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Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
divested himself of his clerical character , and married a young and handsome wife ; in justification of which measure he thought it necessary to write a treatise , which he entitled ' An seni sit Uxor 'du' cenda ; ' and which he addressed to Cosmo de Medici . This im- ' portant dissertation yet remains , though it has not hitherto been printed .
SIR THOMAS MORE . < It happened one da } 7 , ' says Mr . Aubrey , in his manuscript lives , ( that a mad Tom of Bedlam came up to Sir Thomas More , as he 4 was contemplating , according to his custom , on the leads of the ' gate-house of his palace at Chelsea , and had a mind to have thrown ' him from the battlementscrying out' leapTomleap' The
chan-, , , , . ' cellor was in his gown , and besides , antient and unable to struggle <¦ with such a strong fellow . My Lord had a little dog with him . ' Now ( said he ) let us first throw the dog down , and see what sport " ' that will be : so the dog was thrown over . Is not this fine sport ? 1 ( said his Lordship ) Letus fetch him up , and try it again . As the ' madman was going down , my Lord fastened the door , and called for hel
' p . ' More ' s spirit and innocent mirth did not forsake him in his last moments . As he was going up the scaffold to be beheaded , he found the stairs of it so weak and crazy , that it was nearly ready to fall : he turned about to the lieutenant of the Tower , and said , ' pray , mas' ter lieutenant , see me safe up ; and for my coming down , I can shift
* for myself . ' When he had finished his prayers , he turned to the executioner and said , on observing him look sad and dejected , ' pluck ' up thy spirits , man , and be not afraid to do thine office ; my neck ' is very short , therefore take care you don ' t strike awry , for your cre-< dit ' s sake . ' Then laying his head upon the block , he desired the executioner to stay till he had put his beard aside , ' for that , ' said he , ' has never committed treason . '
KANG HI , EMPEROR OK-CHINA . KANG HI was one of the most illustrious princes that ever sat upon the throne of China . To great talents and a comprehensive understanding , he added the graces of virtue and of piety , and from his earliest life exhibited that ardour of mind so well suited to the difficult task
of governing . He came to the crown in 1661 , and died in 1724 . . When the emperor Cham-Chi , his father , was on his death-bed , he assembled his children together , to fix upon a successor to his kingdom . On asking his eldest son if he should like to be emperor , the latter answered , that he was top weak to support so great a burthen . The second made nearly the same answer . But when he put the question to young Kang Hi , who was not quite seven years
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
divested himself of his clerical character , and married a young and handsome wife ; in justification of which measure he thought it necessary to write a treatise , which he entitled ' An seni sit Uxor 'du' cenda ; ' and which he addressed to Cosmo de Medici . This im- ' portant dissertation yet remains , though it has not hitherto been printed .
SIR THOMAS MORE . < It happened one da } 7 , ' says Mr . Aubrey , in his manuscript lives , ( that a mad Tom of Bedlam came up to Sir Thomas More , as he 4 was contemplating , according to his custom , on the leads of the ' gate-house of his palace at Chelsea , and had a mind to have thrown ' him from the battlementscrying out' leapTomleap' The
chan-, , , , . ' cellor was in his gown , and besides , antient and unable to struggle <¦ with such a strong fellow . My Lord had a little dog with him . ' Now ( said he ) let us first throw the dog down , and see what sport " ' that will be : so the dog was thrown over . Is not this fine sport ? 1 ( said his Lordship ) Letus fetch him up , and try it again . As the ' madman was going down , my Lord fastened the door , and called for hel
' p . ' More ' s spirit and innocent mirth did not forsake him in his last moments . As he was going up the scaffold to be beheaded , he found the stairs of it so weak and crazy , that it was nearly ready to fall : he turned about to the lieutenant of the Tower , and said , ' pray , mas' ter lieutenant , see me safe up ; and for my coming down , I can shift
* for myself . ' When he had finished his prayers , he turned to the executioner and said , on observing him look sad and dejected , ' pluck ' up thy spirits , man , and be not afraid to do thine office ; my neck ' is very short , therefore take care you don ' t strike awry , for your cre-< dit ' s sake . ' Then laying his head upon the block , he desired the executioner to stay till he had put his beard aside , ' for that , ' said he , ' has never committed treason . '
KANG HI , EMPEROR OK-CHINA . KANG HI was one of the most illustrious princes that ever sat upon the throne of China . To great talents and a comprehensive understanding , he added the graces of virtue and of piety , and from his earliest life exhibited that ardour of mind so well suited to the difficult task
of governing . He came to the crown in 1661 , and died in 1724 . . When the emperor Cham-Chi , his father , was on his death-bed , he assembled his children together , to fix upon a successor to his kingdom . On asking his eldest son if he should like to be emperor , the latter answered , that he was top weak to support so great a burthen . The second made nearly the same answer . But when he put the question to young Kang Hi , who was not quite seven years