Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Edmund Lodge
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ISBN: 9781330924815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 1 In imparting to the public, five years since, the design of this great work, and the character with which it was proposed to invest it, the author took the liberty to offer some remarks of a general nature, the substance of which it may perhaps be necessary, at all events cannot be improper, to recapitulate in this place. "It is needless," he observed, "to descant largely on the extended information and delight which we derive from the multiplication of portraits by engraving, or on the more important advantages resulting from the study of biography. Separately considered, the one affords an amusement not less innocent than elegant; inculcates the rudiments, or aids the progress, of taste; and rescues from the hand of time the perishable monuments raised by the pencil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
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ISBN: 9781331154860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 1 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions The object of the Publisher in undertaking this entirely new and unprecedentedly cheap edition of a splendid and justly celebrated Work, is to produce it in such a shape as shall be accessible to all whose means have hitherto precluded them from forming an acquaintance with it in more expensive forms: but in effecting this end, none of the merits of the original edition, size alone excepted, will be sacrificed; while on the other hand, the diminution of bulk will, by rendering the work more portable, increase its value with those who in their wanderings love the companionship of a favourite Author, or who, when visiting the old halls and castles where hang the originals of the Portraits adorning the pages of Lodge, desire to satisfy themselves of the Engraver's fidelity. It is probable that the "Cabinet Edition" may become known to many who have hitherto been unaware of the nature or merits of the work, and to others who, knowing it by name only, or from a cursory inspection of the prints, may have regarded it as a mere collection of splendid engravings, to which the "letter-press" was attached more for form than use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428969127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions They commenced by delivering to her a letter from her brother, which she knelt to receive, and kissed. 1 kiss it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
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ISBN: 9781331035077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 8 of 8 This able intrepid commander was the only son of Edward Hawke, Esq., a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Bladen, Esq., and widow of Colonel Ruthven. He was born in 1705; entered the Navy at an early age; and passed, by regular but not rapid gradations, to the rank of captain in the year 1734, when he commanded his Majesty's ship the Flamborough. Although constantly employed, he found no opportunity of distinguishing himself until the memorable engagement in which Admirals Matthews, Lestock, and Rowley, commanded the British force against the combined fleets of France and Spain off Toulon. The personal animosity of the commanders, and the want of co-operation which it occasioned, thwarted the result which might have been reasonably expected from the battle. In the disgrace which was that day brought upon the fame of England Captain Hawke had no share. The Captain of El Poder, a Spanish sixty-gun ship of the line, had gallantly engaged the Princesa and Somerset, which, though each of superior force, were compelled to quit the line. Captain Hawke, who then commanded the Berwick, of seventy-four guns, observing their danger, broke the line, bore down upon their assailants, and, after a sharp conflict, the Poder was compelled to strike, and Captain Hawke sent a Lieutenant and twenty-three men to take possession of her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656477692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 5 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions He fled to Holland so nearly at the time when Hamilton was beheaded in London, which was on the sixth of March. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365356424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 5 Was the representative, through a double illegitimacy too splendid to reflect disgrace, of the great House of Beaufort, descended from John of Gaunt. So little has been said of him by our historians and biographers that, were it not for the intel ligence communicated by his own original letters, many of which I published some years since, we should be at a loss to form any just judgement of his character. We learn from those faithful records that he possessed not only a powerful and richly culti vated understanding, decorated by infinite politeness, but a fami liar and easy nature, and a vivacity of temper, at once too frank and too delicate for the imperfect taste of the Court in which he flourished. With this sanguine-disposition however, and in the possession of those almost unlimited powers of self gratification which exalted rank and great wealth at that time conferred, his moral conduct was\without reproach; and we need no better evidence of the innocence of one who stood so fair a mark for envy than the silence of detraction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
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ISBN: 9781290344159
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358411014
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Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332804002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 9 The ingenious biographer, Granger, has arranged his multitu dinous subjects under various descriptive denominations, and we find among them a class of Persons remarkable from a single circumstance in their lives. In this class Lord Russell, had he not belonged to that of the nobility, would have been properly placed. The story of his life is nearly destitute of those circum stances which usually excite a lasting general interest, for what fame is so transient as that of a political partisan? But the termi nation of it furnishes one of the most remarkable authentic instances extant of that pure and perfect heroism which in the legends of antiquity generally excites our doubts, as well as our admiration. For the rest, Lord Russell was one of many engaged in a conspiracy of which he was not even the leader: a nobleman of honest nature, who had been unhappily led to lend his great name to a faction headed by the worst man in the kingdom a victim to that too exquisite and mistaken sense of honour and fidelity which alone can attach the virtuous to the worthless. All this, unfortunately, is too common to claim justly any unusual degree of attention; but Lord Russell prepared for death, and suffered it with the firmness of a stoic, and the resignation of a saint. Had he escaped it, his name would have been barely noticed on the page of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edmund Lodge
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ISBN: 9781406920345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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