. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . , while to his enemies his death seemedto be a great deliverance to the nation. All acknowledged his flowing courtesy, his influence on others, his unselfish and noblecharacter. Indeed, few men have been the subject of more genuine. JOHN the portrait belonging to the Earl of St. Germains at Port Eliot I-au p. y6 JOHN HAMPDEN 97 and unstinted praise than John Hampden. B} nature he was justa perfect gentleman, a man of refined tastes, deep piety, and loftyinstincts in private life. B) circumstance he became one of theleade
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . , while to his enemies his death seemedto be a great deliverance to the nation. All acknowledged his flowing courtesy, his influence on others, his unselfish and noblecharacter. Indeed, few men have been the subject of more genuine. JOHN the portrait belonging to the Earl of St. Germains at Port Eliot I-au p. y6 JOHN HAMPDEN 97 and unstinted praise than John Hampden. B} nature he was justa perfect gentleman, a man of refined tastes, deep piety, and loftyinstincts in private life. B) circumstance he became one of theleaders in a revolution, and, finding the dut}- of greatness thrustupon him, he fulfilled it by the simple translation of his talents andhis qualities into public actions. Each fresh crisis which he wascalled upon to face witnessed a new unfolding of himself to meet itsdemands. Writing his character large on events, he was convertedfrom the Puritan country squire, to the statesman whose name iswritten large upon the page of English history. DENZIL HOLLES (1599 1680) was the second son of John Holies, first Earl of Clare. He wasa man of an unusual character, well illustrated by an eventfulcareer. He was endowed with remarkable determination togetherwith a fiery temperament, so that his upri
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