The General Biographical Dictionary
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ISBN13: 9781458875464
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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: ancient and noble family, and born, as all his hiographers say, in 1672, but it appears by the register of Battersea parish that he was haptised Oct. 10, 1678. His father, sir Henry St. John, son of sir Walter St. John, died at Battersea, his family-seat, July 3, 1708, in his eighty-seventh year: his mother was lady Mary, second daughter and coheiress of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick. He was bred up, with great care, under the inspection of his grandfather, as well as his father, who neglected no means to cultivate his mind. It was once noticed in parliament that he was educated in dissenting principles, and it is very certain that the first director of his studies was the famous Daniel Burgess, who, with all his oddities (See Burgess) was frequently employed as tutor to the sons of men of rank. Goldsmith seems desirous to impute Bolingbroke's infidelity to this divine, and to his being obliged to read Manton's Sermons on the 119th Psalm; but such an opi- nion is as dangerous as it is absurd. From Burgess or Manton, he could have imhibed only a higher reverence for religion than was to be expected from a lively youth; and as to the disgust he felt, to which his hiographer seems inclined to trace his infidelity, it is prohable that a boy would not have entertained much less dislike to a voluminous history of England, if obliged to read it when he wished to be idle. But, whatever instruction he might receive from his first tutors, it is very certain, that he had a regular and liberal education. He was sent to Eton, where he had for his companion and rival sir Robert Wai- pole. The parts of Mr. St. John, says Coxe, were more lively and brilliant, those of Walpole more steady and solid. Walpole was industrious and diligent, because his talents required application; St. John...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458875464 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458875466 |
| Weight | 1.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $29.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 364 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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