 The first peer of the name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russell, a person of an ancient gentleman's family raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the...  Contains the blood royal, and part of the dukes - Page 268by Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 540 pages
...history, in which great men have always a pleasure in contemplating the heroick origin of their house. The first peer of the name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russel, a person of an ancient gentleman's family raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 pages
...origin of their house. The first peer of the name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russel, -a person of an ancient gentleman's family raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the favourite... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pages
...of the Crown. « • • • The first Peer of the name, the fin»t purchaser of the grants, was p Mr Russell, a person of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry VIII. The firet of those immoderate grants was taken, not from the ancient demesne of the ( i own, but from... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...compare my little merit with that which obtained from the crown those prodigies of profuse donations by which he tramples on the mediocrity of humble and...name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russel, a person of an ancient gentleman's family raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...liiive a;\v:ivM a pbMsure in conti'inplating tho heroic origin of their house. Tho flret peer t»f X + регноп of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry VIII. AM there gi-nrrallv... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...Throne" — " The first peer of the name (Bedford), the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russel, a person of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the favourite... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...history, in which great men have always a pleasure in contemplating the heroick origin of their house. The first peer of the name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Rüssel, a person of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 662 pages
...history, in which great men have always a pleasure in contemplating the heroick origin of their house. The first peer of the name, the first purchaser of the grants, was a Mr. Russel, a person of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As... | |
 | 1834 - 1056 pages
...crantées of the Crown. « • • • [he first Peer of the name, the fr?t purchaser of the grants, was p Mr Russell, a person of an ancient gentleman's family, raised by being « minion of Henry VIII. The first of those immoderate graute 520 was taken, not from the ancient demesne... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1837 - 894 pages
...pourtraying his Grace, he proceeds to describe the origin of the family titles and honours : — " The first Peer of the name — the first purchaser...gentleman's family, raised by being a minion of Henry the Eighth. As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the favourite... | |
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