 I desired you some time since to read lord Clarendon's History of the civil wars. I have lately read a much honester and more instructive book, of the same period of history; it is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May,* esq., &c. I will send it...  Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt - Page 59by William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804Full view - About this book
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1804 - 154 pages
...and habitually to fix matter in the memory. I desired you some time since to read Lord Clarendon•s History of the civil wars. I have lately read a much...of the Parliament, by Thomas May,* Esq. &c. I will . .• > i, • - " * May, the translator of Lucan, had been touch countenanced by Charles the First,... | |
 | Education, George Nicholson - Education - 1805 - 276 pages
...and striking. 1 desired you some time since to read Lord CL ARE N DON'S History oj the civil u.ars. I have lately read a much honester and more instructive...the History of the Parliament, by THOMAS MAY, esq. If you have not read Bu RN ET'S History nj his own Times, I beg you will. I suppose you are going through... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1805 - 154 pages
...head what you read, and by / so doing frequently and habitually to fix matter in the memory. I desired you some time since to read Lord Clarendon's History of the civil wars. I have lately read a much hon ester and more instructive book, of the same period of history; it is the History of the Parliament,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1810 - 148 pages
...head what you read, and by so doing frequently and habitually to fix matter in the memory. I desired you some time since to read Lord Clarendon's History...the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May,* Esq. 8cc. I will send it to * May, the translator of Lucan, had been much countenanced by Charles the First,... | |
 | Thomas May - Great Britain - 1812 - 560 pages
...was dated on the 5th of September, 1754. The passage containing it is in these words : " I desired you, some time since, to read Lord Clarendon's History...is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas " May, Esquire. I will send it to you as soon as you return to Cambridge." These passages of the Letters of... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...head what yon read, and by so doing frequently and hahitually to fix matter in the memory. I desired you some time since to read lord Clarendon's History...is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May*, esq.&c. I will send it to you as soon as you return to Cambridge. If you have not read Burnet's History... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...nephew, afterwards Lord Camelford, then a young man, and a student at Cambridge. He says, " I desired you some time since to read Lord Clarendon's History...much honester and more instructive book of the same B « period of history : it is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May, Esq." But Lord Clarendon,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...letters to his nephew, Lord Camelford, -(Letter ix. p. 59.) " I desired you some time since to read Clarendon's History of the Civil Wars. I have lately read a much honester and more instructive book : it is the History of the Parliament by Thomas May, Esq." The noble editor of Lord Chatham's Letters,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1824 - 982 pages
...THOMAS MAY ; whose History of the Long Parliament, 1647, folio, is pronounced, by Lord Chatham " to he a much honester and more instructive book of the same period of history, than Lord Clarendon's."* Records, magnificently bound by C. Lewis, in blue morocco. Mr. Grenville's... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...commendation from the Earl of Chatham ; thus expressed to his nephew Lord Camelford, in 1754. " I desired you, some time since, to read Lord Clarendon's History...the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May, Esq. I will send it to you as soon as you return to Cambridge." Ibid. px * Here is another blank in the... | |
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