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Just about this time I narrowly missed a longed-for chance of meeting this hero of my PENATES. Lady Ashburton Carlyle's Lady Ashburton knowing my admiration, kindly invited me to The Grange, while he was there. The house was full mainly of ministers or ex-ministers, Cornewall Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, Sir James Graham, Albany Fonblanque, Mr.
See in the Scotish chronicles more of these matters. Matth. Conan Meridoc duke of Cornewall. Octauius at the first meant to haue giuen hir in mariage vnto one Conan Meridoc duke of Cornewall, which was his nephue: but when the lords would not thereto agrée, at the length he appointed one Maurice sonne to the said Conan to go to Rome to fetch the forenamed Maximianus.
The Bishop died eighteen months after this calamity. The see was next occupied for six weeks only by the Hon. J. Harley. *John Butler*, A.D. 1788-1802. By birth a German, was an active political supporter of the Government of the day. He contributed largely to the repair of the cathedral. *Folliott Herbert Cornewall*, A.D. 1802-1808. He was a member of an ancient family in the county of Hereford.
The French Institute elected him "Correspondant" in 1865 and Associated Member in 1888, in which latter dignity he succeeded Sir Henry Maine. In 1870 the University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. 'It was in 1855, on the resignation of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, that he assumed the editorship of this "Review," which he retained till the day of his death.
Such men are an invaluable element in the deliberative stages of every question; but their very critical powers paralyse action, and when movement becomes necessary their hesitations are a drawback. I fancy that Cornewall Lewis was just such another, but I did not know so much about him.... For me, I improve, slowly but enough, I think, to show at least that our move was not premature.
Betwixt him and the aboue-named Conan Meridoc duke of Cornewall, chanced strife and debate, so that Conan got him into Scotland, and there purchasing aid, returned, and comming ouer Humber, wasted the countrie on ech side.
They listened to such views with reasonable interest, but only as matters lying quite apart from their own business in the world. The statesman who pleased him best, and with whom he found most common ground, was Sir George Cornewall Lewis. Like most men of letters who happen to be blessed or cursed with a prudential conscience, Mr. Greg was haunted by the uncertainty of his vocation.
And thus hauing ended to that effect, be began to exhort to repentance, and besought all the company to pray, that it might please God to looke vpon their miserable present state and for his owne mercie to relieue the same. They arriued at S. Iues in Cornewall about the ende of October.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who had charge of the Edinburgh for a short space, truly described prolixity as the bête noire of an editor. "Every contributor," he said, "has some special reason for wishing to write at length on his own subject." This is what the soul of the volunteer contributor is dull to. Of the minor vexations who can tell?
As Disraeli said: 'In the course of time the method which was natural to Sir Robert Peel matured into a habit of such expertness that no one in the despatch of affairs ever adapted the means more fitly to the end. In the words of Sir Cornewall Lewis: 'For concocting, producing, explaining, and defending measures, he had no equal, or anything like an equal.
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