Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin]. |
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... fortune , in consequence of family circumstances , which we need not here relate . Finding his private means insufficient for his support , he returned to England , and commenced the study of the Law , to which he applied himself with ...
... fortune , in consequence of family circumstances , which we need not here relate . Finding his private means insufficient for his support , he returned to England , and commenced the study of the Law , to which he applied himself with ...
Pagina 4
... fortune ; one of many kindnesses which Bacon too ill requited . In 1592 Bacon published a defence of the govern- ment , in answer to a libel , in consequence of which he received the reversion of the register's office to the Star ...
... fortune ; one of many kindnesses which Bacon too ill requited . In 1592 Bacon published a defence of the govern- ment , in answer to a libel , in consequence of which he received the reversion of the register's office to the Star ...
Pagina 6
... fortunes of the reigning favourite Somerset , and when that lord and his countess were brought to trial for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , he had the manage- ment of the case for the Crown , which he so conducted as to keep himself ...
... fortunes of the reigning favourite Somerset , and when that lord and his countess were brought to trial for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , he had the manage- ment of the case for the Crown , which he so conducted as to keep himself ...
Pagina 17
... another , and the scrupulous fidelity with which he rejected them in succession , as they proved irrecon- cilable with the unerring test of observation . Not less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , KEPLER . 17.
... another , and the scrupulous fidelity with which he rejected them in succession , as they proved irrecon- cilable with the unerring test of observation . Not less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , KEPLER . 17.
Pagina 18
Arthur Thomas Malkin. less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , while groping in the dark , among erroneous princi- ples and erroneous assumptions , he was led , by careful observation of Mars , to discover the true form of ...
Arthur Thomas Malkin. less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , while groping in the dark , among erroneous princi- ples and erroneous assumptions , he was led , by careful observation of Mars , to discover the true form of ...
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Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits ... Arthur Thomas Malkin Volledige weergave - 1838 |
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admirable afterwards ancient Anne of Austria appears appointed army attack authority Bacon became Ben Jonson Blake Bossuet Buckinghamshire called Cardinal celebrated character Charles church Coke command conduct court Cromwell death doctrines Duke Dutch enemy engaged England English father favour favourite fortune France French friends Galileo genius Grotius Gustavus Hampden Henry Holland honour House Inner Temple Jonson Kepler King King's labours learning letters Long Parliament Lord Louis Louis XIII master ment mind minister Murillo nature never occasion opinions Oxford painted painter Paris Parliament party Pascal Paul Veronese political Poussin Prince Prince of Orange Protestant published Queen received remarkable reputation Richelieu Rome Rosny royal Rubens says Selden sent siege Sir Edward Coke soon Spain spirit success Sweden talents tion Titian took treatise troops Turenne University of Oxford Vauban writings
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Pagina 60 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Pagina 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Pagina 191 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Pagina 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Pagina 56 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Pagina 287 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 55 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Pagina 449 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Pagina 34 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Pagina 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.