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L. Schmitz in Smith's Dict. of Greek and Roman Biog.: Art. Always, too, at evening, there was to be Religious teaching and reading of the Bible. Here, indeed, Milton's utilitarian bent, his determination to substitute a pabulum of real knowledge for the studies then customary in schools, asserts itself most conspicuously.
Letter quoted by Woolrych. S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLXXXIII., No. 52. S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CXII., No. 1. S.P. Dom., James I., No. 18. Stonyhurst MSS., Angliæ, Vol. VII. And Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, Series I., p. 532. Also Records of the English Province of the S.J., Series I., p. 533. Biog. Brit., notice of Sir E. Coke. S.P. Dom., James I., Vol.
And thus the fond prince, while he meant to play the tutor to his favorite, and to train him up in the rules of prudence and politics, took an infallible method, by loading him with premature and exorbitant honors, to render him, forever, rash, precipitate, and insolent. * See Biog. Brit, article Coke, p. 1384. Bacon, vol.iv. p. 617. * Franklyn, p. 30. Clarendon, 8vo. edit. vol. i. p. 10
Alexander Gordon, in his article on Zachary Taylor, Dict. Nat. Biog., says that Carrington probably wrote this book. This seems impossible. The author of the book, in speaking of Mr. Jollie, Mr. C. as having "exposed himself in so many insignificant Fopperies foisted into his Narrative" proof enough that Carrington did not write The Lancashire Levite Rebuked.
"Why then, Madame," said he, quite out of patience, "the best thing I can advise you to do is to put your tragedy along with your irons." Mrs. B. was Mrs. Brooke. See Baker's Biog. Dram. iii. 273, where no less than thirty-seven Sieges are enumerated. That the story was true is shewn by the Garrick Corres. ii. 6.
I., p. 87, note, gives the following list of those who have maintained the theory of two Simons: Vitringa, Observ. Sacrar., v. 12, § 9, p. 159, C.A. Heumann, Acta Erudit. Lips. for April, A.D. 1727, p. 179, and Is. de Beausobre, Diss. sur l'Adamites, pt. ii. subjoined to L'Enfants' Histoire de la Guerre des Hussites, i. 350, etc. Dr. Christ. Biog., art. "Helena," Vol. Dr. Salmon's art.
III. p. 70. Smith, Dict. Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Myth., art. Shortly afterwards, the Emperor Honorius, by solemn decree, put an end to this horrid custom. That protest can be uttered by every one here at home.
When he published his History of the Kingdom of Naples, a friend congratulating him on its success, said: 'Mon ami, vous vous êtes mis une couronne sur la tête, mais une couronne d'épines. His attacks on the Church led to persecution, in the end he made a retractation, but nevertheless he died in prison. Nouv. Biog. Gén. xx. 422. See ante, ii. 119.
See Vita Bidelli, the short account; Journals, Dec. 12, 13, 1654; Wood, iii. 594; and Biog. to break the designs of his adversaries. Displeasure and contempt were marked on his countenance; and the high and criminatory tone which he assumed taught them to feel how inferior the representatives of the people were to the representative of the army.
Chatterton said that he had found in a chest in St. Mary Redcliffe Church manuscript poems by Canynge, a merchant of Bristol in the fifteenth century, and a friend of his, Thomas Rowley. He gave some of these manuscripts to George Catcot, a pewterer of Bristol, who communicated them to Mr. Barret, who was writing a History of Bristol. Rose's Biog. Dict. vi. 256. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 22.
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