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Essays On Subjects Connected With History And Classical Learning.
was the centre of all the political negotiations of Europe . His judgment , his prudence , his address , his delicacy , are equally conspicuous in every scene of the Revolution . An event , which commenced without confusion , was conducted without bloodshed , and accomplished without violence . Though he displayed not the power or splendour of a meridian sunhe shone as the polar starto whichin
, , , preference to every other star in the firmament , the bewildered mariner looks up for protection , and on which he relies , for security . And if the testimony of an offended subject can extort our belief , 'he was renowned in the world for his steadiness to truth , justice , th * laws and liberty , his country , and the protestant reli gion . The world was filled With his famehis friends adored himand his
ene-, , mies melted before him . ' * ' There was a simplicity , an elevation , and an utility in all the actions of his life . 't ' I consider him as a person raised up by God to resist the power of France , and the progress of tyranny and persecution / I
Letters From Lord Essex To Queen Elizabeth.
LETTERS FROM LORD ESSEX TO QUEEN ELIZABETH .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . SIK , f \ F the authenticity of the following letters , I can say no mote , than that the gentleman , amongwhose papers they were found after his deathhad written on the . backs of them—that he well
, , as as many antiquarians and learned men of his acquaintance , believed them to be ori ginal . 0 s _ T ; , < FIRST LETTER . September 6 , ifeo . ' , HASTE , paper , to that happy presence , whence only unhappy I am •' banished . Kiss that fair correcting handwliich lays plasters to
, new my lighter hurtes , but to my greatest wound applyeth nothing . Say thou comest from - Pining , languishing , despairing S . X . ' SECOSD LETTER . September 9 , 1600 1
WORDES , if you can , expresse my lowly thankfullnesse , but presse not , sue nott , moane nott , least passion prompt you , and I by you both be betrayed . Report my silence , my solitariness , my sighs , but not my hopes , my feares , my desires , for myne uttermost ambition is to be a mutte person in that presence , where joy and words would banspeech , from The greatest Ladyes , in power and goodnesse ,
Humblest mutte vassal ! , a v o . .. x . * Lord Howard ' s letter lo King William . t Dalrymple .. J . Burnet .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Essays On Subjects Connected With History And Classical Learning.
was the centre of all the political negotiations of Europe . His judgment , his prudence , his address , his delicacy , are equally conspicuous in every scene of the Revolution . An event , which commenced without confusion , was conducted without bloodshed , and accomplished without violence . Though he displayed not the power or splendour of a meridian sunhe shone as the polar starto whichin
, , , preference to every other star in the firmament , the bewildered mariner looks up for protection , and on which he relies , for security . And if the testimony of an offended subject can extort our belief , 'he was renowned in the world for his steadiness to truth , justice , th * laws and liberty , his country , and the protestant reli gion . The world was filled With his famehis friends adored himand his
ene-, , mies melted before him . ' * ' There was a simplicity , an elevation , and an utility in all the actions of his life . 't ' I consider him as a person raised up by God to resist the power of France , and the progress of tyranny and persecution / I
Letters From Lord Essex To Queen Elizabeth.
LETTERS FROM LORD ESSEX TO QUEEN ELIZABETH .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . SIK , f \ F the authenticity of the following letters , I can say no mote , than that the gentleman , amongwhose papers they were found after his deathhad written on the . backs of them—that he well
, , as as many antiquarians and learned men of his acquaintance , believed them to be ori ginal . 0 s _ T ; , < FIRST LETTER . September 6 , ifeo . ' , HASTE , paper , to that happy presence , whence only unhappy I am •' banished . Kiss that fair correcting handwliich lays plasters to
, new my lighter hurtes , but to my greatest wound applyeth nothing . Say thou comest from - Pining , languishing , despairing S . X . ' SECOSD LETTER . September 9 , 1600 1
WORDES , if you can , expresse my lowly thankfullnesse , but presse not , sue nott , moane nott , least passion prompt you , and I by you both be betrayed . Report my silence , my solitariness , my sighs , but not my hopes , my feares , my desires , for myne uttermost ambition is to be a mutte person in that presence , where joy and words would banspeech , from The greatest Ladyes , in power and goodnesse ,
Humblest mutte vassal ! , a v o . .. x . * Lord Howard ' s letter lo King William . t Dalrymple .. J . Burnet .