...CONTRADICTORY SPIRIT. GEORGE DIGBY, Earl of Bristol, was a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against Popery and embraced it ; he was a...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Stafford ; and was most unconsciously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always hurt...

...following play. He was, as Mr Walpole 1 observes, " a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against Popery, and embraced it ; he was...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Straftbrd, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. "With great parts, he always...

...— Continuation of his Life, p. 208. Lord Orford says of him, that " his life was one contradiction. He 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...

...going about, and sitting up to write. 19th October. I went to London to visit my Lord of Bristol,1 having been with Sir John Denham (his Majesty's surveyor)...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Stratford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always...

...distinguished himself by gaining an important victory. Walpole, who notices him as an author, says "he wrote against popery and embraced it. He was a...converted in the midst of his prosecution of lord Straflbrd, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always...

...distinguished himself by gaining an important victory. Walpole, who notices him as an author, says "he wrote against popery and embraced it. He was a...conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of I ord Straflbrd, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he...

...described Digby's character in the following words : ' A singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery, and embraced it ; he was...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Stratford, and was most unconscientiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always...

...exposed him." Horace Walpole says of him " He was a singular person whose life was оно contradiction. He wrote against Popery and embraced it ; he was a...converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Straftbrd and was most imconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always...

...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...

...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...