Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby ...

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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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: That so curious an article should have hitherto escaped the attention of his Biographers, is not a little singular; but it will be seen by the Memoir which it was necessary to prefix to it, that it throws important light, not only upon Digby's own character, but also upon the character and conduct of Lady Venetia; and many curious particulars will also be found of the most distinguished personages of their times. As in the introductory account of Sir Kenelm Digby, the question of the authenticity of the MS., which is preserved in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum, No. 6758, is discussed, and every particular concerning it stated, any farther observations in this place are unnecessary. June 1st, 1827. chapter{Section 4LIFE SIR KENELM DIGBY. The difficulty of writing the life of so diversified a genius as Sir Kenelm Digby, has been justly considered a perilous task; and that difficulty is but little lessened by the elaborate account of him in the " Bio- graphia Britannica," or the concise but incomparable summary of his character by Mr. Lodge. In the former of those productions, every fact which the industry of more than one editor could collect is copiously detailed; whilst the successful manner in which the biographer who is just alluded to, has selected all that is really important concerning him, stated those deductions which are to be made from his Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs. conduct, and clothed his narration and remarks in the most polished and appropriate language, render it impossible that this Memoir of him can excel the minuteness of the one, or equal the terseness, the elegance, or the energy of the other. Nor will the attempt even be made: for the only hopes which...

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