Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin]. |
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Arthur Thomas Malkin. DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . VOLUME II . COMMITTEE . Chairman - The Right Hon . LORD BROUGHAM.
Arthur Thomas Malkin. DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . VOLUME II . COMMITTEE . Chairman - The Right Hon . LORD BROUGHAM.
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... Lord Nugent . Wm . Smith O'Brien , Esq . , M.P. The Right Hon . Sir Henry Parnell , Bt . , M.P. Dr. Roget , Sec . R.S. , F.R.A.S. Edward Romilly , Esq . , A.M. The Right Hon . Lord John Russell , M.P. Sir M. A. Shee , P.R.A. , F.R.S. ...
... Lord Nugent . Wm . Smith O'Brien , Esq . , M.P. The Right Hon . Sir Henry Parnell , Bt . , M.P. Dr. Roget , Sec . R.S. , F.R.A.S. Edward Romilly , Esq . , A.M. The Right Hon . Lord John Russell , M.P. Sir M. A. Shee , P.R.A. , F.R.S. ...
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... THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . II . LORD BACON TO LEIBNITZ . LONDON : CHARLES KNIGHT & Co. , LUDGATE STREET . MDCCCXXXVIII . LONDON : Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS , Stamford.
... THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . II . LORD BACON TO LEIBNITZ . LONDON : CHARLES KNIGHT & Co. , LUDGATE STREET . MDCCCXXXVIII . LONDON : Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS , Stamford.
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... Witt 240 Moliere Clarendon Rembrandt 252 264 279. LORD BACON . Kepler Coke • Gustavus Adolphus Ben Jonson • Rubens Sully Richelieu Galileo Hampden Grotius Des Cartes Selden Blake Harvey Cromwell Pascal · Poussin Taylor CONTENTS .
... Witt 240 Moliere Clarendon Rembrandt 252 264 279. LORD BACON . Kepler Coke • Gustavus Adolphus Ben Jonson • Rubens Sully Richelieu Galileo Hampden Grotius Des Cartes Selden Blake Harvey Cromwell Pascal · Poussin Taylor CONTENTS .
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... Colbert 378 Corneille . Sydenham . Boyle Sobieski Dryden William III . Bossuet Locke Ray · 387 · 399 408 419 433 446 459 472 485 Vauban 493 Fenelon 505 Leibnitz · 516 DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . LORD BACON . AMONG vi CONTENTS .
... Colbert 378 Corneille . Sydenham . Boyle Sobieski Dryden William III . Bossuet Locke Ray · 387 · 399 408 419 433 446 459 472 485 Vauban 493 Fenelon 505 Leibnitz · 516 DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES . LORD BACON . AMONG vi CONTENTS .
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Página 60 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Página 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Página 191 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Página 56 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Página 287 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Página 55 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Página 449 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
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Página 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.