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NATIONAL HONOURS
Men of high merit stamp a right to honour with the seal of reflected eminence."
Anon.
LONDON
PRINTED BY J. E. TAYLOR &
CO., LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
Lincoln's inn fields.
1867.
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LIBRARY 11
ilNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNM [
SANTA BARBARA I
INSCRIBED
TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE
TO THE MEMORY OF
EGBERT BIGSBY.
• Civil List Pension.
PREFACE.
them.
NOBLEST CLAIMANTS.
34 LITEEARY CLAIMS TO
often
man —the " father " —the " benefactor " of his
people.
We read with a sense of grateful pleasure that
Vespasian, the parent of this good Prince, was
equally conspicuous for his many virtues. To
PUBLIC HONOURS AND REWARDS. 57
of courtly —
ceremonials when acting their august
part in the befitting pageantries of their royal
station.The monarch of to-day must necessarily
be unknown in person to millions of his most
dutiful and devoted lieges. In eaiiier times, his
face and form, his manners and speech, would
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62 LITERARY CLAIMS TO
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of things, and freely assigning, as a
QQ LITERARY CLAIMS TO
Oppian.
PlotinuSj a Platonic philosopher, became a
public teacher in Rome, and was caressed by
Gallienus, who admired the extent of his learning.
His eloquence charmed the populace, his doc-
trines the senate ; his school was frequented by-
solvent.
The squalid walls of a workhouse surrounded
the death-bed of the renowned Agrippa.
Erasmus was certainly the greatest man of his
time. Popes, kings, archbishops, bishops, and
cardinals hid their diminished heads in his pre-
sence. One is, indeed, almost tempted to laugh
when one surveys a group of stupid personages
with crowns and mitres, riches and titles, sitting
on their thrones and in their cathedrals, yet bow-
ing with an homage at once abject and involun-
tary, to the personal merit of the poor, neglected,
'•
— cynically expressing Ms own lot to be con-
" demned to the house of a Poet, where nothing
" was to be seen but the bare walls, and not any-
" thing heard but the noise of a saw, dividing
" billets all the day long, more to keep the family
" in exercise than to comfort any person there with
" fire, save the paralytick master and went on ;
" give him good words and stroke him, but Rey-
" nard, barking, told me those would not do, I
" must give him meat. I angry called him stink-
" ing vermin. He replied, Look into your cel-
'
" ' you and your family if you prevent not tlie
" ' working of it in time. And therefore God
"Ben Jonson.
" Westminster, 20'"° Dec'"''", 1631.
THE end.
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