The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of CherburyJ. C. Nimmo, 1886 - 369 עמודים |
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עמוד xii
... give an impartial estimate of himself ; failure is only courted by attempting it , and success in autobiography is not attain- able unless this condition receive practical recogni- tion . But although " vain opinions , flattering hopes ...
... give an impartial estimate of himself ; failure is only courted by attempting it , and success in autobiography is not attain- able unless this condition receive practical recogni- tion . But although " vain opinions , flattering hopes ...
עמוד xiii
... gives his book almost all its value . Men of solid mental ability and achievements occasionally like to pose in society as gay Lotharios ; it is rare , Lord however , for them to endeavour , even as auto- Introduction . xiii.
... gives his book almost all its value . Men of solid mental ability and achievements occasionally like to pose in society as gay Lotharios ; it is rare , Lord however , for them to endeavour , even as auto- Introduction . xiii.
עמוד xiv
... give autobiography its finest flavour . Lord Herbert professes " to relate to his pos- terity those passages of his life which he conceives may best declare him and be most useful to them . " He asserts that he writes " with all truth ...
... give autobiography its finest flavour . Lord Herbert professes " to relate to his pos- terity those passages of his life which he conceives may best declare him and be most useful to them . " He asserts that he writes " with all truth ...
עמוד xxvi
... gives no hint of the relationship . Other kindly protectors fare no better at his hands . Donne , his mother's friend and his own counsellor throughout his youth , is 1 See p . 17 . barely mentioned.1 Sir George More of Losely , who ...
... gives no hint of the relationship . Other kindly protectors fare no better at his hands . Donne , his mother's friend and his own counsellor throughout his youth , is 1 See p . 17 . barely mentioned.1 Sir George More of Losely , who ...
עמוד xxxv
... gives two or three passing hints in his autobiography that he had in his leisure moments dabbled in philosophy , but it is so difficult and so dangerous to take him seriously in his memoirs , that the reader who confines himself to that ...
... gives two or three passing hints in his autobiography that he had in his leisure moments dabbled in philosophy , but it is so difficult and so dangerous to take him seriously in his memoirs , that the reader who confines himself to that ...
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עמוד 247 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
עמוד 313 - ... and so much under her own eye, as to see and converse with him daily; but she managed this power over him without any such rigid sourness as might make her company a torment to her child ; but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth as did incline him willingly to spend much of his time in the company of his dear and careful mother ; which was to her great content...
עמוד 63 - Certainly in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior: for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.
עמוד 246 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words : " O thou eternal God, author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy...
עמוד xi - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...
עמוד 92 - Passing two or three days here, it happened one evening, that a daughter of the Duchess, of about ten or eleven years of age, going one evening from the castle to walk in the meadows, myself, with divers French gentlemen, attended her and some gentlewomen that were with her. This young lady wearing a knot of ribband on her head, a French chevalier took it suddenly, and fastened it to his hatband. The young lady, offended herewith, demands her...
עמוד 93 - French cavalier, checked him well for his sauciness, in taking the ribbon away from his grandchild, and afterwards bid him depart his house ; and this was all that I ever heard of the gentleman, with whom I proceeded in that manner, because I thought myself obliged thereunto by the oath taken when I was made Knight of the Bath, as I formerly related upon this occasion.