The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of CherburyJ. C. Nimmo, 1886 - 369 עמודים |
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עמוד xvii
... returned home , only to set out again on another expedition in the Low Countries , where there was a prospect of war . The town of Juliers was to be besieged by Dutch , French , and English troops . No command was offered Herbert , and ...
... returned home , only to set out again on another expedition in the Low Countries , where there was a prospect of war . The town of Juliers was to be besieged by Dutch , French , and English troops . No command was offered Herbert , and ...
עמוד xxiv
... returned to the French court , and remained there till the early months of 1624 , when he was suddenly and permanently recalled . In the closing years of his embassy Herbert showed himself to real advantage ; he used all his influence ...
... returned to the French court , and remained there till the early months of 1624 , when he was suddenly and permanently recalled . In the closing years of his embassy Herbert showed himself to real advantage ; he used all his influence ...
עמוד xxvii
... returned the compliment in the following : — " If men get name for some one virtue , then What man art thou , that art so many men , All - virtuous Herbert ! on whose every part Truth might spend all her voice , fame all her art ? For ...
... returned the compliment in the following : — " If men get name for some one virtue , then What man art thou , that art so many men , All - virtuous Herbert ! on whose every part Truth might spend all her voice , fame all her art ? For ...
עמוד lxv
... returned it , but it was found many years later in an illegible state at Lady Herbert's house , Lymore , Montgomeryshire , and was apparently destroyed . The second copy was sold with Sir Henry's estate at Ribbisford , but the owner ...
... returned it , but it was found many years later in an illegible state at Lady Herbert's house , Lymore , Montgomeryshire , and was apparently destroyed . The second copy was sold with Sir Henry's estate at Ribbisford , but the owner ...
עמוד 4
... returned , my father desisted from prosecuting the business any farther in that kind , and attained , notwithstanding the said hurt , that health and strength , that he returned to his former exercises in a country life , and became the ...
... returned , my father desisted from prosecuting the business any farther in that kind , and attained , notwithstanding the said hurt , that health and strength , that he returned to his former exercises in a country life , and became the ...
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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.