 | 1767 - 640 էջ
...his high rank, but particularly in an age where knowledge and valour were thought incompatible, anJ not to be able to read was a mark of nobility. This...the example of his father King Henry, enlarged his undcrftanding and humanized his mind by a commerce with the mufes, which he afliduoufly cultivated,... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1767 - 588 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it: qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...able to read was a mark of nobility. This truly great manbroke through that cloud of barbarous ignorance, and, after the example of his father King Henry,... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1768 - 698 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it : qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...father King Henry, enlarged his underftanding and humanized his OF KIN GH ENR Y H. 315 his mind by a commerce with the mufes, which he afliduoufly cultivated,... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1777 - 534 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it; qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...father King Henry, enlarged his underftanding, and humanized his mind, by a commerce with the mufes, which he afliduoufly cultivated, even in courts and... | |
 | James Bennett - 1830 - 502 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it ; qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and valour were thought ineompatible, and not to be able to read was a mark of nobility. He was unquestionably the wisest man... | |
 | 1845 - 762 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it ; qualities rare at all times in a noble-nan of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...the example of his father King Henry, enlarged his understanding and humanized his mind by a commerce with the muses, which he assiduously cultivated,... | |
 | 1845 - 538 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it ; qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...the example of his father King Henry, enlarged his understanding and humanized his mind by a commerce with the muses, which he assiduously cultivated,... | |
 | 1845 - 364 էջ
...and was the patron of all who excelled in it ; qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and...the example of his father King Henry, enlarged his understanding and humanized his mind by a commerce with the muses, which he assiduously cultivated,... | |
 | 1881 - 378 էջ
...all times in noblemen of high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and valour were deemed incompatible, and not to be able to read was a mark of nobility. This truly great man," he continues, " broke through that clond of barbarous ignorance ; and, after the example of his father,... | |
 | 1881 - 354 էջ
...all times in noblemen of high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and valour were deemed incompatible, and not to be able to read was a mark of nobility. This truly great man," he continues, " broke through that cloud of barbarous ignorance ; and, after the example of his father,... | |
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Glocester himself had |ho inconsiderable tincture of learning, and was the patron of all who excelled in it ; qualities rare at all times in a nobleman of his high rank, but particularly in an age when knowledge and valour were thought incompatible, and... 