The History of the Life and Times of Cardinal Wolsey: Prime Minister to King Henry VIII ...J. Purser, 1742 |
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... Wolfey lived in was very remarkable for many great and extraordinary Events ; fo that , to form a true Judgment of the deep Schemes and extenfive Views of fo penetrat- ing a Genius , especially when he arrived to be Prime Minifter , we ...
... Wolfey lived in was very remarkable for many great and extraordinary Events ; fo that , to form a true Judgment of the deep Schemes and extenfive Views of fo penetrat- ing a Genius , especially when he arrived to be Prime Minifter , we ...
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... Wolfey's Original and great Abilities , and have differently reprefented both , we fhall , by way of Introduction , mention what several of them relate . - SPEED fays , Wolfey's Parents were poor , but of honest Report . GODWIN , He was ...
... Wolfey's Original and great Abilities , and have differently reprefented both , we fhall , by way of Introduction , mention what several of them relate . - SPEED fays , Wolfey's Parents were poor , but of honest Report . GODWIN , He was ...
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... Wolfey was but a poor Man's Son of Ipf- wich . - RAPIN , Wolfey was a Clergyman eminent for his Merit , tho ' but a Butcher's Son of Ipfwich . - Da- NIEL , Hiftory reprefents Thomas Wolfey to us as one of the most vain , most ambitious ...
... Wolfey was but a poor Man's Son of Ipf- wich . - RAPIN , Wolfey was a Clergyman eminent for his Merit , tho ' but a Butcher's Son of Ipfwich . - Da- NIEL , Hiftory reprefents Thomas Wolfey to us as one of the most vain , most ambitious ...
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... Wolfey's Parents ; but only fays , Wolfey was Chaplain , and employed by Henry the VIIth . The various Ac- counts , that have been given of Wolfey's Original , occa- fioned one of our English Poets to make the following witty Remark ...
... Wolfey's Parents ; but only fays , Wolfey was Chaplain , and employed by Henry the VIIth . The various Ac- counts , that have been given of Wolfey's Original , occa- fioned one of our English Poets to make the following witty Remark ...
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... Wolfey's Father's Profeffion or Business was , it will be neceffary to purfue our Enquiry farther . Dr. Fiddes , who wrote the Cardinal's Life , admits the common Tradition , that Wolfey was the Son of a Butcher ; but he avers he can ...
... Wolfey's Father's Profeffion or Business was , it will be neceffary to purfue our Enquiry farther . Dr. Fiddes , who wrote the Cardinal's Life , admits the common Tradition , that Wolfey was the Son of a Butcher ; but he avers he can ...
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Page 3 - Wolsey was an honest, poor man's sonne — who, being but a child, was very apt to learne ; wherefore by means of his parents and other his good friends he was maintained at the university of Oxford, where in a short time he prospered so well, that in a small time, (as he told me with his owne mouth,) he was made bachelour of arts, when he was but fifteen years of age, and was most commonly called the boy batchelour.