 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...lobs earthlie vealth doeth telP. j Adamsoni Poemata Sacra. Lond. 1619, 4(9. Lord Thirlstane, " a man of rare parts, and of a deep wit, learned, full of courage, and most faithful to his king," dying in the year 1595, James honoured his memory with the following epitaph : i Thou passenger that... | |
 | George Brunton, David Haig - Electronic books - 1832 - 614 pages
...most happy doth he die. Though for his prince it most unbappy be. " He was," says Spotswood, " a man of rare parts and of a deep wit, learned, full of...man did ever carry himself in his place more wisely, nor sustain it more courageously against his enemies." 1 Melville (James) in his Diary, gives him the... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1863 - 800 pages
...his contemporaries, for his eminent abilities and amiable disposition. Spotswood says: " He was a man of rare parts and of a deep wit, learned, full of courage, and most fnitliful to liis king and master. No man did ever carry himself in his place more wisely, nor sustain... | |
 | James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 204 pages
...to his memory. Spottiswoode describes him as " a man of rare parts, and of a deep wit, learned, and full of courage, and most faithful to his King and...man did ever carry himself in his place more wisely, nor sustain it more courageously against his enemies." 50. ALEXANDER, LORD HOME, who had rendered good... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1867 - 772 pages
...and amiahle dispositiou. Spotswood says: "He was a man of rare parts and of a deep wit, learned, fall of courage, and most faithful to his king and master. No man lid ever carry himself in his place more wisely, not snstain it more courageously against his enemies."... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1893 - 374 pages
...(1616-1682). Spottiswood thus sums up the character of Baron Maitland: " He was a man of rare parts, and of deep wit, learned, full of courage, and most faithful...man did ever carry himself in his place more wisely, nor sustain it more courageously against his enemies." l He was a great favourite with James VI., who... | |
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A man of rare parts, of a deep wit, learned, full of courage, and most faithful to his King and master. No man ever carried himself in his place more wisely nor sustained it more courageously against his enemies than he did. 