 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1888 - 484 pages
...Horace Walpole has smartly described Digby's character in the following words : ' A singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Stratford, and was most unconscientiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1889 - 468 pages
...transited, and exposed him." Horace Walpole says of him " He was a singular person whose life was оно contradiction. He wrote against Popery and embraced...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Straftbrd and was most imconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always... | |
 | Jerusha D. Richardson ("Mrs. Aubrey Richardson.") - Great Britain - 1899 - 522 pages
...who " wrote against Popery and embraced it; ... was a zealous opposer of the Court and a sacrifice to it; was conscientiously converted in the midst of...unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon," gives us a key to the right reading of the character of his daughter. She has been in all periods diversely... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 466 pages
...speeches and letters he was the author of " Elvira," a comedy, 1667. Horace Walpole has said of him: " He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a...of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always hurt himself and hia friends; with romantic... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1903 - 354 pages
...meetings and jollities as he was pleased with." Horace Walpole says of him : " He was a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against...was a zealous opposer of the court, and a. sacrifice to it ; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strarford, and was most... | |
 | Genealogy - 1904 - 284 pages
...DUKE OF BEDFORD. l From tht fiftim by l'an Dyck.) GEORGE DIGBY, EARL OF BRISTOL 'A SINGULAR person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against...conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...speeches and letters he was the author of " Elvira," a comedy, 1667. Horace Walpole has said of him: "He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was...of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconsclentiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always hurt himself and hia friends;... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 500 pages
...George Digby, second Earl of Bristol, 1612-77. Horace Walpole thus smartly sums up his character : " He wrote against Popery, and embraced it; he was a...converted in the midst of his prosecution of lord Stratford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1906 - 636 pages
...Gramont's account (Clarendon's Continuation, p. 208). In his Royal and Ab6/e Authors, Walpole says : " His life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery...was a zealous opposer of the Court and a sacrifice to it. ... With great parts he always hurt himself and his friends ; with romantic bravery he was always... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1908 - 376 pages
...with." Horace Walpole says of him : " He was a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He 271 wrote against popery, and embraced it ; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice to it; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most... | |
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Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends. With romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the Test Act, though a Roman Catholic ; and... 
