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Hereditary Genius
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Cecil, William, continued—
S. Robert Cecil, who was created Earl of Salisbury the same day that his elder
brother was created Earl of Exeter. He was of weakly constitution and
deformed. Succeeded his father as Prime Minister under Elizabeth, and
afterwards under James I.; was unquestionably the ablest minister of his time,
but cold-hearted and selfish. Lord Bacon was uS. to him.
[B.] 1st Earl of Exeter.
[F.] Master of the Robes to Henry VIII.
Colbert, Jean Baptiste; French statesman and financier (Louis XIV.); eminent for
the encouragement he gave to public works and institutions, to commerce and
manufactures. He was fully appreciated in his early life by Mazarin, who
recommended him as his successor. He became minister aet. 49, and used to
work for sixteen hours a day. His family gave many distinguished servants to
France.
U. Odart; a merchant who became a considerable financier.
B. Charles; statesman and diplomatist.
S. Jean Baptiste; statesman; intelligent and firm of purpose; commanded, when still
a mere youth, the expedition against Genoa in 1684.
S. Jacques Nicholas, archbishop; member of the Academy.
N. Jean Baptiste (son of Charles); diplomatist.
N. Charles Joachim; prelate.
The family continued to show ability in the succeeding generation.
Cromwell, Oliver; Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
US. Hampden the patriot, whom Lord Clarendon speaks of as having “a head to
contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief;”—this
word “mischief” meaning, of course, antagonism to the King.
Up. Edmund Waller, the poet, a man of very considerable abilities both in
parliamentary eloquence and in poetry, but he was not over-stedfast in
principle. He was n. to Hampden.
S. Henry; behaved with gallantry in the army, and acted with much distinction in
Ireland as Lord Deputy. He had one other son and four daughters, who married
able men, but their descendants were not remarkable. The Cromwell breed has
been of much less importance
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