The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Under King Charles II, and King James II: The Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and Afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II : and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles IIColburn, 1826 - Businessmen |
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Page iv
... writer , the Hon . Roger North , enjoyed the most ample means of informing himself accurately upon all the topics of the day , not only from the sta- tion in society which he occupied himself , but from his intimate connexion with the ...
... writer , the Hon . Roger North , enjoyed the most ample means of informing himself accurately upon all the topics of the day , not only from the sta- tion in society which he occupied himself , but from his intimate connexion with the ...
Page vi
... writer , are yet , in many in- stances , striking and admirable likenesses . Of Jefferies ( to whom no epithet can be applied suf- ficiently descriptive of his base and brutal nature ) a greater number of characteristic anecdotes are ...
... writer , are yet , in many in- stances , striking and admirable likenesses . Of Jefferies ( to whom no epithet can be applied suf- ficiently descriptive of his base and brutal nature ) a greater number of characteristic anecdotes are ...
Page ix
... writer of our own day , to whose works a reference will be found in the following pages . The Memoir of Dr. John North , with which the present volumes conclude , though it does not possess either that value , as a work of history ...
... writer of our own day , to whose works a reference will be found in the following pages . The Memoir of Dr. John North , with which the present volumes conclude , though it does not possess either that value , as a work of history ...
Page x
... writer seemed , to the editor , to render some explanatory notes absolutely necessary . To these he has likewise added such occasional illustra- tions , of an historical and biographical character , as , it appeared to him , might ...
... writer seemed , to the editor , to render some explanatory notes absolutely necessary . To these he has likewise added such occasional illustra- tions , of an historical and biographical character , as , it appeared to him , might ...
Page xii
... writer has succeeded in his attempt to discharge it , must be left to the determination of those who shall peruse this work . And the same arguments ought to be no less prevalent with me towards the sending it abroad into the world ...
... writer has succeeded in his attempt to discharge it , must be left to the determination of those who shall peruse this work . And the same arguments ought to be no less prevalent with me towards the sending it abroad into the world ...
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