Physiognomical Portraits Volume 1-2; One Hundred Distinguished Characters from Undoubted Originals, Engraved in the Line Manner by the Most Eminent British Artists (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ... the Army employed against the Covenanters in Scotland; and, in l640-l, he presided as Lord High-Steward at the Earl of Strafford's trial, where his deportment gained him universal applause. In the same year he petitioned Charles I. to restore him to the Dukedom of Norfolk, which his grandfather, Thomas Howard, had lost by attainder in the reign of Elizabeth. Charles, however, conceded only by creating him Earl of that place, when he disappointed, and probably foreseeing the troubles arising in England, resigned his staff as High-Steward, and set out to travel. The society of his Countess and his grandchildren rendered this pleasing; and though he did return again to England, yet in the February of l64l-2, he it left to behold it no more. After passing several years in Holland, France, and Italy, when he was about to leave Padua for his native country, the Earl of Arundel fell sick at that City, and died there, in the presence of his son and grandehild, on October 4th, l646, aged 55. Les protecteurs des Sciences, de la litterature et des beaux arts, en meme tems qu'ils cultivent pour la posterite les talents et le genie de ceux qu'ils encouragent s'assurent de leur propre renommee. Ils partagent en quelque sorte l'immortalite des arts a la perfection desquels ils ont contribue et leurs noms deviennent chers non seulement durant leur vie mais meme aux generations qui les suivent. Thomas, Comte d'Arundel, fut un des plus nobles soutiens de la Sculpture, de la Peinture et de l'Architecture qu'ait produit le dix-septieme siecle. Il naquit le 7 Juillet l592, et etait fils de Phillippe Howard, Comte d'Arundel qui fut degrade en l589, pour avoir professe la religion catholique et ...