The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North: Together with the Autobiography of the Author, Volume 11890 |
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... history of the time with which they are concerned , has become more than ever recognized . It had long been known that Roger North had left a considerable fragment of an autobiography in his own handwriting , and that this had once been ...
... history of the time with which they are concerned , has become more than ever recognized . It had long been known that Roger North had left a considerable fragment of an autobiography in his own handwriting , and that this had once been ...
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... history , and by those to whom Roger North is now known only by name as a charming writer with a style of his own , but a writer whose works are accessible to but a comparatively small circle of admirers . Most of Mr. Roscoe's notes ...
... history , and by those to whom Roger North is now known only by name as a charming writer with a style of his own , but a writer whose works are accessible to but a comparatively small circle of admirers . Most of Mr. Roscoe's notes ...
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... history , and the public good flowing from thence , had ever the greatest share in his inducements , whenever he set pen to paper ; yet here there must be something put to the account of gratitude . And how large a debt of this nature ...
... history , and the public good flowing from thence , had ever the greatest share in his inducements , whenever he set pen to paper ; yet here there must be something put to the account of gratitude . And how large a debt of this nature ...
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... history , all is the same . There is a two - handed one , Mr. Echard , in folio , whose excellency is coming after a worse . The author , among his eulogies , could not find room to drop a good word of any of these , though he hath ...
... history , all is the same . There is a two - handed one , Mr. Echard , in folio , whose excellency is coming after a worse . The author , among his eulogies , could not find room to drop a good word of any of these , though he hath ...
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... history as the fact ; and so for infamy . It is justice , as well his- torical as civil , to give to every one his due . And whoever engageth in such designs as these , and governs himself by other measures , may be a chronographer ...
... history as the fact ; and so for infamy . It is justice , as well his- torical as civil , to give to every one his due . And whoever engageth in such designs as these , and governs himself by other measures , may be a chronographer ...
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LIVES OF THE RIGHT HON FRANCIS Roger 1653-1734 North,Augustus 1823-1914 Jessopp No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 286 - When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place. He took a pleasure in mortifying fraudulent attorneys, and would deal forth his severities with a sort of majesty. He had extraordinary natural abilities, but little acquired beyond what practice in affairs had supplied. He talked fluently and with spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as...