 ... he was made a baron, a viscount, an earl, a marquis, and became lord high admiral of England, lord warden of the cinque ports, master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honours and all the offices...  The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge - Page 3491783Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...High Admiral of England, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Master of the Horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the King, in conferring all the...offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival; in dispensing whereof in it as guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment; and so exalted almost... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...Master of the Horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the King, in conferring all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival ; in dispensing whereof he was guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment ; and so exalted almost... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...Master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the King, in conferring all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival; in dispensing whereof, he was guided more by the rules of appetite than of judgment ; and so exalted almost... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 394 pages
...high admiral of England, lord warden of the cinque ports, master of the horse, and entirely disposed of all the graces of the king, in conferring all the honors and all the offices of three kingdoms, without a rival ; in dispensing whereof, he was guided more by the rules of appetite... | |
 | Angus Stroud - History - 1999 - 246 pages
...the beauty and gracefulness and becomingness of his person. . . . [He distributed] all the honours and all the offices of the three kingdoms, without a rival; in dispensing whereof, he was guided more by the rule of appetite than of judgement; and so exalted almost... | |
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