 | 1810 - 594 str.
...time attain the place of a secretary of state, he being at that time very high in the king's favour, and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nobility. bility. This, and the love of a court conversation, ini\t with a laudable ambition to be something... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 str.
...unfortunately the' praises he received, and the favour into which he was admitted, inspired him with amhition to rise at court. His predecessors in the office of...by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nohility," began to cherish hopes of similar success. With this view he frequently left Cambridge to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 str.
...character; for Herbert, having, in consequence of a dispute between them on predestination and lanctity of life, written a letter to the bishop on the subject...and the king having given him a sinecure worth about 120/. a year, he devoted himself yet more to court-attendance, and seldom visited Cambridge, unless... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 536 str.
...court. His predecessors in the office of public orator, sir Robert Nanton and sir Francis Netherscle, had both risen to places of distinction in the state;...by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nohility," began to cherish hopes of similar success. With this view-he frequently left Cambridge to... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 str.
...time attain the place of a Secretary of State, he being at that time very high in the King's favour; and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the Court nobility : This, and the love of a Court-conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
 | 1832 - 348 str.
...time attain the place of a secretary of state, he being at that time very high in the King's favor ; and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nobility. This, and the love of a court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 str.
...time attain the place of a secretary of state, he being at that time very high in the King's favor ; and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nobility. This, and the love of a court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
 | George Herbert - 1841 - 422 str.
...attain the place of a Secretary of State, he being at that tirne_very__hjgh- in the King'sfavgjir ; and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the Court nobility : This, and the love of a Court-conversation mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
 | George Herbert - 1841 - 394 str.
...time attain the place of a Secretary of State, he being at that time very high in the King's favour; and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the Court nobility: This, and the love of a Court-conversation mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
 | George Herbert - 1842 - 400 str.
...time attain the place of a secretary of state, he being at that time very high in the king's favor, and not meanly valued and loved by the most eminent and most powerful of the court nobility. This, and the love of a court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than... | |
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Court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than he then was, drew him often from Cambridge to attend the king wheresoever the Court was, who then gave him a sinecure which fell into his Majesty's disposal, I think, by the... 
