Item #80566 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. Eustace Budgell.
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES; CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY, FROM THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO THE PRESENT TIMES; EXTRACTED FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS NEVER YET PRINTED. WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE EARL OF ORRERY AND THE REVEREND DOCTOR BENTLEY; AND SOME SELECT LETTERS OF PHALARIS, THE FAMOUS SICILIAN TYRANT; TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.

London. W. Mears, 1732. Second Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo, 7.8 in. x 4.8 in., pp. xl, 258, [6] (advertising). Illustrated with frontis of Charles Boyle. Full panel calf with covers blindstamped in decorative tooled frames. Gilt title, five raised bands, and gilt fleurons in each panel. Front cover present, but detached. Rubbing to extremities. Spine caps and title panel on spine chipped; gilt on spine well-rubbed. Previous owner's signatures, dated 1770, to front free endpaper. Ink note in margin of p. xxiv. Clean copy internally with tight spine. Good Minus. Item #80566

Eustace Budgell (1686 -1737) was an English writer who,was a principal contributor to The Spectator. In 1710, his cousin, then secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, offered Budgell a clerkship; and until 1718 Budgell filled many posts with considerable ability. Meanwhile, after perhaps helping with The Tatler, he wrote his Spectator papers and a few for The Guardian. In 1718, when the Duke of Bolton became lord lieutenant, Budgell quarreled with him and was dismissed. His difficulties were aggravated by the loss of £20,000 in the South Sea Bubble, an incident involving the South Sea (trading) Company and the wild speculation of a number of investors. Budgell wrote libels against Sir Robert Walpole in the antigovernmental Craftsman and founded his own weekly, the Bee (1733–35), which ran to 100 numbers, many filled with vainglorious self-justification. Disliked by many, Budgell was criticized by Alexander Pope in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and in The Dunciad. His last years were spent in litigation concerning a will that he may have forged, making him beneficiary. Finally, Budgell weighted his pockets with stones and drowned himself. (from Brittanica)

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1674 – 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences.... Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical Solar System model that could demonstrate proportional motion of the planets around the Sun. The device was named the "orrery" in the Earl's honour.

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