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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5. oldal
... seems to have left no room even for a very short confinement ; which , had it happened to such a man , could indeed scarcely have passed wholly unnoticed in history . His next brother , John , who succeeded to him in the title , and ...
... seems to have left no room even for a very short confinement ; which , had it happened to such a man , could indeed scarcely have passed wholly unnoticed in history . His next brother , John , who succeeded to him in the title , and ...
1. oldal
... seems to have been founded on its station . in the first class of English gentry ; on extensive territorial possessions ; and , on an alledged descent from the ancient Counts of Hapsburg , whose House has given so many Sovereigns to ...
... seems to have been founded on its station . in the first class of English gentry ; on extensive territorial possessions ; and , on an alledged descent from the ancient Counts of Hapsburg , whose House has given so many Sovereigns to ...
1. oldal
... seems to have been founded on its station in the first class of English gentry ; on extensive territorial pos- sessions ; and , on an alledged descent from the ancient Counts of Hapsburg , whose House has given so many Sovereigns to ...
... seems to have been founded on its station in the first class of English gentry ; on extensive territorial pos- sessions ; and , on an alledged descent from the ancient Counts of Hapsburg , whose House has given so many Sovereigns to ...
4. oldal
... seems to have made some spirited , though fruitless efforts ; for the same author adds that the third and fourth of October were passed , to use his own words , in " tentatives inutiles des Anglois pour forcer la Digue qui fermoit le ...
... seems to have made some spirited , though fruitless efforts ; for the same author adds that the third and fourth of October were passed , to use his own words , in " tentatives inutiles des Anglois pour forcer la Digue qui fermoit le ...
6. oldal
... seems to have retired into privacy soon after his return from Persia , and remained unemployed till the commence- ment of the rebellion , when he placed himself , to use the words of Lord Clarendon , " as a volunteer in the King's guard ...
... seems to have retired into privacy soon after his return from Persia , and remained unemployed till the commence- ment of the rebellion , when he placed himself , to use the words of Lord Clarendon , " as a volunteer in the King's guard ...
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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.