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... sent to Sir George requiring him to sell those houses to the mayor and commonalty of the city of London " for such prices as he did purchase them for . " Sir Richard calculated that two thousand pounds or something more would pay for ...
... sent to Sir George requiring him to sell those houses to the mayor and commonalty of the city of London " for such prices as he did purchase them for . " Sir Richard calculated that two thousand pounds or something more would pay for ...
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... sent to Cam- bridge , and yet was bound apprentice , as mercer , to his uncle John . Whether he went to the university first , and to his uncle's counting - house or warehouse after- wards , or whether he finished his apprenticeship ...
... sent to Cam- bridge , and yet was bound apprentice , as mercer , to his uncle John . Whether he went to the university first , and to his uncle's counting - house or warehouse after- wards , or whether he finished his apprenticeship ...
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... sent for unto the council , to know my opinion what way , with least charge , his Majesty might grow out of debt . And after my device was declared , the King's highness and the council required me to take the room [ business or office ] ...
... sent for unto the council , to know my opinion what way , with least charge , his Majesty might grow out of debt . And after my device was declared , the King's highness and the council required me to take the room [ business or office ] ...
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... sent over to Antwerp to help to appease the impatience of the king's creditors , or to procure more money to be absorbed or wasted by the ministers or courtiers , who long kept King Edward all but penniless . Gaspar Schetz had the ...
... sent over to Antwerp to help to appease the impatience of the king's creditors , or to procure more money to be absorbed or wasted by the ministers or courtiers , who long kept King Edward all but penniless . Gaspar Schetz had the ...
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... sent to the scaffold by the Duke of Northumberland , Master Thomas transferred his devotion to the new pro- tector , and continued to flourish under him . After much toil Gresham got Northumberland to agree to a plan of punctual payment ...
... sent to the scaffold by the Duke of Northumberland , Master Thomas transferred his devotion to the new pro- tector , and continued to flourish under him . After much toil Gresham got Northumberland to agree to a plan of punctual payment ...
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Page 55 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 122 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 122 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 70 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Page 44 - I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a...
Page 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 37 - 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....
Page 108 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 40 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and, in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.
Page 123 - Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring, Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing. Of this we will sup free, but moderately, And we will have no Pooly', or Parrot by ; Nor shall our cups make any guilty men : But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word, That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning ; or affright The liberty, that we'll enjoy to-night.