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Author: Edmund Lodge Publisher: 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: 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: 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 Publisher: 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 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: 9780267922505 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 6 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions This brave, accomplished, and magnificent nobleman was the eldest son and heir of Sir Charles Cavendish, next and younger brother to the first Earl of Devonshire Of the family, by Catharine, second Of the two daughters and coheirs of Cuth bert, last Lord Ogle of his surname. He was born in the year 1592, and is said to have received under his paternal roof an education which, though by no means deficient in the ordi nary scholastic studies, was peculiarly calculated to inspire him with a taste for polite literature, and to ground him in that long variety of nameless elegancies of mind and carriage which adorn courts, and grace private society. Thus quali fied, he was presented to James the First, and at the age of eighteen was one Of the Knights of the Bath appointed on the creation of Henry, Prince of Wales. He now became one Of the most familiar attendants on the royal family, but a generous indifference, or a love of independence, kept him disengaged from any of those offices of Specific employment which the degree of royal favour that he enjoyed might have insured to him. In 1617 he succeeded, on the death of his father, to the possession Of a noble estate, and on the third of November, 1620, was raised to the Peerage, by the titles of Lord, Ogle and Viscount Mansfield, the former of which might be considered as a mere anticipation, Since he stood at that time in a certainty of the inheritance Of the ancient Barony, to which he afterwards succeeded. 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: 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 Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528286275 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 436
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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 7 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memories of Their Lives and Actions This nobleman was now, very deservedly, one of the first objects of the gratitude of the new rulers. On the fourteenth of February, 1689, he was sworn oftheir Privy Council; was immediately after appointed Lord Steward of the Royal Household; and, on the third of April following, received the Order of the Carter. The station of Lord Lieutenant of the county of Derby, of which he had been deprived by Charles the Second, was also restored to him the proceedings against him on the affair of Colepeper were reversed by Parliament, and voted a high breach of privilege; and the judges who had pronounced the sentence of fine and imprisonment were called8 william cavendish, first duke OF devonshire. 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: Lodge Edmund Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781314332971 Category : Languages : en Pages : 442
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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