ARISE ✤ PRAY ✤ WORK
‘A true delineation, even of the smallest man, andhis scene of pilgrimage through life, is capable ofinteresting the greatest man; for all men are to anunspeakable degree brothers, each man’s life a strangeemblem of every man’s, and human portraits faithfullydrawn are, of all pictures, the welcomest onhuman walls.’ Carlyle.
Michaelmas 1885.
In the Biographical Sketches containedin this volume, I havepursued the same system as inmy two former Catalogues, of theGalleries of Hinchingbrook and Longleat,—devotingespecial attention to the immediatemembers, or to personages in any way connectedwith the family in question. In the historicalcharacters, I have purposely made the detailsof public and official life (which are elsewhererecorded) subservient to those of a private andIXdomestic nature, although it is obv