYKE Oxford Parliament party passed passion Peers person presently Prince Privy Queen rebels received religion says Lord Clarendon scarcely Scotland Scots Scottish shew Sir Edward Walker soon succeeded thought thousand pounds tion tonnage and poundage treaty troops unto Viscount wilbe William WILLIAM LAUD
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9. oldal - His stature was low, and smaller than most men ; his motion not graceful, and his aspect so far from inviting, that it had somewhat in it of simplicity ; and his voice the worst of the three, and so untuned that instead of reconciling-, it offended the ear, so that nobody would have expected music from that tongue ; and sure no man was ever less beholden to nature for its recommendation into the world.
9. oldal - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so glowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed Civil War than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.