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... Henry Pelham , present Duke ; second , Lord Thomas , lieutenant in the first regiment of foot guards , died of a ... PERCY , 216 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND . Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle.
... Henry Pelham , present Duke ; second , Lord Thomas , lieutenant in the first regiment of foot guards , died of a ... PERCY , 216 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND . Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle.
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... Percy is stiled " Quidam è BARONIBUS Regiis . " And in an authentic account of the proceedings in a plea before King ... Henry Earl of Ogle ( only son and heir of Henry Cavendish , second Duke of Newcastle ) to assume the name and ...
... Percy is stiled " Quidam è BARONIBUS Regiis . " And in an authentic account of the proceedings in a plea before King ... Henry Earl of Ogle ( only son and heir of Henry Cavendish , second Duke of Newcastle ) to assume the name and ...
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Arthur Collins. second , Walter de Percy ; third , William de Percy . These three were witnesses to their father's ... Henry II . held in Dorsetshire thirty - one knights fees ; whose posterity possessed con- siderable property in ...
Arthur Collins. second , Walter de Percy ; third , William de Percy . These three were witnesses to their father's ... Henry II . held in Dorsetshire thirty - one knights fees ; whose posterity possessed con- siderable property in ...
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... Percy , together with his wife's brother , Walter de Gaunt , is wit- ness to the charter of King Henry I. A. D. 1116 , by which he confirms the grant of the said Walter to Bardney Abbey in Lin- colnshire , P S r By Emma de Gaunt ( who ...
... Percy , together with his wife's brother , Walter de Gaunt , is wit- ness to the charter of King Henry I. A. D. 1116 , by which he confirms the grant of the said Walter to Bardney Abbey in Lin- colnshire , P S r By Emma de Gaunt ( who ...
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... Percy from the conquest . He was one of those northern Barons who stood forth among the defenders of his country ... Henry II . on levying the aid for marrying the King's daughter , he certified his Knights fees to be twenty ...
... Percy from the conquest . He was one of those northern Barons who stood forth among the defenders of his country ... Henry II . on levying the aid for marrying the King's daughter , he certified his Knights fees to be twenty ...
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Page 417 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 475 - In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit; and (where his passions were not concernedl of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating a judgment.
Page 464 - Commonwealth man, and was one of the knights of the shire for the county of Northampton, in 1656 ; he was also of Cromwell's council, chamberlain of the court, and high steward of Westminster.
Page 155 - I bade him alight, which with all willingness he quickly granted, and there, in a meadow ancle deep in water at the least, bidding farewell to our doublets, in our shirts began to charge each other, having afore commanded our surgeons to withdraw themselves a pretty distance from us...
Page 416 - Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a , first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Page 474 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
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Page 154 - ... concerning the terms whereon we should fight, as also the place. To our seconds we gave power for their appointments, who agreed we should go to Antwerp, from thence to Bergen-op-Zoom, where in the mid-way but a village divides the States' territories from the archduke's. And there was the destined stage, to the end that having ended, he that could, might presently exempt himself from the justice of the country, by retiring into the dominion not offended. It was...
Page 475 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...
Page 475 - For failings he had undoubtedly - many of us remember them; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for Fame; a passion which is 1 There is an implicit contrast here with Burke's own parliamentary style and how Parliament sometimes received it. the instinct of all great souls.