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5 days ago · Lord Holland was a wit, without a particle of ill nature, and a man of learning, without a taint of pedantry. His apprehension of anything good was unfailing; nothing worth observing and remarking ever escaped him.
Jun 30, 2015 · While many of his talks are well-known and frequently quoted, here are five of the best talks you’ve never heard by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland: 1. "Bourne Upon Eagles’ Wings". June 2, 1974 – BYU Fireside.
Shortly before he died, Lord Holland, learning that Selwyn had called, remarked: “The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up. If I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead,...
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century.
1 day ago · The Holland estate. The thick line denotes the extent of the estate in Kensington purchased by Lord Holland in 1768. Based on the Ordanance Survey of 1894–6. A survey undertaken in 1770 (fn. 41) shows that the extent of the Holland estate was 237 acres, including one nine-acre field on the Hammersmith side of the parish boundary.
Jun 6, 2020 · The famous Kingsgate follies on the eastern tip of Thanet – ‘ruined’ convents, chapels and castles constructed in the 1760s for Lord Holland, a disgraced politician – were exactly that, according to the poet Thomas Gray, who saw these ‘mouldering fanes’ as Holland’s judgment, or curse, on his disloyal friends.
Feb 25, 1996 · Holland is a Byron scholar, and absolutely seamless in commingling the fictional cosmology of a vardoulacha--a vampire, in Greek--with the known events of Byron’s life, down to the masterly use...
