 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...king, as to be intrusted with almost the sole administration of public affairs. Warham, says Burnet, always hated cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop...to him, esteeming it below the dignity of his see. Erasmus relates of Warham, that it was his custom to wear plain apparel, and that once when Henry VIII.... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...king, as to be intrusted with almost the sole administration of public affairs. Warham, says Biirnet, always hated cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop to him, esteeming it belgvv the dignity of Iiis see. Erasmus relates of Warham, that it was his custom to wear plain apparel,... | |
 | David William Garrow - Canterbury (England) - 1818 - 452 pages
...and of our Translation the third." See also Lynwood, Provinciale, Ox. Edit, p. 75, ad fin. Ducarefs Additions to the History of Croydon. * Of this prelate...courtier, and a favourer of learned men. He always liiitcd Cardinal Wolsey, and would never sloop to him, esteeming it below the dignity of his See. He... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1825 - 620 pages
...head and principal member. For Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, was dead since August (23) last year. He was a great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous...always hated cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop to biro, esteeming it below the dignity of his see. He was not so peevishly engaged to the learning of... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 298 pages
...historian however, in another part of his chief work, says of him, with much apparent fairness, that he was, "a great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous courtier, and a favourer of learned men : that he always hated Cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop to him, esteeming it below the dignity... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...historian however, in another part of his chief work, says of him, with much apparent fairness, that he was, " a great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous courtier, and a favourer of learned raen : that he always hated Cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop to him, esteeming it below the dignity... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 248 pages
...archbishop's influence, and ultimately drove him altogether from public life. Warham, says Burnet, always hated Cardinal Wolsey, and would never stoop...to him, esteeming it below the dignity of his see. Erasmus relates of Warham, that it was his custom to wear very plain apparel, and that when Wolsey... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1840 - 484 pages
...and shall only add the commendation id — laT"' given him by *ne reverend church historian : " That he was a great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous courtier, and a favourer of learned men. He was not so fancifully fond of the learning of the schools as some others, but encouraged a more generous... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1840 - 476 pages
...late reign, and shall only add the commendation given him by the reverend church historian : " That he was a great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous courtier, and a favourer of learned men. He was not so fancifully fond of the learning of the schools as some others, but encouraged a more generous... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - England - 1843 - 700 pages
...its head and principal member. For Warham, archbishop of Canterbury was dead since August last year. He was a' great canonist, an able statesman, a dexterous...schools as others were, but set up and encouraged a 208 BURNETS REFORMATION. more generous way of knowledge ; yet he was a severe persecutor of them whom... | |
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He was not so peevishly engaged to the learning of the schools as others were, but set up and encouraged a more generous way of knowledge ; yet he was a severe persecutor of those whom he thought heretics, and inclined to believe idle and fanatical people. 
