Eccentric Biography; Or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, sir, but you should; you are the breath of our nostrils," Upon this the king, addressing himself to the Bishop of Winchester, who was celebrated for his wit, " Well, my lord, and. what say you ?" " Sir," replied Andrews, " I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The king exclaimed, " No evasions my lord; I expect an immediate and direct answer to my question." " Then, sir," said he, " I think it lawful for you to take my brother Neale's money, for ho offers it." This prelate died, September 27, /626, and was buried in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark, where a monument was erected to his memory. He had a share in the present translation of the Bible; and a volume of his sermons was published after his death, by the bishops Laud and Buckeridge. His private devotions and meditations in Greek were trans- lated into English by Dr. Stanhope. ANDREWS,(Mr.j was born to an easy independent fortune, but commencing life at a time that he was incapable of judging of the world, or of himself, was led away by a single passion; for he was not actuated by any other. He devoted himself entirely to the blind goddess, and worshipped her incessantly under the form of two ivory balls. He was remarkably thin, not very tall, though above the middle sie: his face was a perfect vacuum, with respect to every possible idea except Billiards. So infatuated was he in pursuing this game, to attain attain the summit of excellence at it, that he sacrificed days, nights, weeks, months, and years to it. At length he arrived .at such a degree of perfection, as well in the theoretical, as the practical part of the game, that there was no player in Europe could equal him, except o...