" Dr Earle ," says Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, in his Life, " was a man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent, and so very facetious, that no man ’ s company was more desired and loved.

P. A. Sillard, one of Mitchel's biographers says that " In its burning hatred against the Irish the grave Spectator let out its fears of an acquittal, its fears that the jury might not be sufficiently well packed ; but it might depend on Lord Clarendon that this latter all important point would not be forgotten.

He was described by Clarendon as " a man of very dumb education and a narrower mind "; and again he says, " his cardinal perfection was industry and his most eminent infirmity covetousness.

" They were resolved one way or other to be rid of him ," says Clarendon.

The tax had been justified, says Clarendon, who expresses his admiration at Hampden's " rare temper and modesty " at this crisis, " upon such grounds and reasons as every standerby was able to swear was not law " ( Hist.

" He was not a man of many words ," says Clarendon, " and rarely began the discourse or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed, but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate and observed how the House was likely to be inclined, took up the argument and shortly and clearly and craftily so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future " ( Hist.

He left behind him, says Clarendon, a reputation of a very fine gentleman and a most accomplished courtier, and after having spent, in a very jovial life, above £ 400, 000, which upon a strict computation he received from the crown, he left not a house or acre of land to be remembered by.

Report says he paid Clarendon £ 8, 000 for the office, while Burnet declares he obtained it without any application of his own.

On one occasion his zeal in the parliamentary cause led him to open a letter from the Earl of Northumberland to his countess, an impertinence for which, says Clarendon, he was cudgelled by the earl.

Clarendon says before the war he had been given up to pleasure and field sports, but that he broke those habits and became a thorough soldier, conspicuous not only for courage, but presence of mind and skilful generalship ( ib vii 216 ).

Of another Cavalier, Lord Goring a general in the Royalist army, the principal advisor to Charles II, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, said that he " would, without hesitation, have broken any trust, or done any act of treachery to have satisfied an ordinary passion or appetite ; and in truth wanted nothing but industry ( for he had wit, and courage, and understanding and ambition, uncontrolled by any fear of God or man ) to have been as eminent and successful in the highest attempt of wickedness as any man in the age he lived in or before.

He continued to show the same zeal and severity as before, and with so much success that Lord Clarendon, writing in his praise, expressed the opinion that " if Bancroft had lived, he would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva.

Three months ago I promised Lord Clarendon, and his government, in this country, that I would provoke him into his courts of justice, as places of this kind are called, and that I would force him publicly and notoriously to pack a Jury against me to convict me, or else that if I would walk out a free man from this dock, to meet him in another field.

During this debate, Ashley opposed the policy engineered by Charles ' Lord Chancellor, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, thus beginning what would prove to be a long-running political rivalry with Clarendon.

Upon the reconstitution of the Whig administration in 1859, Lord John Russell made it a condition of his acceptance of office under Lord Palmerston that the foreign department should be placed in his own hands, which implied that Lord Clarendon should be excluded from office, as it would have been inconsistent alike with his dignity and his tastes to fill any other post in the government.

These plans envision an elevator that would connect the western end of the platform to a location near the corner of Clarendon Boulevard and Barton Street.

In 1949 the NAACP agreed to provide funding and sponsor a case that would go beyond transportation and ask for equal educational opportunities in Clarendon County.

As the name of the ministry would suggest, Lord Clarendon ( earlier Lord Hyde ) was, in effect, the leader of the government.

His term as treasurer began concurrently with the assumption of power by the Clarendon Ministry, but his death would precede Lord Clarendon's impeachment from the House of Commons, after which the Cabal Ministry took over government.

However, an argument can be made to extend the Courthouse neighborhood to lie between the midpoint of the locations of the Courthouse and Clarendon Metro stations and the midpoint of the Courthouse and Rosslyn Stations -- which would be Danville and Rhodes Streets, respectively.

) The new Foreign Secretary, Lord Clarendon, had full faith and confidence that Lyons would be the " honest man " to clean up the mess and restore positive Anglo-Ottoman relations.

Clarendon, always having warned about " this foolish war ", was ordered to quickly make peace with the Dutch without French mediation.

" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.

Clarendon was impeached, in part, for blatant violations of habeas corpus ; sending prisoners out of England to places like Jersey, and holding them there without benefit of trial.

Words without Objects: Oxford, Clarendon Press.

He was a slave, proud of his servitude, a Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues, an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence, a man without delicacy, without shame, without sense enough to know when he was hurting the feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision ; and because he was all this, he has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus, Clarendon, Alfieri, and his own idol Johnson.

Robert was present in January 1164 when the king summoned a council of the barons and the bishops to Clarendon, where the king demanded that both groups swear to uphold the royal rights of Henry's grandfather, King Henry I, without any reservations or conditions.

These revisions, which since the Clarendon edition of 1869 have been assumed to include all of Act III, scene v, and a portion of Act IV, scene I, are often indicated in modern texts.

North-south streets are named for colleges, while east-west streets are arranged in alphabetical order and have the same names as the north-south streets in Boston's Back Bay: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, and Hereford.

Clarendon gives a very eulogistic account of Pembroke, who appears, however, to have been a man of weak character and dissolute life.

Three school districts headquartered in surrounding counties, Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District, Groom Independent School District, and Happy Independent School District, have small unincorporated portions of Armstrong County.

It is one of the original nine Clarendon Schools ( including Eton College, Harrow and Charterhouse School ) that were defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 Originally a boarding school for boys, girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and its mixed gender roll of around 720 includes approximately 130 day pupils.

" Burnet's viewpoint, whilst contemporary was not unbiased, however, and whilst Essex's brother's administration as Lord Deputy in 1696 ' followed such a high minded approach his predecessors, such as Clarendon, Tyrconnel and Ormond's own last period as viceroy could not be said to have followed Essex's model.

He was notorious for spinning incredible tales of his exploits ; Clarendon wrote that through constant re-telling he may have come to believe them himself.

Historically, many of the UK's greatest scientists have been based at either Oxford or Cambridge University, with laboratories such as the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford becoming famous in their own right.

But Clarendon tells us that " after fifty years of life spent with less severity and exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that licence ".

Ashley, however, refused to join in the fight against Clarendon, opposing a motion to have Clarendon committed to the Tower of London on a charge of treason.

Clarendon described him as " a wise man, and of too great and plentiful a fortune to wish the subversion of the government ," and again referring to his death, said that " many who knew him well thought his death not unseasonable as well to his fame as his fortune, and that it rescued him as well from some possible guilt as from those visible misfortunes which men of all conditions have since undergone.

The Monmouthshire estates, which he had obtained by reversion from Cromwell, were allowed to remain in his possession, though they should strictly have reverted to his father ; the latter wrote to Lord Clarendon that his son was intriguing against him.

Surmising that the white children rode buses -- the white schools in Clarendon County used 33 buses at the time for white students -- the Briggs family and many others contended black students could have at least one.

According to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a worse choice could not have been made, for Lenthall was of a very timorous nature.

If Don John had not suffered from the indolence which Clarendon considered his chief defect, the Portuguese might have been hard pressed.