Search -
The History of Britain; That Part Especially Now Called England, From the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest
The History of Britain That Part Especially Now Called England From the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest Author:John Milton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed for V.R. Wilks Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain History / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gener... more »al Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LIFE OF MI LT ON. BY EDWARD PHILIPS. 1694. V./F all the several parts of History, that which sets forth the lives, and commemorates the most remarkable actions, sayings, or writings of famous and illustrious persons, whether in war or peace, whether many together, or any one in particular, as it is not the least useful in itself, so it is in highest vogue and esteem among the studious and reading part of mankind. The most eminent in this way of history were, among the ancients, Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius, of the Greeks; the first wrote the Lives, for the most part, of the most renowned Heroes and Warriours of the Greeks and Romans; the other the Lives of the Ancient Greek Philosophers. And Cornelius Nepos (or as some will have it ./Emilius Probus) of the Latins, who wrote the Lives of the most illustrious Greek and Roman Generals. Among the moderns, Machiavel, a noble Florentine, who elegantly wrote the Life of Castruccio Castracana, lord of Lucca. And of our nation, sir Fulk Grevil, who wrote the Life of his most intimate friend, Sir Philip Sidney; Mr. Thomas Stanley, of Cumberlo-Green, who made a most elaborate improvement to the foresaid Laertius, by adding to what he found in him, what by diligent search and en- quiry he collected from other authors of best authority; [and] Isaac Walton, who wrote the Lives of Sir Henry Wotton, Dr. Donne, and, for his divine poems, the admired Mr. George Herbert. Lastly, not to mention several other biographers of conside...« less