Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding CenturiesT. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, successors to Mr. Cadell, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... CHARLES THE BOLD , DUKE OF BURGUNDY . THIS Prince having met with very great refiftance as he was befieging the town of Nefle , in Picardy , as foon as it was furrendered to him , ordered the inhabitants to be put to the fword , the ...
... CHARLES THE BOLD , DUKE OF BURGUNDY . THIS Prince having met with very great refiftance as he was befieging the town of Nefle , in Picardy , as foon as it was furrendered to him , ordered the inhabitants to be put to the fword , the ...
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... Charles the Fifth was so pleased with Comines ' Hiftory , that he used to take it with him whenever he travelled , and feemed to feel the force of another obfervation of this hiftorian : God , " fays he , " God , " fays he , " cannot ...
... Charles the Fifth was so pleased with Comines ' Hiftory , that he used to take it with him whenever he travelled , and feemed to feel the force of another obfervation of this hiftorian : God , " fays he , " God , " fays he , " cannot ...
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... CHARLES BRANDON , DUKE OF SUFFOLK . THE following account of this Princess is taken from a Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Auftria , " MADAME , " Londres , Juin 20 , 1514 . " JE vous ay riens vouloir efcrire de Madame la ...
... CHARLES BRANDON , DUKE OF SUFFOLK . THE following account of this Princess is taken from a Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Auftria , " MADAME , " Londres , Juin 20 , 1514 . " JE vous ay riens vouloir efcrire de Madame la ...
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... Charles the Fifth told Sir Thomas Ellyot , " If I had been " mafter of fuch a fervant , of whofe doings our- " felves have had thefe many years no small expe- " rience , we would rather have loft the best citie " of our dominions than ...
... Charles the Fifth told Sir Thomas Ellyot , " If I had been " mafter of fuch a fervant , of whofe doings our- " felves have had thefe many years no small expe- " rience , we would rather have loft the best citie " of our dominions than ...
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... CHARLES THE FIFTH He ufed to fay of languages , " Autant de langues " qu'on fait , autant de fois on eft homme . " had fo little faith in Hiftorians , that when he had occafion to fend for Sleidan's History , he used to fay , " Bring me ...
... CHARLES THE FIFTH He ufed to fay of languages , " Autant de langues " qu'on fait , autant de fois on eft homme . " had fo little faith in Hiftorians , that when he had occafion to fend for Sleidan's History , he used to fay , " Bring me ...
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Page 195 - House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable,...
Page 195 - ... at the latter end of the day, finding me ever incorrigible, and having some inducements to suspect me a tamperer, he was sufficiently rigid. The first time that ever I took notice of him was in the very beginning of the Parliament held in November 1640, when I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman ; for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled,...
Page 150 - God to preserve his Majesty with long life and happy years ; he stroked me on the cheek, and said, ' Child, if God pleaseth, it shall be so...
Page 145 - Men are not troubled to hear a man dispraised, because they know, though he be naught, there is worth in others. But women are mightily troubled to hear any of them spoken against, as if the sex itself were guilty of some unworthiness.
Page 30 - Julio the second only excepted ; and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and, to the most complex, gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Page 151 - So as I have heard him entertain a country lord in the proper terms relating to hawks and dogs, and at another time outcant a London chirurgeon.
Page 161 - ... with. He offered to speak, but was commanded to be gone without a word. In the outer room, James Maxwell required him, as prisoner, to deliver his sword. When he had got it, he cries with a loud voice, for his man to carry my lord lieutenant's sword.
Page 160 - Ireland (Strafford) came but on Monday to town, late; on Tuesday, rested ; on Wednesday came to Parliament ; but, ere night, he was caged. Intolerable pride and oppression cry to Heaven for vengeance.
Page 138 - And therefore proposed, that immediately, whilst the house was sitting, a small committee might be appointed, who, dividing themselves into the number of two and two, might visit all the judges, and ask them apart, in the name of the house, what messages the lord Finch, when he was chief justice of the court of common pleas, had brought to them from the king in the business of ship-money, and whether he had not solicited them to give judgment for the king in that case.
Page 88 - He was a pretty good logician ; he understood natural philosophy and music, and played upon the lute. The good and the learned had formed the highest expectations of him, from the sweetness of his disposition, and the excellence of his talents. He had begun to favour learning before he was a great scholar himself, and to be acquainted with it before he could make use of it. Alas \ how prophetically did he once repeat to me, ' Immodicis brevis est aetas, et rara senectus'.