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" ... he was made a baron, a viscount, an earl, a marquis, and became lord high admiral of England, lord warden of the cinque ports, master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honours and all the offices... "
The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge - Page 349
1783
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in ..., Volume 1

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 332 pages
...Mafter of the Horfe, andentirely difpofed of all the Graces of the King, in conferring all the Honours, and all the Offices of the three Kingdoms without...was guided more by the Rules of Appetite, than of Judgement, and fo, exalted almoft all of his own numerous Family, and Dependants ; whofe greateft Merit...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 11

Biography - 1762 - 560 pages
...England, lord warden of the Cinque ports, maftef of the hori'e ; and imirely difpoled of the favors of the king, in conferring all the honors, •and...offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival. In this, he was guided more by appetite, than judgment ; and fo exalted almoft all of his own numerous...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...mavter of the horfc ; and entirely difpofed of the favours of the king, in conferring all the honours, and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival. In tiiis he was guided more by appetite than judgement; and fo exalted almoft all of his own numerous...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 30

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 528 pages
...master of the horse ; and entirely disposed of the favours of the king, in conferring ail the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms without a rival. In this he shewed the usual partialities of personal and family ambition, and raised almost all of his...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 30

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 520 pages
...master of the horse ; and entirely disposed of the favours of the king, in conferring all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms without a rival. In this he shewed the usual partialities of personal and family ambition, and raised almost all of his...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...former favourite. That the Duke disposed of all the gracesof the King, in conferring all thehonours, and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival ; in dispensing whereof he was guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment, and so exalted almost...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Volume 1

Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1839 - 516 pages
...master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival; in dispensing whereof, he was guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment; and so exalted almost...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 146

1870 - 784 pages
...conjoint capacities he "entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival ; in dispensing whereof he was guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment," — conferring power...
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Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and Character

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...High Admiral of England, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Master of the Horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the King, in conferring all the...offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival; in dispensing whereof in it as guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment ; and so exalted...
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Macaulay, T.B. History; and essay.-[Yonge, C.M.] History of Greece.-[Gibbon ...

Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...high admiral of England, lord warden of the cinque-ports, master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honors and all the offices of three kingdoms without a rival." The marriage of the earl of Somerset with the divorced Lady Essex,...
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