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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קטעים בולטים
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 61 - 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 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 ix - 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 90 - 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 91 - 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.
עמוד 105 - I was told that he was one of gallantest men in the world, as having killed eight or nine men in single fight, and that for this reason the Ladies made so much of him, it being the manner of all French women to cherish gallant men, as thinking they could not make so much of any else with the safety of their honour.
עמוד 41 - I passed my time till I came to the age of one-and-twenty, having in that space divers children, I having now none remaining but Beatrice, Richard, and Edward. During this time of living in the university or at home, I did without any master or teacher attain the knowledge of the French, Italian, and Spanish languages, by the help of some books in Latin or English translated into those idioms, and the dictionaries of those several languages ; I attained also to sing my part at first sight in music,...
עמוד 313 - The rest of her character may be read in his printed poems, in that elegy which bears the name of ' The Autumnal Beauty ; ' for both he and she were then past the meridian of man's life.
עמוד 4 - Montgomeryshire, for the suppressing of whom he went often both day and night to the places where they were; concerning which, though many particulars have been told me, I shall mention one only. Some outlaws being lodged in an alehouse upon the hills of Llandinam, my grandfather and a few servants coming to apprehend them, the principal outlaw shot an arrow against my grandfather, which stuck in the pummel of his saddle; whereupon my grandfather coming up to him with his sword in his hand, and taking...