Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... creation . * The Lytteltons gallantly supported the royal cause in the days of the Stuarts , both in purse and in person ; and one of the squires of Frankley was within the walls of Colchester Castle when it was besieged by the ...
... creation . * The Lytteltons gallantly supported the royal cause in the days of the Stuarts , both in purse and in person ; and one of the squires of Frankley was within the walls of Colchester Castle when it was besieged by the ...
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... some time British Minister at Lisbon , who had been created an Irish peer by the title of Lord Westcote , and in 1794 obtained in his own favour a fresh peerage patent as Lord Lyttelton in the peerage LORD LYTTELTON'S GHOST . 11.
... some time British Minister at Lisbon , who had been created an Irish peer by the title of Lord Westcote , and in 1794 obtained in his own favour a fresh peerage patent as Lord Lyttelton in the peerage LORD LYTTELTON'S GHOST . 11.
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... creation , which is indorsed in his Lordship's handwriting , " Remarkable Dream and Circumstances attending the Death of Thomas Lord Lyttelton . " " On Thursday , the 25th of November , 1779 , Thomas Lord Lyttelton , when he came to ...
... creation , which is indorsed in his Lordship's handwriting , " Remarkable Dream and Circumstances attending the Death of Thomas Lord Lyttelton . " " On Thursday , the 25th of November , 1779 , Thomas Lord Lyttelton , when he came to ...
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... created in 1718 Duke of Wharton . " If , " observes a writer in the English Cyclopedia , " we should pray instead for King George , which he accordingly did : so you see that Whigs of all ages are made in the same way . " * A letter ...
... created in 1718 Duke of Wharton . " If , " observes a writer in the English Cyclopedia , " we should pray instead for King George , which he accordingly did : so you see that Whigs of all ages are made in the same way . " * A letter ...
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... creation of an English dukedom on record ; and perhaps it may be regarded also as the most singular passage even in Wharton's remarkable career . Notwith- standing the practice which then prevailed of conferring that diguity with much ...
... creation of an English dukedom on record ; and perhaps it may be regarded also as the most singular passage even in Wharton's remarkable career . Notwith- standing the practice which then prevailed of conferring that diguity with much ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...