Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . dictated his poetry; ambition and acrimony hispolitical writings: the latter made Pope say— How many Martials were in Pulteney lost! That loss, however, was amply compensated to the world by the odes to which Lord Baths politicalconduct gave birth. The pen of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams inflicted deeper wounds in three monthson this Lord than a series of craftsmen
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . dictated his poetry; ambition and acrimony hispolitical writings: the latter made Pope say— How many Martials were in Pulteney lost! That loss, however, was amply compensated to the world by the odes to which Lord Baths politicalconduct gave birth. The pen of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams inflicted deeper wounds in three monthson this Lord than a series of craftsmen, aided by Lord Bolingbroke, for several years could imprint onSir Robert Walpole. The latter lost his power, but lived to see justice done to his character: hisrival acquired no power, but died—very rich. The Earl of Bath died Qn the eighth of July, 176-1, at the age of eighty-two, having had by his wife,Anna Maria, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John Gumley, Commissary and Muster-Master-General to the army, three children, all of whom he had the misfortune to survive; William, who died ininfancy; another William, Viscount Pulteney, who died at Madrid, unmarried, in 1763; and a daughter,Anna Maria, also FROM THE ORIGINAL OF ELAMX&5 OS THE COLLECTION OF THE RIGHT HON Till. K.\WI. OF 1 l.\U I >\\ H Is 1 ?.. 1 PHILIP rORKE, K I RST E P BABDWIC K i Oino of the most distinguished ornaments to British juriiprudenoe thai the bistorj of this eountrj oaoproduoe, was the only ion of a gentleman of bia own Dames, who praotiaed the Law for mat ith good reputation at Dover, by Elizabeth, daughter and beirof Richard Gibbon, a descendant from ?highly respeotable family whiob bad been long seated on il i own estates at Westoliffe, in the m igbbour*bood of that town. Those who, in their envy of distinguished merit, or rather of the brilliant rewardswhioh it sometimes obtains, will descend t«> use even the basest weapons, have invented various reports ofthe mea
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