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Title: The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive
Year: 1775 (1770s)
Authors: Barlow, Frederic
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Publisher: London, Printed for the author, by S. Bladon
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ghted in the confequence of things, yet he was feldom known t*fpeak in matters of flate, which, he well knew were, for the moft part,concluded before they were brought to that public agitation : never iaforeign aifairs, which the vigour of his judgment could well have com-prehended : nor indeed freely in any thing, but Vvhat immediately andplainly concerned tiie julHce of the kingdom ; and in that, as much ashe could, he procured references to the judges. Though in his nature hehad not only a firm gravity, but a feverity and even fome morofity ; yetit was fo happily tempered, and his courtefy and affability towards allmen fo tranfeendent, and fo much without affeftation, that it marvelouilyrecommended him to men of all degrees ; and he v/as looked upon as anexcellent courtier, without receding from the native fimplicity of his ownmanners. ** He had, in the plain way of fpeaking and delivery, without muchornament of elocution, a ilrange power of making himfelf believed (th^ only JE^RLS
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Earl of Covei^try. 403 only jurdiiable dengn of eloquence) To that though he ufed very franklyto deny, and would never fufter any man to depart from him with an opi-nion that he was inclined to gratify, when in truth he was not ; holdingthat difTimulation to be the woril of lyin^ : yet the manner of it was fogentle and obliging, and his condefcenfion fuch, to inform the perfouswhom he could not fatisfy, that few departed from him with ill-will andiil-wifhes. * But then this happy temper, and thofe good faculties, rather pre-•Served him from having many enemies, and fupplied him wit!\ fome well-wifhers, than furnifhed him with any fall and imihaken friends; who arealways procured in courts by more ardour and more vehement profeffionsland applications than he would fuffer himfelf to be entano;Ied with: fothat he was a man rather exceedingly liked, than paffionately loved ; in-fomuch that it never appeared that he had any one friend in the court, ofquality enough to prevent or divert a

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