The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of CherburyJ. C. Nimmo, 1886 - 369 עמודים |
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עמוד xiv
... honour . " No worthier object could he have proposed to himself in his declining years ; yet so easily are autobiographers diverted from their avowed purposes , that with the excep- tion of the notices of his very early life and a ...
... honour . " No worthier object could he have proposed to himself in his declining years ; yet so easily are autobiographers diverted from their avowed purposes , that with the excep- tion of the notices of his very early life and a ...
עמוד xviii
... honour was wounded by a Frenchman's taunt that he had not demanded satisfaction of Lord Howard . He therefore sent him a challenge , and the duel would have been fought had not the principals been arrested before they met , and the ...
... honour was wounded by a Frenchman's taunt that he had not demanded satisfaction of Lord Howard . He therefore sent him a challenge , and the duel would have been fought had not the principals been arrested before they met , and the ...
עמוד xxxi
... honours of the time - an Irish and an English peerage . Buckingham's murder practically deprived Herbert of all hold on the court , and with charac- teristic versatility he laboured for his end through new channels . He set himself to ...
... honours of the time - an Irish and an English peerage . Buckingham's murder practically deprived Herbert of all hold on the court , and with charac- teristic versatility he laboured for his end through new channels . He set himself to ...
עמוד xxxiii
... honour , and clearly had a poor opinion of those who re- versed the process . He showed some sense of parental responsibility in making before his death . pecuniary provision for his children . His theo- retical devotion to military ...
... honour , and clearly had a poor opinion of those who re- versed the process . He showed some sense of parental responsibility in making before his death . pecuniary provision for his children . His theo- retical devotion to military ...
עמוד xxxiv
... honour , love , obedience , troops of friends , " and in their stead came curses both loud and deep . It was overlooked that he was a vain- glorious man , disappointed , through little fault of his own , of the worldly successes he ...
... honour , love , obedience , troops of friends , " and in their stead came curses both loud and deep . It was overlooked that he was a vain- glorious man , disappointed , through little fault of his own , of the worldly successes he ...
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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.