The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 20H. Milford, 1917 |
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Page 123 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Page 323 - I, James, am neither a god nor an angel but a man like any other. Therefore I act like a man, and confess to loving those dear to me more than other men. You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else, and more than you who are here assembled.
Page 117 - Peter also besought him humbly to consider his youth, and short experience in the things of God, and to beware of peremptory conclusions, which he perceived him to be very apt unto.
Page 33 - I have you to think any inequality of person between us, I being issued of as great a race and noble house (every way) as yourself. So, assigning me an indifferent place, I will there maintain my words and the lie which I gave you, and which you should not endure if you have any courage at all in you.
Page 217 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.
Page 306 - Queen's arrivall, the King was there; but there was no fire at her door, though at all the rest of the doors almost in the street; which was much observed: and that the King and she did send for a pair of scales and weighed one another; and she, being with child, was said to be heaviest. But she is now a most disconsolate creature, and comes not out of doors, since the King's going. But we went to the Theatre to "The French Dancing Master...
Page 117 - Perplexity try," having received " letters from his friends in England, which necessarily required his presence there." In answer to the dissuasive considerations which were urged, "the Governor brake forth into tears, and professed that, howsoever the causes propounded for his departure were such as did concern the utter ruin of his outward estate, yet he would rather have hazarded all than have gone from them at this time, if something else had not pressed him more; viz. the inevitable danger of...
Page 316 - That the house do now resolve itself into a committee of the whole house for the purpose of taking into consideration the...
Page 460 - He received a medal with three clasps for Fuentes d'Onor, Badajoz, and Nivelle. He was also nominated a Knight of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword, and in 1831 a KCB, and a Knight of the Crescent for his serDEATHS.— OCT.
Page 120 - Presbytery," urged Ashburnham, "shall be so strongly insisted upon as that there can be no peace without it, you shall certainly have all the power my master can make to join with you in rooting out of this kingdom that tyrannical government, with this condition, that my master may not have his conscience disturbed — yours being free — when that work is finished.