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... Knight fit for command , and crowned his high birth , with virtue , wisdom , and sweetness of behaviour . Also remembering his hereditary right to the office of Lord High Chamberlain of England , devolved upon him from Robert de Vere ...
... Knight fit for command , and crowned his high birth , with virtue , wisdom , and sweetness of behaviour . Also remembering his hereditary right to the office of Lord High Chamberlain of England , devolved upon him from Robert de Vere ...
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... Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. married Ursula , daughter and heir of Sir Edward Lawley of Wenlock , in the county of Salop , Knight , and dying October 15th 1654 , left a son Robert , who died in August 1698 ...
... Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. married Ursula , daughter and heir of Sir Edward Lawley of Wenlock , in the county of Salop , Knight , and dying October 15th 1654 , left a son Robert , who died in August 1698 ...
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... Knight , and died 28th February 1683 . Third , Anne , who died unmarried , and was buried in St. Michael's chapel in Westminster Abbey , March 22d , 1660 . Fourth , Sophia , wedded to Sir Richard Chaworth , Knight , LL . D. she died ...
... Knight , and died 28th February 1683 . Third , Anne , who died unmarried , and was buried in St. Michael's chapel in Westminster Abbey , March 22d , 1660 . Fourth , Sophia , wedded to Sir Richard Chaworth , Knight , LL . D. she died ...
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... Knight of the most noble order of the Garter , h at a chapter held at White- hall , April 1st , 1661 ; and was ... Knights of the Garter , MS . Ibid . P 47 . VOL . II . Majesty's return , would in all men's eyes look like DUKE OF ...
... Knight of the most noble order of the Garter , h at a chapter held at White- hall , April 1st , 1661 ; and was ... Knights of the Garter , MS . Ibid . P 47 . VOL . II . Majesty's return , would in all men's eyes look like DUKE OF ...
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... Knight of the Garter with the rest ; and coming afterwards to hear by what chance it was , he ever lived with great civility towards the Chancellor to his death . " sure . At the King's coronation , exhibiting his claim , for the ex ...
... Knight of the Garter with the rest ; and coming afterwards to hear by what chance it was , he ever lived with great civility towards the Chancellor to his death . " sure . At the King's coronation , exhibiting his claim , for the ex ...
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Page 417 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 475 - In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit; and (where his passions were not concernedl of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating a judgment.
Page 464 - Commonwealth man, and was one of the knights of the shire for the county of Northampton, in 1656 ; he was also of Cromwell's council, chamberlain of the court, and high steward of Westminster.
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Page 416 - Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a , first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Page 474 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
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Page 154 - ... concerning the terms whereon we should fight, as also the place. To our seconds we gave power for their appointments, who agreed we should go to Antwerp, from thence to Bergen-op-Zoom, where in the mid-way but a village divides the States' territories from the archduke's. And there was the destined stage, to the end that having ended, he that could, might presently exempt himself from the justice of the country, by retiring into the dominion not offended. It was...
Page 475 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...
Page 475 - For failings he had undoubtedly - many of us remember them; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for Fame; a passion which is 1 There is an implicit contrast here with Burke's own parliamentary style and how Parliament sometimes received it. the instinct of all great souls.